Re: Web Hosting: PBase or Photo.net?
In a message dated 4/10/2007 9:28:20 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As an aside question: my cheapskate challenge entry: http://boris.isra-shop.com/misc/cheapskate.html - was it sufficiently unclattered? Also comparing the above content with, say, this link: http://boris.isra-shop.com/shfaim/content/IGP01583_large.html can someone please tell me what is wrong with the latter? I am serious here. I do want to establish a standard way to present my work that will be acceptable to the widest crowd possible. Thanks. Boris Both are fine. I prefer, personally, the second. Because I like dark backgrounds for photos on the web. In real life I like off white mats for pictures, but on the web I find dark backgrounds less distracting. In other words, if it was me I'd make your gray darker. But that is me. HTH, Marnie aka Doe ** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Web Hosting: PBase or Photo.net?
My annual subscription is coming up on PBase and I'm considering a possible change of service. For those of you who have used Photo.net, how do you like it ? I'm overall somewhat satisfied with PBase, but sometimes find it gets bogged down with slow uploading and some folks don't seem to be able to view links back to my photos. The upload feature of selecting a single .zip files of multiple pictures is nice as well as the Style Sheets and galleries functions. I'd like to find out more about Photo.net though. I have a limited account already, but wonder how the paid service compares to PBase and some of the others. Thanks, JayT -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: Web Hosting: PBase or Photo.net?
I've had an account on Photo.net forever, but I generally dislike their album/display tools. Same goes for most of the picture hosting commercial websites. That's why I build my own pages and lease my own web server, or use .Mac ... G On Apr 10, 2007, at 8:12 AM, Jay Taylor wrote: My annual subscription is coming up on PBase and I'm considering a possible change of service. For those of you who have used Photo.net, how do you like it ? I'm overall somewhat satisfied with PBase, but sometimes find it gets bogged down with slow uploading and some folks don't seem to be able to view links back to my photos. The upload feature of selecting a single .zip files of multiple pictures is nice as well as the Style Sheets and galleries functions. I'd like to find out more about Photo.net though. I have a limited account already, but wonder how the paid service compares to PBase and some of the others. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: Web Hosting: PBase or Photo.net?
I've been using photo.net for quite a few years. It's fast and easy. I'm quite satisfied with it, and it includes a large community. So feedback is never a problem. Paul On Apr 10, 2007, at 8:12 AM, Jay Taylor wrote: My annual subscription is coming up on PBase and I'm considering a possible change of service. For those of you who have used Photo.net, how do you like it ? I'm overall somewhat satisfied with PBase, but sometimes find it gets bogged down with slow uploading and some folks don't seem to be able to view links back to my photos. The upload feature of selecting a single .zip files of multiple pictures is nice as well as the Style Sheets and galleries functions. I'd like to find out more about Photo.net though. I have a limited account already, but wonder how the paid service compares to PBase and some of the others. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: Web Hosting: PBase or Photo.net?
Many, if not most, ISPs offer free or very inexpensive, space on their systems for subscribers. I put my pics up on the Earthlink servers and it works just fine for me. Earthlink allows me to have eight mailboxes, and each mailbox comes with a certain amount of free space which I use for hosting pics and galleries. The total is not a huge amount of space, but since it's only used for posting pics, it's been adequate for my needs for years. Total cost = $0.00 All I needed to know how to access the space and a few simple lines of HTML code that allows me to post the pics in the manner I prefer, essentially using the same code for every pic. While I can write the code for my own galleries - it's really simple and easy to do, there are many free programs out there that can do it for you, such as Porta, the program Godders uses (I think he said it's free) and several of the image editing programs, like Photoshop, will create galleries with a variety of features and designs. Unless your ISP doesn't allow you any free space, I see no reason to used Photonet or other such hosts. Shel [Original Message] From: Godfrey DiGiorgi I've had an account on Photo.net forever, but I generally dislike their album/display tools. Same goes for most of the picture hosting commercial websites. That's why I build my own pages and lease my own web server, or use .Mac ... G On Apr 10, 2007, at 8:12 AM, Jay Taylor wrote: My annual subscription is coming up on PBase and I'm considering a possible change of service. For those of you who have used Photo.net, how do you like it ? I'm overall somewhat satisfied with PBase, but sometimes find it gets bogged down with slow uploading . and some folks don't seem to be able to view links back to my photos. The upload feature of selecting a single .zip files of multiple pictures is nice as well as the Style Sheets and galleries functions. I'd like to find out more about Photo.net though. I have a limited account already, but wonder how the paid service compares to PBase and some of the others. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: Web Hosting: PBase or Photo.net?
