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Re: OT: Online Phot Album
- To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
- Subject: Re: OT: Online Phot Album
- From: "graham_howe" <graham@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2002 12:05:59 -0000
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--- In ukha_d@y..., "graham_howe" <graham@s...> wrote:
> --- In ukha_d@y..., "BUTLER, Tony, FM"
<tony.butler@r...> wrote:
> > Anyone know of an easy way to set up an online photo album run
>from
> my own
> > server?
> > Just a simple thumbnail view and full size view would do -
ideally
> similar
> > to andromeda for music in that it just scans a directory, gives
you
> a list
> > of pics/subdirectories with thumbnails and you click on the pic
to
> get the
> > full blown image.
> > Did have an msn photo album for a while, but didn't update it
&
ppl
> didn;t
> > check for a while so it got deleted.
> > Think I'd like to host my own (have broadband so why not) rather
> than have a
> > 3rd party one, but liked the ease of use of adding photos to
albums
> you got
> > with the msn stuff.
> >
> It would be fairly easy to write this with ASP or some other server
> side scripting, but thumbnails might be a bit of an issue.
>
> The problem is that if you have an image that is say 400 x 400
pixels
> and through HTML you specify that it should be displayed at 40 x 40
> height and width, then the download time is not affected. This is
> because the image is downloaded first and then re-sized. So if you
> have a folder full of large images and get the server side
scripting
> to generate a page of 'thumbnails' then that page will take a long
> time to load.
>
> I personally would not attempt this unless I hade created 'real'
> thumbnails using a graphics package, in fact this is how I often do
> pictures on client web pages.
>
> Hope that helps
>
> Graham
Another option is to ignore my post and use the excellent software
suggested by Ray whilst I was typing the previous message ;-)
Graham
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