Hello everyone,
please bear with me as I'm not very good with ftp and doing things on the web, I'm a total noob really I guess but need to learn the basics. I have a extremely basic website that I use Coppermine 1.4.10 for a photo gallery, I used coppermine in the first place just because the hosting company already had it loaded as one of the programs I could use.
I have been extremely lazy and not done anything with the site for years (hey it always worked lol) and had lost interest, but would now like to renew the site and start being more active with it and learning to manage it correctly and just looking after it. I'm not sure if I should upgrade to the current coppermine and continue to use it or just try to use a flickr account somehow showing my galleries on my site or just a hotlink to my flickr gallery.
I know one will be simpler for me with my limited (ok pretty much zero at this point) knowledge of all things web/ftp/coppermine but I can't help but feel I liked the way coppermine gallery looked/worked before and feel it would look more professional to have my own galleries rather than just linking to a free image site.
The old version on my site has issues (not surprising) and a error code coming up and none of the images show anymore (most likely a different problem or security etc) so if I want to continue using coppermine how is the best way to upgrade or load the newest version or where is best to read/learn about how to do so keeping in mind I have very little understanding..so like a idiots guide that's simple as to follow so I can fix/update and get things happening again.
Or is it unrealistic for someone as dumb as myself to try managing/having a basic website and image gallery and should I just stick to putting imaes on photobucket/flickr etc? Any help at all would be wonderful, many thanks in advance.