Jay Taylor wrote: My annual subscription is coming up on PBase and I'm considering a possible change of service. For those of you who have used Photo.net, how do you like it ? I'm overall somewhat satisfied with PBase, but sometimes find it gets bogged down with slow uploading and some folks don't seem to be able to view links back to my photos. The upload feature of selecting a single .zip files of multiple pictures is nice as well as the Style Sheets and galleries functions. I'd like to find out more about Photo.net though. I have a limited account already, but wonder how the paid service compares to PBase and some of the others. Thanks, JayT Jay, I am really loving smugmug - check that out - and if you do and mention me (annsan.smugmug.com) I get a small bit of moolah and you get a discount too. I've never gotten such fast responses in email to questions and they are very nice and helpful - the themes are nice and depending on the type of account you have you can do a lot of customizing... I've barely scratched the surface there. The general link to them is just www.smugmug.com ann -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: Web Hosting: PBase or Photo.net?
Because I work all day in the IT field and I'm loathe to write one single line of HTML code. I like photography, not more programming when I'm not working. Or call me lazy. Someday I will likely have my own gallery, but until then photo.net works fine for easily and quickly displaying images. It's not ideal, but it's close enough for the time being. Tom C. From: Shel Belinkoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Subject: Re: Web Hosting: PBase or Photo.net? Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 10:56:28 -0700 Unless your ISP doesn't allow you any free space, I see no reason to used Photonet or other such hosts. Shel [Original Message] From: Godfrey DiGiorgi I've had an account on Photo.net forever, but I generally dislike their album/display tools. Same goes for most of the picture hosting commercial websites. That's why I build my own pages and lease my own web server, or use .Mac ... G On Apr 10, 2007, at 8:12 AM, Jay Taylor wrote: My annual subscription is coming up on PBase and I'm considering a possible change of service. For those of you who have used Photo.net, how do you like it ? I'm overall somewhat satisfied with PBase, but sometimes find it gets bogged down with slow uploading . and some folks don't seem to be able to view links back to my photos. The upload feature of selecting a single .zip files of multiple pictures is nice as well as the Style Sheets and galleries functions. I'd like to find out more about Photo.net though. I have a limited account already, but wonder how the paid service compares to PBase and some of the others. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: Web Hosting: PBase or Photo.net?
I am mostly like you, Tom. So I chose not.contaxg.com. It is free of charge. It allows multiple downloads and very convenient system of folders. But since recently I am leaning towards buying my own domain and making there my own very simple web page. Boris Tom C wrote: Because I work all day in the IT field and I'm loathe to write one single line of HTML code. I like photography, not more programming when I'm not working. Or call me lazy. Someday I will likely have my own gallery, but until then photo.net works fine for easily and quickly displaying images. It's not ideal, but it's close enough for the time being. Tom C. From: Shel Belinkoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Subject: Re: Web Hosting: PBase or Photo.net? Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 10:56:28 -0700 Unless your ISP doesn't allow you any free space, I see no reason to used Photonet or other such hosts. Shel [Original Message] From: Godfrey DiGiorgi I've had an account on Photo.net forever, but I generally dislike their album/display tools. Same goes for most of the picture hosting commercial websites. That's why I build my own pages and lease my own web server, or use .Mac ... G On Apr 10, 2007, at 8:12 AM, Jay Taylor wrote: My annual subscription is coming up on PBase and I'm considering a possible change of service. For those of you who have used Photo.net, how do you like it ? I'm overall somewhat satisfied with PBase, but sometimes find it gets bogged down with slow uploading . and some folks don't seem to be able to view links back to my photos. The upload feature of selecting a single .zip files of multiple pictures is nice as well as the Style Sheets and galleries functions. I'd like to find out more about Photo.net though. I have a limited account already, but wonder how the paid service compares to PBase and some of the others. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: Web Hosting: PBase or Photo.net?
