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I'm getting too many pictures to post on a web site. Need a nice,
cheap (free? hah!) app to link thumbnails and slide show. I just
looked at Thotor studio, but didn't find price mentioned. Also checked
'hammering out thumbnails,' but I don't want to DIM -- want a canned
solution. TIA

"Frogleg" <> wrote in message news:...
: I'm getting too many pictures to post on a web site. Need a nice,
: cheap (free? hah!) app to link thumbnails and slide show. I just
: looked at Thotor studio, but didn't find price mentioned. Also checked
: 'hammering out thumbnails,' but I don't want to DIM -- want a canned
: solution. TIA
:
This may be of interest. Our CMS template and custom tags system can help
you do this with ease and quickly.

In your slideshow.html page just define a TOPIC tag, like

&lt;!--@topic slide 1 photos.txt@-->

You list the location of all pictures in the photos.txt file.

In the thumbnails.html page you can define HREF links to specific slides
with URLs like so,

slideshow.html?slide=5 or slideshow.html?slide=monkey

You can automate the Next/Previous slide links by using additional TOPIC
tags. That is all it takes and you are done. If you need to add more pictures,
just update photos.txt, thumbnails.html and the Next/Prev link files.

It may be worth your while to check out our services.

Long
www.webcharm.ca - Integrated content management web hosting

Quoth the raven named Long - CM web hosting:

> "Frogleg" <> wrote in message news:...
> : I'm getting too many pictures to post on a web site. Need a nice,
> : cheap (free? hah!) app to link thumbnails and slide show. I just
> : looked at Thotor studio, but didn't find price mentioned. Also checked
> : 'hammering out thumbnails,' but I don't want to DIM -- want a canned
> : solution. TIA
> :
> This may be of interest. Our CMS template and custom tags system can help
> you do this with ease and quickly.

Please don't be afraid to mention that frogleg will have to move his
web site to your server, the only place your Webcharmed CMS will work.
Thanks for your consideration.

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"Frogleg" <> wrote in message
news:...
> I'm getting too many pictures to post on a web site. Need a nice,
> cheap (free? hah!) app to link thumbnails and slide show. I just
> looked at Thotor studio, but didn't find price mentioned. Also checked
> 'hammering out thumbnails,' but I don't want to DIM -- want a canned
> solution. TIA

It might noe be so bad to do it yourself... I wrote one earlier this year
in ASP and it only wound up being 15 lines of code plus another 7 to declare
the variables and set the file system objects (probably even fewer lines of
code in PHP)
(it shows thumbnails, has an enlarged preview pic and opens the preview pic
full sized if clicked on)

If you don't know any server side languages this would probably be a good
project to learn by for any language: its not too complex and covers a good
diversity of topics (reading files off the server, looping, writing output,
checking conditionals)

On Tue, 04 May 2004 14:15:48 +0000 Long - CM web hosting proclaimed:


> In your slideshow.html page just define a TOPIC tag, like
>
> &lt;!--@topic slide 1 photos.txt@-->
>
>

and earlier

On Tue, 04 May 2004 13:42:32 +0000 Long - CM web hosting confessed:
>
> This may or may not help you, but you can do this easily using the CMS
> template and custom tags system provided at webcharm.ca. I use this to
> grab the value of any query string variable.
>
> &lt;!--@qsvalue sessionid@-->
>
>
Let me guess. I want to generate PDF from HTML. I guess I could just use
webcharm.ca and have a custom tag like:

&lt;!--@transform inputfile.html outputfile.pdf@-->

Is there anything you cannot do with this one line of pseudocode?


David

"David Christopher Weichert" <> wrote in message
news. ..
: On Tue, 04 May 2004 14:15:48 +0000 Long - CM web hosting proclaimed:
:
: > In your slideshow.html page just define a TOPIC tag, like
: >
: > &lt;!--@topic slide 1 photos.txt@-->
: >
: >
:
: and earlier
:
: On Tue, 04 May 2004 13:42:32 +0000 Long - CM web hosting confessed:
: >
: > This may or may not help you, but you can do this easily using the CMS
: > template and custom tags system provided at webcharm.ca. I use this to
: > grab the value of any query string variable.
: >
: > &lt;!--@qsvalue sessionid@-->
: >
: >
: Let me guess. I want to generate PDF from HTML. I guess I could just use
: webcharm.ca and have a custom tag like:
:
: &lt;!--@transform inputfile.html outputfile.pdf@-->
:
Such a tag is not yet available but can be provided if needed.

