Author Topic: Photo Gallery just wondering?? (Read 1625 times)

Mrs._Stump_Jumper · « **on:** January 30, 2005, 01:02:56 pm »

Jeff

Do we still have a photo gallery or was that not transferrable?

Not complaining just wondering.

Everything runs and looks great even for dial-up.

Tom · « **Reply #1 on:** January 30, 2005, 01:07:44 pm »

Many of those features are separate-from -the-forum systems that Jeff manicured to make them fit the old forum. He will be working with them along and along to try to make them fit the new one. Hopefully he will be successful with most of them, it'll just take some time. Gotta go one step at a time.

Mrs._Stump_Jumper · « **Reply #2 on:** January 30, 2005, 01:11:06 pm »

Thanks Tom

I was just wondering of it was one of those features that would be gone-gone or if it would take some time to get back.

But everything looks great.

Jeff · « **Reply #3 on:** January 30, 2005, 03:39:14 pm »

just want you to know I'm not sleeping yet.

Here is a little preview on what yer next generation of gallerys will be like. Hold on, if yer on a phone connection you might have some entertainment that lasts a while. Not ready to link to them yet, but as I said, here is a peek.

{link removed while I work on this}

sandmar · « **Reply #4 on:** January 30, 2005, 04:07:17 pm »

YEEHAW! Looking good Boss! Oncable them pics sure do load fast.......and the thumbnails are fantabulous!

Thanks for all the hard work......but you better get some rest...then you can Git 'er dun!!!!!!

Sandmar

OneWithWood · « **Reply #5 on:** January 30, 2005, 04:14:48 pm »

It's coming along nicely. The thumbnails loaded lightning fast but when I clicked on a pic it did not enlarge. I did get the description and date of posting. Keep up the good work. Are you fuelin' yourself with grits?

Ianab · « **Reply #6 on:** January 30, 2005, 04:53:44 pm »

Just a warning.. if you are running an old Win98 PC like my bench / test pc, dont click on that link

OK.. it's probably too late, you did already eh??

Jeff, it's looking good ( apart from almost crashing my poor little pc

) ,hopefully you can break it down into sections that are easier to load / browse??

Cheers

Ian

Larry · « **Reply #7 on:** January 30, 2005, 04:56:00 pm »

Tom wrote up some good stuff on how to do pictures in the old house. Maybe ya could come up with some good guide lines here in the new house.

Couple of ideas off the top of my head....don’t know if they are workable or not.

Link in the picture description back to the thread?
Users handle on the picture?
Description in the link thing under the picture?
Some way to search the pictures?

I know that I could never find one of the pictures I put on 6 months ago. You guys write the rules and I’ll do what ya want.

Jeff · « **Reply #8 on:** January 30, 2005, 05:02:48 pm »

Quote from: OneWithWood on January 30, 2005, 04:14:48 pm

It's coming along nicely. The thumbnails loaded lightning fast but when I clicked on a pic it did not enlarge. I did get the description and date of posting. Keep up the good work. Are you fuelin' yourself with grits?

Depends on what ones you click on. We have preached not to put spaces or special symbles in picutre file names, but some folks insist on it. When you come across one that has those, they may not work. If you clicked one that had a problem like that you get an x. Other then that, you will see the actual image in the other frame.

Ianab · « **Reply #9 on:** January 30, 2005, 05:05:15 pm »

Ahhh... what will work now is if you find a photo in the gallery, type it's file name into the search box, and it will find the thread ( or threads) that relate to it.

Maybe thats something you could build into the picture gallery Jeff?

Ohhh the joy of having a decent search function

Ian

Jeff · « **Reply #10 on:** January 30, 2005, 05:15:52 pm »

I think what I really need to do, and it will take some time, is create new archive gallerys from our old. Sort all the photos by type I guess. I can look at photo thumbnails on my machine and bulk sort them into directories according to the content. Of course if someone else would like to do that I will gladly give you the download of the entire zip file.

Jeff · « **Reply #11 on:** January 30, 2005, 05:17:26 pm »

I am decreasing the size of the thumbnails. In order to that, I have to delte the thousand that were created when the script first run for that gallery.

They only need to be big enough to identify what is in them.

Ianab · « **Reply #12 on:** January 30, 2005, 05:24:24 pm »

Ummmm... sounds like a job for a Looong winter night ( or several )

I was thinking of A-D, E-H etc sections. That would at least break it down into managable chunks and be much easier to do?

I see the smaller thumbs, but it does make it hard to figure out what is going on in some pictures ( insert magnifying glass smiley here )

Ian

Jeff · « **Reply #13 on:** January 30, 2005, 06:03:33 pm »

We could do the alphabetical thing, but the way I figure it, thats useless for finding anything. Have you looked at the file names of most photos?

Probably the biggest share of them are simply camera assigned names.