Hi Boris, I've had my own domain for 7 years and still haven't got a gallery up. Now that's lazy! :-) Tom C. From: Boris Liberman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Subject: Re: Web Hosting: PBase or Photo.net? Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 21:09:36 +0300 I am mostly like you, Tom. So I chose not.contaxg.com. It is free of charge. It allows multiple downloads and very convenient system of folders. But since recently I am leaning towards buying my own domain and making there my own very simple web page. Boris Tom C wrote: Because I work all day in the IT field and I'm loathe to write one single line of HTML code. I like photography, not more programming when I'm not working. Or call me lazy. Someday I will likely have my own gallery, but until then photo.net works fine for easily and quickly displaying images. It's not ideal, but it's close enough for the time being. Tom C. From: Shel Belinkoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Subject: Re: Web Hosting: PBase or Photo.net? Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 10:56:28 -0700 Unless your ISP doesn't allow you any free space, I see no reason to used Photonet or other such hosts. Shel [Original Message] From: Godfrey DiGiorgi I've had an account on Photo.net forever, but I generally dislike their album/display tools. Same goes for most of the picture hosting commercial websites. That's why I build my own pages and lease my own web server, or use .Mac ... G On Apr 10, 2007, at 8:12 AM, Jay Taylor wrote: My annual subscription is coming up on PBase and I'm considering a possible change of service. For those of you who have used Photo.net, how do you like it ? I'm overall somewhat satisfied with PBase, but sometimes find it gets bogged down with slow uploading . and some folks don't seem to be able to view links back to my photos. The upload feature of selecting a single .zip files of multiple pictures is nice as well as the Style Sheets and galleries functions. I'd like to find out more about Photo.net though. I have a limited account already, but wonder how the paid service compares to PBase and some of the others. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: Web Hosting: PBase or Photo.net?
Hi Tom, I can certainly understand your POV, and far be it from me to dissuade you. I'd like to point out one other thing: Once the three or four lines of code were written, there was no need to write any more code for subsequent pics, and, had I chosen to do so, I could have set things up just to post the pics without any code whatsoever. Boris, I find your picture posting site just too busy, which, IMO, takes away from a good, simple presentation which focuses on the photograph. Your pics - and the pics of many others on the PDML - can benefit from better, simpler presentations. I mentioned Godders setup for his gallery as being a good one. While his setup for single pics is also good in many ways, there are some other presentations I like quite a bit. Bruce Dayton's pics are nicely and simply presented with a consistent format, and I can always count on being able to concentrate on his photos rather than being distracted by peripheral things in the presentation. There are some other presentations that I like as well. Bill Robb seems to have simple and direct presentations. As an aside, it was Bill who showed me how easy it was to put pics up the way I wanted them to appear, quite a few years ago ;-)) Shel [Original Message] From: Boris Liberman [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am mostly like you, Tom. So I chose not.contaxg.com. It is free of charge. It allows multiple downloads and very convenient system of folders. But since recently I am leaning towards buying my own domain and making there my own very simple web page. Boris Tom C wrote: Because I work all day in the IT field and I'm loathe to write one single line of HTML code. I like photography, not more programming when I'm not working. Or call me lazy. Someday I will likely have my own gallery, but until then photo.net works fine for easily and quickly displaying images. It's not ideal, but it's close enough for the time being. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: Web Hosting: PBase or Photo.net?
On Apr 10, 2007, at 10:56 AM, Shel Belinkoff wrote: ... the program Godders uses (I think he said it's free) ... Shel, I think you're mistaking the way I wrote simple HTML using the Mac OS X included TextEdit application for the cheapskates thread as what I normally use to write HTML. Editors with HTML tools and HTML generators pose a significant advantage over writing from scratch with a simple text editor or word processor. Normally I use a pro-quality source code editor (BBEdit, for those who would like a good one on Mac OS X...): it includes a lot of excellent HTML constructs and is language-context sensitive so it helps keep me from making gross mistakes in syntax. I use Photoshop, Lightroom and iView MediaPro to generate HTML templates for more complex presentation layouts. I don't use them very much. iView's HTML code is simpler, generally, and easier to edit. Unlike some, I enjoy writing HTML occasionally. It's so much nicer to do it with good tools... ;-) G -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: Web Hosting: PBase or Photo.net?