: Is there anything you cannot do with this one line of pseudocode?
:
Of course there are limitations in terms of what can be done with templates and
custom tags, but what I have referred to are doable and real.

The reason I use &lt; instead of < is because my outlook keeps on trasforming
the tag mark up to URL link. Besides that, there is nothing pseudo about the
CMS template and custom tags system available as part of our hosting service.

If you want proof you can try out our services FREE for 30-days.

Cheers,

Long
www.webcharm.ca - Integrated content management web hosting

In article <>, Frogleg says...
> I'm getting too many pictures to post on a web site. Need a nice,
> cheap (free? hah!) app to link thumbnails and slide show. I just
> looked at Thotor studio, but didn't find price mentioned. Also checked
> 'hammering out thumbnails,' but I don't want to DIM -- want a canned
> solution. TIA

I have a series of PHP scripts that scan a directory structure (defined
by you) and creates thumbnails on the fly. It requires the GD2 library,
but can work with GD. When adding new photos you just upload the JPEGs
to a new or existing directory and the script does the rest. All you
need to do is upload a logo image (or remove the reference from the
code) and set the path to your photos. Drop me an E if you want it.

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http://kibo.org.uk/mfaq.php

Frogleg wrote:

>I'm getting too many pictures to post on a web site. Need a nice,
>cheap (free? hah!) app to link thumbnails and slide show. I just
>looked at Thotor studio, but didn't find price mentioned. Also checked
>'hammering out thumbnails,' but I don't want to DIM -- want a canned
>solution. TIA

There are many tools to do this, a good number of them freeware.

The best solution, IMO, is JAlbum, http://jalbum.net/. It is freeware,
and runs on Windows/Mac/Linux. It's a Java app, but you can download
an installer for windows with the java runtime included, so it's
pretty painless. Out of the box you can pick from a number of
different skins (appearances). Or with a little effort, you can change
the HTML templates and scripting, and create your own appearance, or
extend it in various ways. You can see examples at the site. Highly
recommended.

Just to be clear: this runs on your own PC, and creates a website (or
portion of a website). You then upload the created files to your web
hosting service.

An alternative approach is to have an application that runs on the web
server, that creates the pages "on the fly". With this approach, you
just upload your picture files to some directory on your web server,
and everything else happens automatically. Some of the other posts
were suggesting this approach. I don't have experience with these, so
no comments -- I'm just pointing out the two broad approaches.

Terry

Frogleg wrote:
> I'm getting too many pictures to post on a web site. Need a nice,
> cheap (free? hah!) app to link thumbnails and slide show. I just
> looked at Thotor studio, but didn't find price mentioned. Also checked
> 'hammering out thumbnails,' but I don't want to DIM -- want a canned
> solution. TIA

http://gallery.sourceforge.net

Free, easy and works very well. It may seem a little overwhelming at
first, but the support documents are very helpful as well as the forum
on the site.

In article Terry Orchard wrote:
> Frogleg wrote:
>
> >I'm getting too many pictures to post on a web site. Need a nice,
> >cheap (free? hah!) app to link thumbnails and slide show. I just
> >looked at Thotor studio, but didn't find price mentioned. Also checked
> >'hammering out thumbnails,' but I don't want to DIM -- want a canned
> >solution. TIA
>
> There are many tools to do this, a good number of them freeware.
>
> The best solution, IMO, is JAlbum, http://jalbum.net/. It is freeware,
> and runs on Windows/Mac/Linux. It's a Java app, but you can download
> an installer for windows with the java runtime included, so it's
> pretty painless. Out of the box you can pick from a number of
> different skins (appearances).

All skins out of box are examples of horrible HTML with stupid CSS.
It being java thing means it is slow.

> Or with a little effort, you can change
> the HTML templates and scripting, and create your own appearance, or
> extend it in various ways. You can see examples at the site. Highly
> recommended.

IMHO, could be easier...

> Just to be clear: this runs on your own PC, and creates a website (or
> portion of a website). You then upload the created files to your web
> hosting service.

Of course, you can run it in server, if that is allowed and server has
new enaugh java. That's what I do. (No server side thingys available,
exept .htaccess for password protecting only)


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