Photo library development

What kind of backend do I need?

[cereus]

Hi Folks, I have a question about the development of a photo library site which I am currently planning.

The site is to be a image bank of photography which will include tutorials on digital imaging.
I have experience in creating vanilla html sites in DWeaver, but have no experience of 'dynamic' sites. i will need to alter the content of my tutorials frequently as well as offer thumbnails & downloads of my images. Eventually I would like to attract fellow photographers to post their images with the aim of selling them on.

I would like to build this myself, I have the time but not the knowledge...the question is where do i start?

Thanks in advance
C

[mack]

I think the way to go is to develop a content mangement solution. When I say develop, you might want to start from scratch or use one that is already in existance and modify it to your requirements.

A very simple CMS is easily acheivable with php, perl or any other scripting language. Developing a cms will be a challenge but worth it in the long term.

A cms taylored to your website is not really a lot different from a normal php site. except it will have an admin area where you can control the actual content.

The simplest form of cms would be one where the page has a header.php main.php and footer.php.

Main.php uses content that is gets from a text file. the text file is written from a form within your admin area.

As I say this is a very simple example, and the real thing will need a lot more.

There are a lot of free content management solutions out there. try a web search for "open source cms"

Hope this helps.

Mack.