Hi, You posted two galleries before the cheapskate thread, both of which used a horizontal format. One was the window mannequins, the other was mostly (or completely) of trees, iirc. I thought those were with some template that you used. In any case, those presentations were simple, direct, easy to maneuver through Shel [Original Message] From: Godfrey DiGiorgi I think you're mistaking the way I wrote simple HTML using the Mac OS X included TextEdit application for the cheapskates thread as what I normally use to write HTML. Editors with HTML tools and HTML generators pose a significant advantage over writing from scratch with a simple text editor or word processor. Normally I use a pro-quality source code editor (BBEdit, for those who would like a good one on Mac OS X...): it includes a lot of excellent HTML constructs and is language-context sensitive so it helps keep me from making gross mistakes in syntax. I use Photoshop, Lightroom and iView MediaPro to generate HTML templates for more complex presentation layouts. I don't use them very much. iView's HTML code is simpler, generally, and easier to edit. Unlike some, I enjoy writing HTML occasionally. It's so much nicer to do it with good tools... ;-) G -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: Web Hosting: PBase or Photo.net?
html ain't programming. Tom C wrote: Because I work all day in the IT field and I'm loathe to write one single line of HTML code. I like photography, not more programming when I'm not working. Or call me lazy. Someday I will likely have my own gallery, but until then photo.net works fine for easily and quickly displaying images. It's not ideal, but it's close enough for the time being. Tom C. From: Shel Belinkoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Subject: Re: Web Hosting: PBase or Photo.net? Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 10:56:28 -0700 Unless your ISP doesn't allow you any free space, I see no reason to used Photonet or other such hosts. Shel [Original Message] From: Godfrey DiGiorgi I've had an account on Photo.net forever, but I generally dislike their album/display tools. Same goes for most of the picture hosting commercial websites. That's why I build my own pages and lease my own web server, or use .Mac ... G On Apr 10, 2007, at 8:12 AM, Jay Taylor wrote: My annual subscription is coming up on PBase and I'm considering a possible change of service. For those of you who have used Photo.net, how do you like it ? I'm overall somewhat satisfied with PBase, but sometimes find it gets bogged down with slow uploading . and some folks don't seem to be able to view links back to my photos. The upload feature of selecting a single .zip files of multiple pictures is nice as well as the Style Sheets and galleries functions. I'd like to find out more about Photo.net though. I have a limited account already, but wonder how the paid service compares to PBase and some of the others. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- Entropy Seminar: The results of a five yeer studee ntu the sekend lw uf thurmodynamiks aand itz inevibl fxt hon shewb rt nslpn raq liot. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: Web Hosting: PBase or Photo.net?
It's close enough... Tom C. From: P. J. Alling [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Subject: Re: Web Hosting: PBase or Photo.net? Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 16:24:42 -0400 html ain't programming. Tom C wrote: Because I work all day in the IT field and I'm loathe to write one single line of HTML code. I like photography, not more programming when I'm not working. Or call me lazy. Someday I will likely have my own gallery, but until then photo.net works fine for easily and quickly displaying images. It's not ideal, but it's close enough for the time being. Tom C. From: Shel Belinkoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Subject: Re: Web Hosting: PBase or Photo.net? Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 10:56:28 -0700 Unless your ISP doesn't allow you any free space, I see no reason to used Photonet or other such hosts. Shel [Original Message] From: Godfrey DiGiorgi I've had an account on Photo.net forever, but I generally dislike their album/display tools. Same goes for most of the picture hosting commercial websites. That's why I build my own pages and lease my own web server, or use .Mac ... G On Apr 10, 2007, at 8:12 AM, Jay Taylor wrote: My annual subscription is coming up on PBase and I'm considering a possible change of service. For those of you who have used Photo.net, how do you like it ? I'm overall somewhat satisfied with PBase, but sometimes find it gets bogged down with slow uploading . and some folks don't seem to be able to view links back to my photos. The upload feature of selecting a single .zip files of multiple pictures is nice as well as the Style Sheets and galleries functions. I'd like to find out more about Photo.net though. I have a limited account already, but wonder how the paid service compares to PBase and some of the others. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- Entropy Seminar: The results of a five yeer studee ntu the sekend lw uf thurmodynamiks aand itz inevibl fxt hon shewb rt nslpn raq liot. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: Web Hosting: PBase or Photo.net?