If we had a "lumber gallery". "mill photos" "Logging photos" "Family Photos" " Animal photos" "Scenary"

or something like that, wouldnt it be easier to perhaps track down an old photo?

sandmar · « **Reply #14 on:** January 30, 2005, 06:24:27 pm »

That sounds great Boss,but...............geez that's a LOT of work. I am sure you will come up with something...but take a day or two to rest and think about it. Are you on a grits high or sumptin? Is it time for an intervention from your computer?

Sandmar

Tom · « **Reply #15 on:** January 30, 2005, 06:52:45 pm »

It would be easier, even yet, if the person who put the picture on the gallery used his initials or userid on the front ot the file name and then made the file name mean something.

Furby · « **Reply #16 on:** January 30, 2005, 10:19:44 pm »

Jeff, how would that work for new pics added? Would you have to go back every once in a while and sort them?
I'm thinking that different catagories would be nice, but how would the new ones get there. Also would they still be A-Z in each catagory?

Jeff · « **Reply #17 on:** January 30, 2005, 10:21:41 pm »

here is the link again for the daring, and those with high band width. You can always hit your stop button and not load all of the thumb nails

http://www.forestryforum.com/images/03_21_04/index.php

Furby · « **Reply #18 on:** January 30, 2005, 10:37:52 pm »

I gave it a try!
Most did not load so it only took 7 minutes.

Yep, think you are right on about the catagories!
LOVE having the thumbnails though!

There are a little under 6000 pics right?

Ianab · « **Reply #19 on:** January 31, 2005, 02:39:51 am »

That works now, if you are patient

My home PC has a bit more memory and didn't die anywhere near as badly

The reason I suggested alphabetical is cos it would be quick and easy way of dividing it into managable chunks that could at least be browsed. Another option might be by month? , sorting by date.

Once you find an interesting picture the search works good to find the thread it relates to

Sorting into categories would be the ultimate, but thats a lot of work.. and some of the pictures just defy categories

It's fun just to look thru the random collection and search out anything of interest.

ian

Ianab · « **Reply #20 on:** January 31, 2005, 03:50:18 am »

Like what category do you put this one in?

Jeff · « **Reply #21 on:** January 31, 2005, 04:49:45 am »

Quote from: Ianab on January 31, 2005, 03:50:18 am

Like what category do you put this one in?

(Image hidden from quote, click to view.)

Health and Safety

DanG · « **Reply #22 on:** January 31, 2005, 05:50:51 am »

I dunno, Jeff. It don't look healthy or safe, to me.

redpowerd · « **Reply #23 on:** January 31, 2005, 08:27:17 am »

that was the randum picture that prompted me to ask about randum picture details

yep. thats the one!

Jeff · « **Reply #24 on:** January 31, 2005, 10:49:29 am »

yep, mighty simple to find the picture name with the search and the associated threads. here is the one for that photo.

http://www.forestryforum.com/board/index.php?topic=7816.0

pappy · « **Reply #25 on:** January 31, 2005, 11:13:12 am »

Quote

easy way of dividing it into managable chunks that could at least be browsed

How about into months like January through April and so on

Seems to me the files wouldn't be so large to load $:-\$

Jeff · « **Reply #26 on:** January 31, 2005, 01:07:15 pm »

I really dont have any way of knowing what photos were from what month. THe file date on the server changes to when thefile was last accessed from what I can see, not when it was created.

pappy · « **Reply #27 on:** January 31, 2005, 01:30:55 pm »

Jeff,
I guess what I should of asked was as the new pics are uploaded to the FF. That's the way it was done before and it seemed to work good.

Maybe what ian suggested, alphabetically might be the way to keep the file sizes down. Cause when I went to look it was gonna take some time to download all to get down to the T's and beyond, and I got DSL

I wish I had more than two cents to donate

Jeff · « **Reply #28 on:** January 31, 2005, 01:50:21 pm »

THis may be the way we do it in the future. You have to select what gallery a photo goes into.

I have been rethinking the old gallery, and to tell you the truth, there aint much I can do about them. If I move them to seperate galleries, the links throughout the forum will break. All I can do to make a browsable gallery for the old photos, it close them off, then put duplicates in assorted galleries.

sandmar · « **Reply #29 on:** January 31, 2005, 02:31:59 pm »

ok..I got 2 pennies so here they are

How about putting all previous pics in the old forum archives folder.....to save work and mental torture.....then let each forum category have a pic section....i.e. General board pics....Sawmill pics.....Forestry and logging.....Drying...Timberframe....... of course some topics wouldn't need pics so you could limit the amount of pic topics...........yes that burning smeel is coming from my brain,so I gotta quit thinking for now

Sandmar

Jeff · « **Reply #30 on:** February 01, 2005, 12:26:17 am »

3 hours and I have about 500 photos of the 5000+ sorted. Going to be a while I think... $:-\$

Chet · « **Reply #31 on:** February 01, 2005, 12:33:09 am »

Yur gonna look like this

after 27 more hours of sortin'.

Furby · « **Reply #32 on:** February 01, 2005, 01:12:41 am »

I'd help if I could, but the commute would kill me!

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