Setting up a Picture Submit Site, Advice Needed

[Bozena X]

Allright here is the deal, I need to create a site that will allow people to upload pictures, perhaps in catagories. After uploaded, I need the server to display the photos on which ever page it was catagorized with. It would be very cool if the website could have the uploaded photo, and a smaller version of a photo available too, for dial up users. I know that I will end up having to do that most likely, but If it were easy enough to setup that would be awesome.

So, my question is this. I am experienced with setting up websites, have plenty of experience with dreamweaver enough so to design the site so on. But image uploading and creating pages that recall images via a catagory are foreign to me.

I was thinking of doing this via wordpress, are there any plugins that you might know of? Where should I go to get this done. If I need to program it, could it be done for < 100$?

Just curious on how to go about getting this setup. Thanks in advance for any help.

[karlcore]

Short answer: You cannot do this with just Dreamweaver.
You need a database and you need a way to make those smaller images.

The good news is, this is painfully easy to do with PHP & MySQL.

I've programmed photo galleries in the past. You take the submitted photo at any size the person gives you. Then, you make PHP execute a specific Imagemagick command (it comes with most Linux distributions these days) to generate the "safe size" (meaning a full-size image that won't blow apart your page) and another copy that's just the thumbnail.

I could do all this for you, but it would have to be more than $100.

[Twoface31]

in short you need a PHP programmer to do your website

[essentialeo]

If you decided to use Perl instead of php, look into using Image::Magick.