Creating Album from HTML pages?

[Delphi123]

Dear friends:

I am completing a jewelry site called Immortal Gems at:

http://www.immortalgems.com

This site is an affiliate of Mondera Jewelers. Mondera has made it possible for its affiliates to generate an album (showcase) of their jewelry. You can see some of the results at the bottom of each of the main pages (see menu above -- Home Page, Diamonds, Jewelry, Weddings and Catalogue). The Catalogue page will feature albums of Mondera's jewelry by individual section (see oval menu at top called "Showcase") as well as a complete catalogue with a link in the middle of the page right next to the Showcase menu.

Here's my problem: A complete catalogue of Mondera's offerings includes around 1,200 items in 4 columns (800 pixels) on 100+ HTML pages. The individual sections will include around 10-20 HTML pages per section. I talked to Mondera about this. They said that currently there is no way to generate an AUTOMATIC album with HTML navigational links, etc. for all of their items (in the manner of Photoshop's or Fireworks' album, etc.). It must be done MANUALLY, which means stitching together the 100+ HTML pages (each with 12 items). This is not that difficult to do. I am sure my Dreamweaver can do it. However, before I proceed, I would like to know if there is some sort of script that can do this. Is there some way to do this automatically? Obviously in an album application, you put all the images in a directory, then select them all and in an instant you have a great album of everything. However, here I can't separate the images from the descriptions, codes, etc. I have to work NOT with images as building blocks but with HTML pages with the images and codes, etc. all prepared. Is there a way to do this?

Thank you all so much.

Benjamin

[renegade600]

I used to have a photoalbum in my website. I would use a program called thumbsplus (http://www.cerious.com/). It is not free but with it you can select a group of photos and it will auto the pages for you.

You can also do the database thing for photos where you have a page and it will auto do the pages you need. I do not know enough about this way and I believe it is more in line of what you want/need. Someone else will have to help here.

[Delphi123]

Dear Dan:

Thanks so much for your suggestion. You have been a great help on many occasions in the past. Let me take this opportunity to express my sincere appreciation.

My problem here is that I need to create an album using HTML pages, NOT images as such. That's the challenge. Hope someone can shed light on this.

Meanwhile, let me recommend a great freeware album program called Jalbum. It's available from CNET (http://www.cnet.com), Downloads. The current version is 4.6 and it's around 10 meg plus.


Benjamin

[Steven.Bentley]

This sounds like a job for a multifile find/replace to me using something like BK replace 'em. With that, you can find a bit of text which appears in all of the files where you'd like the nav to go (but doesn't appear anywhere else in the page) and do a replace on that, replacing with itself and the nav tagged onto the end.

[Delphi123]

Dear Steven.Bentley:

http://www.immortalgems.com

Thanks so much for your help.

I downloaded Replace'em. It's freeware. I am sure I could use it somewhere along the line, if not for this project. First I have to learn how to use it.

Here's is what I've done so far:

I went ahead and created a showcase of ten pages of jewelry items for the Pearls section of the oval Showcase menu on the top left. This showcase is located under


http://www.immortalgems.com/Pearl/
http://www.immortalgems.com/Pearl/Pearl-01.html


Pearl-01.html, Pearl-02.html, etc.

All I need is to connect them with navigational buttons. Once I do that I can link the "Pearls" link on the menu to the first page of the actual showcase.

Two problems remain:

1) Can you suggest how I would use Replace'em to create the navigational structure and/or buttons? Or can I use Dreamweaver?

2) The showcase, like any album, will need a navigational guide at the bottom of the page so that visitors can click on each of the ten pages forming the showcase (1,2,3,4,5, etc.). How do I do that?

If I can do these two things, I will have solved the problem.

Thank you so much.

Benjamin