----- Original Message ----- From: "tom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 17:36 Subject: RE: OT: Image Management
> Did you look at this?: > > http://www.photopost.com/featuresgms.html i just did. looks like a fancier version of Gallery, but i think it is missing one feature i care about and that is local assignment of categories and keywords and then mass update to my web site. if i add a couple of hundred new images, i want to assign all of the categories on my computer using its faster access and have the software put the images into the right places. i've played a bit more with IMatch now and i think it will do a good job on the browsing front, but it still can't do any searching. i think i can create hidden keywords in the HTML pages and let a 3rd party search engine search my site. there are companies that do this as a service for really cheap. i also think i can modify the script for generating a web site to spread the image files around in subfolders since 10,000 images in a single folder is a huge slowdown for loading them. the user interface for category creation and assignment seems to be powerful enough and easy enough to do the kinds of things i want to do. i have three top level categories: subject, location, and time. i then have a lot of subcategories in a nice tree. each image will belong to a bunch off these categories. the supplied web publishing script puts all the image thumbnails and files into one folder, so with 10,000 images, i'll have way too many in one folder and the web server will run so slow as! to be unusable. if i can solve this problem, i think i will adopt IMatch as my publication solution and figure out a way to modify the HTML templates so that they generate individual image pages with hidden keywords that the search engine will use to find them. the price for IMatch is right too at $49. > Have you posted to any of the pro forums? > not yet. Herb....
