Photo Gallery Solution??

[lily257]

Hello,
I run a business website w/ FP 2003. Our business specializes in commercial
vehicles, all which I maintain on our website. Problem is that FP doesn't
seem to offer a photo gallery that works well for the content I need to
showcase. Here is one page of the site I am talking about,

http://www.bra-truck.com/cargovan.htm

Problems: 1 image per vehicle, and the size/spacing is so odd; too large and
not able to reduce it for some reason.

And this is an example of what I would like to be able to do,

http://www.famvans.com/All-Cargo-Vans.phtml

I love how you can easily view so many w/o needing to scroll down and
anything someone is further interested in they can click and get more photos
and info.

Any Ideas or Help Available?, Its GREATLY Appreciated!

Angela

 

[Mark Fitzpatrick]

Angela,
Unfortunately, it's a little difficult to compare the two because
technically, what the other site has insn't a photo gallery, it's a datalist
or data repeater. That page is probably entirely database driven and
generated whenever you view the page. That means they have an application
that allows them to attach photos to a record in a database. Their images
are small mainly because they are thumbnailed versions. It could be that the
same page they use to put the data into their database can reduce the image
to a thumbnail or it could be that they have to do it manually themselves.

Photo Gallerys aren't designed to show the type of data you would
like, simply because that's the nature of a photo gallery. The image would
stand on it's own with some possible text to describe it.

I know there used to be programs out there that could do this, but
it's been a while, but you can try to search tucows.com for a
freeware/shareware application that will let you take a batch of photos and
convert them to thumbnails. I know FP can do this to an extent with the
Photo Gallery, but you can often get a bit more control using a dedicated
image editing program. With the thumbnails you could get pretty close to the
famvans.com page by hand.

 

[Rob Giordano \(Crash\)]

IrFanview can batch process, resize, optimize and rename all in one
shot....can't build a db though



| Angela,
| Unfortunately, it's a little difficult to compare the two because
| technically, what the other site has insn't a photo gallery, it's a
datalist
| or data repeater. That page is probably entirely database driven and
| generated whenever you view the page. That means they have an application
| that allows them to attach photos to a record in a database. Their images
| are small mainly because they are thumbnailed versions. It could be that
the
| same page they use to put the data into their database can reduce the
image
| to a thumbnail or it could be that they have to do it manually themselves.
|
| Photo Gallerys aren't designed to show the type of data you would
| like, simply because that's the nature of a photo gallery. The image would
| stand on it's own with some possible text to describe it.
|
| I know there used to be programs out there that could do this, but
| it's been a while, but you can try to search tucows.com for a
| freeware/shareware application that will let you take a batch of photos
and
| convert them to thumbnails. I know FP can do this to an extent with the
| Photo Gallery, but you can often get a bit more control using a dedicated
| image editing program. With the thumbnails you could get pretty close to
the
| famvans.com page by hand.
|
|
| --
| Hope this helps,
| Mark Fitzpatrick
| Former Microsoft FrontPage MVP 199?-2006
|
| | > Hello,
| > I run a business website w/ FP 2003. Our business specializes in
| > commercial
| > vehicles, all which I maintain on our website. Problem is that FP
doesn't
| > seem to offer a photo gallery that works well for the content I need to
| > showcase. Here is one page of the site I am talking about,
| >
| > http://www.bra-truck.com/cargovan.htm
| >
| > Problems: 1 image per vehicle, and the size/spacing is so odd; too large
| > and
| > not able to reduce it for some reason.
| >
| > And this is an example of what I would like to be able to do,
| >
| > http://www.famvans.com/All-Cargo-Vans.phtml
| >
| > I love how you can easily view so many w/o needing to scroll down and
| > anything someone is further interested in they can click and get more
| > photos
| > and info.
| >
| > Any Ideas or Help Available?, Its GREATLY Appreciated!
| >
| > Angela
|
|

 

[Trevor L.]

IrFanview can batch process, resize, optimize and rename all in one
shot....can't build a db though

It can also create thumbnails in batch

www.irfanview.com



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Cheers,
Trevor Lawrence
[ Microsoft MVP - FrontPage ]
MVPS Website: http://trevorl.mvps.org/
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[lily257]

Thank You for the help!
**Any way FP might work with a database program? All of our inventory is of
course saved into our Auto program, and I've heard that its possible for our
outside web advertising (autotrader.com, etc.) to connect to the database
from our inventory program rather than have to be manually updated. Any way
to create a database add-in?

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

You would need to contact AutoTrader.com to see how you can use their content on or retrieve your
content from your site.

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Thomas A. Rowe
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage

http://www.Ecom-Data.com
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