Photobook for Website

[markfwalters]

Hi, brand new hear so please bear with me.

I am in the process of building out a website and one of the features/products I will be offering is a photobook with the ability for clients to upload images to specific templates. This is the key feature as the photobook is specific to these designs/templates. I'm scouring the web looking for ways for me to accomplish this and have yet to find a solution which leads me here, as they say if you want something done then do it yourself. My questions is what software should I purchase and then learn in order to accomplish this and also if anyone knows other solutions please let me know....

All help is appreciated....

Mark Walters

[rob day]

There's no InDesign feature that would help you with that—ID is a (mostly) print pagelayout application. Seems like you would start with a content management system like WordPress where there might be a plugin that would take uploads, other than that it would take some fairly advanced coding.

[markfwalters]

Thanks Rob,

Yes,  I have the wordpress site and it is up and running, this component I am speaking about is on top of the website itself ... I've searched through all the plugins and have yet to find.

[Jeffrey_Smith · Accepted solution]

By searching "web to print" you will find numerous online solutions that provide everything from the e-commerce/ordering up to the tools to create the studio for visitors to upload images and customize content. Here is one that include a photobook solution.

[markfwalters]

Jeffrey, yes I have seen these and have searched in this manner "web to print" there are a few I have had preliminary discussions with, do you use the one you referred?

[Jeffrey_Smith]

No, I have not worked with that particular solution. But our company does work with a few "Web to Print" solution providers, one is PageDNA. My observation with this solution is that a non-programmer can create a basic portal for online content customization, but to develop more comprehensive or dynamic features to site, it is essential that you have a good understanding of Python.

[markfwalters]

Thank you so much for your time and input, you've definitely helped me in this regard...