Image Server Test Comments & Feedback

[Mac from NS]

this should bring my picture up? It doesn't show a pic on preveiw.

[Bigdog]

I don't think webshots permits direct linking.

[lildog]

Do we like the display of random and recently added pics on the homepage or not. I tend to think it makes it a bit crowded, but I'm anal about that kind of thing. I can turneither or both off. Let me have your opinions of them. thanks.

[Rudi]

Mac:

It comes up as removed... you have to link webshots the same way as the eBay pics in the How To Do Neat Stuff in a Post thread..



Lildog:

I liked both. Was confused for a few minutes until I realized that you were upgrading and tweaking.. The Albums are the best option, but if you can do what say Dennis does, and have say 1/2 dozen in the Public Forum rotate say every 5 or 10 secs, then the randomness is there, but does not become too over crowded.

I will go along with what everybody else finds useful.. but I like the idea of the Forum forlders as well as the User Albums.. works nice... you are doing a bang up job, really.. I AM VERY Impressed...

[Donny M]

lildog,

Will we at some point be able to post bit map files Tried tonight to no avail.

[Mac from NS]

Rudi i have tryed this a dozen times or more and didn't figer it out. Thank
you for all your help. It was webshots that was messing it up.

thankyou BD

[1541]

Lildog,

I think creating a separate tips file and linking it from the main gallery menu would be the way to go.

I like the random pics. The recently added images is a nice feature, but, not necessary.

Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.
- General George S. Patton Jr.

[Cecil]

I just posted 2 new albums. I used both import from files and URL's. Pretty easy. One thing I saw was they were put in the album in the reverse order in which they were uploaded. Probably something I can figure out when I have time. I like it.

[beaconlight]

lildog Thanks. I think this is great.

Bill Sorensen

[lildog]

lildog,

Will we at some point be able to post bit map files :?: Tried tonight to no avail.
8)

Donny, all standard web formats (jpg, gif, png) are supported, but bmp is not, because it is not a compressed format and typically creates very large file sizes.

[lildog]

I just posted 2 new albums. I used both import from files and URL's. Pretty easy. One thing I saw was they were put in the album in the reverse order in which they were uploaded. Probably something I can figure out when I have time. I like it. :D

Currently, I have file sorting set to "Date Descending" which means the most recent files display first. Other sort options are:

Date Descending - your last uploaded photos would be listed last
File Ascending and Descending - files are listed alphabetically by filename
Title Ascending and Descending - files are listed alphabetically by whatever tile you give your pictures.

I can change the default sort if the majority prefers another method, however, each individual user can change the sort on a page-by-page basis. In the top-right of each thumbnail page, you'll see the words "Title" "File Name" and "Date" each with a + and - sign next to them (+ for ascending, - for descending).

[lildog]

I like the random pics. The recently added images is a nice feature, but, not necessary.

In addition to (or in lieu of) the random and most recently uploaded thumbnail bars, we could have:

the most viewed images
the highest rated images
the images with the most recent comments
the most recently viewed images
the most recently created albums.

I can also control how many rows are displayed. I'm liking the combination of one row of random thumbs and 1 row of most-viewed for our homepage. What does everyone think?

I'll go ahead and set this up, but we can tweak it. The manual does caution that the "random" feature can become a problem if you get more than 10,000 photos in the gallery - hopefully it will be a while before we have this problem.

[lildog]

What does everyone think about the individual disk quota so far? I have it set for 5mb. I've noticed that we have two users who are about at 1/4 of their quota - one user has 10 files uploaded, the other has just 4. Yet another user has 21 files at about 1/3 of his quota.

It definitely looks like the users expertise as resizing images before uploading will be a big factor. We'll have to watch use once we go public and we can adjust the quotas up (I don't really want to go down) based on demand.

[Cecil]

I just posted this to another string. How about for Cubfest Northeast we do a little seminar on picture sizing, posting and basic use of the tools available on the board. I thought it would give Rudi a good excuse to come look at the leaves in NY.

[lildog]

In addition to maximum file sizes, I can also set maximum image dimensions. Currently, the gallery allows images up to 2048 pixels on the longest edge. That's a pretty big image. Do you think we should drop the dimension limits somewhat to keep file sizes down.

I've done some researche and I can do a little programming to take advantage of this mas dimension settings. I can make it so that, when you upload a file that is bigger than the max size, the gallery will automatically resize the image to the max dimensions instead of rejecting it (default behavior).

So, what do y'all think? First, what should be the largest allowable image dimension. Second, do you think I should try this auto-resize hack?