I have half a dozen clients who maintain ecommerce sites with hundreds or
thousands of products - each one having at least a Thumbnail and a larger
view image... Two of them wanted FTP and a new client also wants this
(he's also going to be uploading MP3 sound track samples - music store site)...
Here's the challenge - what naming convention, file size restrictions and
image dimension parameters do you have set up? I provide the specific info
in writing to them.
I also as was previously suggested, limit them to a special subdirectory
that the front end site points to. In that sub, there's a directory for
Thumbnails, one for Larger View images, etc...
Because they're not using cffile, I cant guarantee the image name will
match on a field in the database, so I've informed them that if they post
an image and it's not showing up, it's on their dime if I need to Figure it
Out or Fix it.
HERE's one - Client owns a Luggage site. Gets his images on CD from each
of his manufacturers. SOME are JPG already, some are GIF, and some are
TIFF.
OH YEAH - Some of those JPG files - they're not RGB / Web enabled Jpgs,
they're CMYK JPGs so some browsers dont display them at all , some do, and
some display only half the layering.
Guess who had to figure that out, and then TRAIN the client on
conversion? I did, for a FEE. Yep.
Oh yeah - File sizes - if you say they cant make them bigger than 200x160,
and they violate that, the front end looks like Crapola... SO I then
needed to teach that client how to do Batch Resizing of files in
Photoshop. Again, for a fee.
AND to be extra sure it was as visitor friendly as possible, I run a
CFDirectory on their upload directory on the fly to be sure the photo is
there before I call it... for which I got a fee.
So, they can pay you now, or if you cover your ass with instructions AND
written agreement that "somthing doesnt work on Their process,and if you
fix it you get a fee" then you're pretty much covered.
OH YEAH - Better run Antivirus on that directory... and Limit the file
type uploads as well...
At 01:22 PM 10/27/03, you wrote:
>Has anybody had experience with having a non-techie upload files (in this
>case photos) to their website?
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>I will tfp. Just show me how.
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>To save $100 the site-owner would rather use a site that doesn't permit
>CFFILE.
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>Just wondering if there's been any disasters.
>
>Gil Midonnet
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