Multimedia - Images

[padders]

Ok got the program installed:

http://andromedafan.com/multimedia/directory/explorer.php

why is it good?

Well it is so so so easy to maintain. All we do is just drop the images into the server by ftp and it is done. Not creating anything, all done for us completly.

why is it bad?

no thumbnails.

But the screen shots are small so that is not too bad perhaps. I think it is worth the lack of thumbnails and you never know thumbnails may be included in next version.

What do you think provisionally anyway? I think it is great personally

 

[padders]

ok, the only images so far are in the episodes directory.

 

[padders]

Ok, i found someone who has got the program working with thumbnails. Hopefully they will let me use it.

So, we want i think 20 thumbnails a page. I am open to suggeestions on that though.

Whatever, we need to make subcategories for each one so it will be:

Images > By Episode > Episode 1 > 1-20
Images > By Episode > Episode 1 > 21-40

etc?

so mything. All you need to do once you have got all the images is put them into a directory structure on you hard drive like that and then upload all those directories. That is it, done hey presto.

Once i have found out how to do thumbnails i need to make the program look nicer. At the moment i want to get these basic functions working and then work on the interface a bit later.

What do you think though?

 

[MythingLink]

Okay you're going to have to have thumbnail views. No one is going to page through each photo. This other version you've found, when it does the thumbnails what order are they going to go into and are they going to link to the original photo?

The order is important because the whole idea behind screen captures is that you can look at them, in order, and kind of get an idea of what was going on in the show. At least that's the way I see it.

So if they are in order of, say the order they are in the directory, you'll have un1, un100, un101 ... which throws the whole thing out of whack.

It really isn't that difficult or that time consuming doing it the way I do now especially now that I've got the templates set up. The only thing that needs to be changed is the name of the .jpg and that is done universally on all the pages with just a few clicks of my mouse in my html editor.

Cheers,

 

[padders]

-- Thumbnails will link to the photo, yes

-- Order. Well as we are going to only put 20 images per page this will not matter. So it will be img1, img2, img3 etc.

-- (the best stargate screen capture site does not have thumbnails).

we are going to have them though.

Why use this?

Main reason is so much easier. If we want to set up an Andromeda Ship section? just find some andromeda pics and lob them in. Also, so easy to add new things to it like a link for each image to send it as a postcard. Also, user uploadable images. Although a lot of this is screen captures we can expand to user created art and all sort of things.

This gives scalability and a much better way to do it. NO static html pages allowed remember i am not doing this for the sake of it, there really are lots of advantages in these programs especially 6 months down the line when we have 350MB of images and 400 html pages. Can you imagine the time spent changing them all even if you use a templatge system like in dreamweaver! This is far far better.

But we will have thumbnails. I have seen a site with it and should be able to get the code needed.

 

[MythingLink]

Order. Well as we are going to only put 20 images per page this will not matter. So it will be img1, img2, img3 etc.

As long as the program allows for this. Most I've run into that do it automatically do it in the order the directory is in and most directories do it numerically, but they do it 1, 100, 101, 102, ... 11, 111, 112, not 1, 2, 3, 4, ...

Just as an aside, if I had 400 html pages for screen captures I don't have to change them all to put up a new set. I only have to change my original template for the new ones. So all the image references would change from **1.jpg to af1.jpg for An Affirming Flame.

Cheers,

BTW, I'm waiting until Saturday for the screen captures for An Affirming Flame ... UPN comes in a little grainy so I want to see what the other two stations reception looks like.

 

[padders]

What i mean is what happens when we want to change the navigation controls say on all the page, or change the banner code etc. We would have to change each of the 400 pages. We could do it with a php3 inser of .shtml but it is not very good.

I think we can control how to order the images, i think there is a function for this. Otherwise we just have to rename them to:

unAAA
unAAB
unAAC
unAAD
unAAE
unAAF
unAAG

etc if there is no other way round it.