Re: OT: Online Phot Album

["graham_howe" <graham@xxxxxxx>]

--- 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

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