I'll second Shel on that. I use earthlink as well, and you get a total of 80mb divided over 8 sites. Plenty of space to put up a lot of web sized photos. There are also free hosting sites you could look into. You can use your own html and hot link photos you store on quite a few of them, if you so desire. Shel Belinkoff wrote: Many, if not most, ISPs offer free or very inexpensive, space on their systems for subscribers. I put my pics up on the Earthlink servers and it works just fine for me. Earthlink allows me to have eight mailboxes, and each mailbox comes with a certain amount of free space which I use for hosting pics and galleries. The total is not a huge amount of space, but since it's only used for posting pics, it's been adequate for my needs for years. Total cost = $0.00 All I needed to know how to access the space and a few simple lines of HTML code that allows me to post the pics in the manner I prefer, essentially using the same code for every pic. While I can write the code for my own galleries - it's really simple and easy to do, there are many free programs out there that can do it for you, such as Porta, the program Godders uses (I think he said it's free) and several of the image editing programs, like Photoshop, will create galleries with a variety of features and designs. Unless your ISP doesn't allow you any free space, I see no reason to used Photonet or other such hosts. Shel [Original Message] From: Godfrey DiGiorgi I've had an account on Photo.net forever, but I generally dislike their album/display tools. Same goes for most of the picture hosting commercial websites. That's why I build my own pages and lease my own web server, or use .Mac ... G On Apr 10, 2007, at 8:12 AM, Jay Taylor wrote: My annual subscription is coming up on PBase and I'm considering a possible change of service. For those of you who have used Photo.net, how do you like it ? I'm overall somewhat satisfied with PBase, but sometimes find it gets bogged down with slow uploading . and some folks don't seem to be able to view links back to my photos. The upload feature of selecting a single .zip files of multiple pictures is nice as well as the Style Sheets and galleries functions. I'd like to find out more about Photo.net though. I have a limited account already, but wonder how the paid service compares to PBase and some of the others. -- Entropy Seminar: The results of a five yeer studee ntu the sekend lw uf thurmodynamiks aand itz inevibl fxt hon shewb rt nslpn raq liot. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: Web Hosting: PBase or Photo.net?
Tom C wrote: From: P. J. Alling [EMAIL PROTECTED] html ain't programming. It's close enough... More importantly... it's just as much work :) Personally, I'm looking into getting some kind of database back end for the photo section of my web site. All the ones I've seen are quite expensive, though. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
RE: Web Hosting: PBase or Photo.net?
You're all making things too complicated. Use Lightroom. -- Bob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Roberts Sent: 10 April 2007 21:28 To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: Web Hosting: PBase or Photo.net? Tom C wrote: From: P. J. Alling [EMAIL PROTECTED] html ain't programming. It's close enough... More importantly... it's just as much work :) Personally, I'm looking into getting some kind of database back end for the photo section of my web site. All the ones I've seen are quite expensive, though. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: Web Hosting: PBase or Photo.net?
On Apr 10, 2007, at 2:23 PM, Bob W wrote: You're all making things too complicated. Use Lightroom. Yes, that works too. I find the presentation styles available a little fussier than I prefer, however. Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: Web Hosting: PBase or Photo.net?
On Apr 10, 2007, at 12:03 PM, Shel Belinkoff wrote: You posted two galleries before the cheapskate thread, both of which used a horizontal format. One was the window mannequins, the other was mostly (or completely) of trees, iirc. I thought those were with some template that you used. In any case, those presentations were simple, direct, easy to maneuver through AH, you're thinking about the Flash presentation software, Autoviewer by Airtight. Yes, that's a free utility available from http://www.airtightinteractive.com/projects/autoviewer/ It does require some setup editing and it requires that you have a web server somewhere to put your photos on to use it. Once you do, however, it can be pretty easy to just load pictures and the associated XML control file as desired. I've got it in use on my photo website in most of the recent collections ... for instance, on http://www.gdgphoto.com/TOF/index.html there's a link to an Autoviewer presentation of the images just below the words Thumbnail Gallery. Godfrey www.gdgphoto.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: Web Hosting: PBase or Photo.net?
