automatically generate html pages?

[soboyle]

I currently have a html web photo gallery, and would like to bring it up to another level, I would like to enable things like links from each photograph to download different sized screensavers images, a link to purchase prints of various sizes, perhaps a link to exif information. To do this in html would take a lot of time doing repeatitive tasks for each photograph. Is there a scripting program that would do something like this for me in a somewhat automatic fashion, ie set up a page with photographs in place and links. I would prefer to keep the final pages in html, so that they can be indexed by the search engines. With my current knowledge the only way I can see to do this is to manually create these links for each photograph from each html page, there has to be a better way!

[soboyle]

It seems like I will be doing a complete redesign of my website, so any suggestions of a CMS or other approachs that would get me to my goal would be welcome. I built my site myself over a few years, so don't mind diving into something new, especially with this forum here to help.

To reiterate (and add to) my goals;
-search capability to find photographs
-some way to automate generation of pages with links to high res wallpaper of that photo.
- integration of subscription service to site, so premium content can be viewed by members seperately.
- integrate shopping cart for each individual photograph so each photo can be sold at different print sizes.

[mack]

You might need to use more than one app to accomplish this. Maybe a cms to actually hold the smaller images and explanation/description pages and another script as the shopping cart. Linking from your CMS to your cart may be a good way to go about this.

As for recommendations, I cant think of anything offhand that is exactly what you are looking for. Maybe you should test as many CMS systems as possible then decide what needs to be changed. Then you may be able to hire a coder to make any required modifications, or carry out the work yourself.

[opensourcecms.com...] may be a good place to start.

Mack.

Mack.

[soboyle]

I'm currently looking at aMember to handle the subscription service to my site, I will check out some of the CMS options out there, I know my isp offers Drupal, Joomla, Mambo and others in fantastico. I would like to get it all done this time around, rather than make compromises and fix it later.
I'm still not clear what exactly a CMS is, so will have to do some homework. I assume it would allow keywording of files for search capabilities, or perhaps extraction of exif data. I would prefer to keep some of my pages in html, for speed and indexing by search engines, but perhaps I can't have it both ways > search capabilities.