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Does anyone have any suggestions about the best way to name images which
will be part of a very large web site?
Any comments on image naming conventions or useful links will be appreciated
also!

Many thanks,

Chris.

In article <bu6ao9$3kn$>, says...
> Does anyone have any suggestions about the best way to name images which
> will be part of a very large web site?
> Any comments on image naming conventions or useful links will be appreciated
> also!

We named web servers after Muppets, but that probably wouldn't work in
this case.

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"Chris" <> said:

> Does anyone have any suggestions about the best way to name images which
> will be part of a very large web site?

britney-spears-nude-01.jpg
britney-spears-nude-02.jpg
etc etc

> Any comments on image naming conventions or useful links will be appreciated
> also!

if you have an image of a green widget then common sense should tell you
to call it something like "green-widget.jpg" calling the file a red
widget just wouldn't make sense.

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Chris wrote:
> Does anyone have any suggestions about the best way to name images
> which will be part of a very large web site?
> Any comments on image naming conventions or useful links will be
> appreciated also!

What sort of images? My non-photographic images tend to have pretty ad-hoc
names. (Which is a problem of my own making).

My photographs have systematic names. I'll just summarise it in case this is
useful to you. I only have 100s, which may not be "very large" to you.

Each name is of the form:
project film frame size .jpg

So this may be:
eg95_10_25_3.jpg
meaning "Ecuador & Galapagos Islands 1995, film 10, frame 25, fits a 700 x 500
box". (The thumbnail ends in "0" not "3"). See:
http://www.barry.pearson.name/photog...95_10_25_3.jpg

The HTML page that displays that photograph is (not surprisingly):
http://www.barry.pearson.name/photog...95_10_25_3.htm

Note that I also have a reasonably systematic folder structure, also based on
projects. I think that is just as important.

This is film-based. I'm not sure what I will do when I take them digitally.
Perhaps I'll ask here for suggestions!

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brucie wrote:
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> if you have an image of a green widget then common sense should tell
> you to call it something like "green-widget.jpg" calling the file a
> red widget just wouldn't make sense.

I nearly said "that mixes content with presentation, you should leave "green"
and "red" to the stylesheet".

Then I decided not to say it.

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http://www.ChildSupportAnalysis.co.uk/

Chris wrote:

> Any comments on image naming conventions or useful links will be appreciated
> also!

Assuming you are using Apache, turn on MultiModes.

Then whenever you need to link to an image, instead of doing:

<img src="my_image.jpeg" alt="My Image">

do

<img src="my_image" alt="My Image">

That way, you can switch between different image formats in the future
without needing to update your HTML. (It also cuts 5 bytes out of your
HTML file.)

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"Chris" <> wrote in message
news:bu6ao9$3kn$...
> Does anyone have any suggestions about the best way to name images which
> will be part of a very large web site?
> Any comments on image naming conventions or useful links will be
appreciated
> also!
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Chris.
>
Give them meaningful names and use your search terms as much as possible for
both the image and the alt tag....

I.e. .. If you have a site selling decorative candles then
<img src="candles/red_decorative_candle_glass_holder.jpg" border="0"
alt="decorative candle in glass holder">

is better than
<img src="images/image010.jpg">

if you have bullet point and line images why not use wax.gif wick.gif as
names too ?

this will make your pages more meaningful both to human readers and search
engines and should improve your page ranking.

Toby A Inkster wrote:

>Assuming you are using Apache, turn on MultiModes.
>[...]
>That way, you can switch between different image formats in the future
>without needing to update your HTML. (It also cuts 5 bytes out of your
>HTML file.)

But adds more than 5 bytes to the response header ...

Micha

Michael Fesser wrote:

> But adds more than 5 bytes to the response header ...

True, but response headers don't take up disk space.

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Whitecrest <> wrote in
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> We named web servers after Muppets, but that probably wouldn't
> work in this case.

The company I work for names servers after The Matrix characters...

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