It really depends on how much work you want to put into it. I can produce a very quick html gallery with almost no work at all. Much easier than trying to do something that looks custom in VB, VC or Java. Mark Roberts wrote: Tom C wrote: From: P. J. Alling [EMAIL PROTECTED] html ain't programming. It's close enough... More importantly... it's just as much work :) Personally, I'm looking into getting some kind of database back end for the photo section of my web site. All the ones I've seen are quite expensive, though. -- Entropy Seminar: The results of a five yeer studee ntu the sekend lw uf thurmodynamiks aand itz inevibl fxt hon shewb rt nslpn raq liot. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
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Bob W wrote: You're all making things too complicated. Use Lightroom. I don't think that would fill my need for a web server database... -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: Web Hosting: PBase or Photo.net?
P. J. Alling wrote: It really depends on how much work you want to put into it. I can produce a very quick html gallery with almost no work at all. Much easier than trying to do something that looks custom in VB, VC or Java. I want to be able to run queries, though. To bring up all photos of wildlife, for example. Or BW. Or landscapes, or abstracts. Or whatever. With formatting set up so all I have to do is drop the images into a directory and assign keywords, etc. Such applications do exist, but they're pricey from what I've seen. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
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Porta includes a Flash option called SimpleViewer, which is an iteration of Godfrey's Autoviewer. When you first view the site it offers the option of viewing in HTML if you don't have Flash installed. There is a bug in the SimpleViewer crop/fit options for thumbnails - if you choose fit the program errors out and closes. Either the crop option or no thumbnails option work fine. You can run Porta on Linux using Wine. An example is here... http://home.earthlink.net/~allaround6/calbirthday/ -P Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: On Apr 10, 2007, at 12:03 PM, Shel Belinkoff wrote: You posted two galleries before the cheapskate thread, both of which used a horizontal format. One was the window mannequins, the other was mostly (or completely) of trees, iirc. I thought those were with some template that you used. In any case, those presentations were simple, direct, easy to maneuver through AH, you're thinking about the Flash presentation software, Autoviewer by Airtight. Yes, that's a free utility available from http://www.airtightinteractive.com/projects/autoviewer/ It does require some setup editing and it requires that you have a web server somewhere to put your photos on to use it. Once you do, however, it can be pretty easy to just load pictures and the associated XML control file as desired. I've got it in use on my photo website in most of the recent collections ... for instance, on http://www.gdgphoto.com/TOF/index.html there's a link to an Autoviewer presentation of the images just below the words Thumbnail Gallery. Godfrey www.gdgphoto.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
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Hi! I agree with what Godfrey says. I also like, or to be more precise, don't mind, writing HTML directly. As of recently I've found the PageBreeze editor to be the best tool for me. It allows WYSIWYG editing and direct HTML code editing with very easy interface. However, I am too lazy and too disorganized to properly maintain all the necessary things. Let me just notice that the last time I updated my web page before most recent burst was Sept 2006 and before that Mar 2005. I most definitely like the Web tool that LightRoom has. I may want to take a closer look at customization as per Shel's comments. As an aside question: my cheapskate challenge entry: http://boris.isra-shop.com/misc/cheapskate.html - was it sufficiently unclattered? Also comparing the above content with, say, this link: http://boris.isra-shop.com/shfaim/content/IGP01583_large.html can someone please tell me what is wrong with the latter? I am serious here. I do want to establish a standard way to present my work that will be acceptable to the widest crowd possible. Thanks. Boris Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: On Apr 10, 2007, at 10:56 AM, Shel Belinkoff wrote: ... the program Godders uses (I think he said it's free) ... Shel, I think you're mistaking the way I wrote simple HTML using the Mac OS X included TextEdit application for the cheapskates thread as what I normally use to write HTML. Editors with HTML tools and HTML generators pose a significant advantage over writing from scratch with a simple text editor or word processor. Normally I use a pro-quality source code editor (BBEdit, for those who would like a good one on Mac OS X...): it includes a lot of excellent HTML constructs and is language-context sensitive so it helps keep me from making gross mistakes in syntax. I use Photoshop, Lightroom and iView MediaPro to generate HTML templates for more complex presentation layouts. I don't use them very much. iView's HTML code is simpler, generally, and easier to edit. Unlike some, I enjoy writing HTML occasionally. It's so much nicer to do it with good tools... ;-) G -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
