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A little bit of fun and some questions.

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by ontheropes

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Fun first:

One of our TR members recently posted some excellent pictures and comments from a trip he made to the USA.

TR link: http://tinyurl.com/2x7r9b

That post got me started looking for a safe, secure and inexpensive or free way to do something similar.

After spending some time uploading roughly 175 pictures to www.photobucket.com I discovered that I need to ?go pro? to create a long slideshow.

A friend suggested that I try www.slide.com. I found that I could create a slide show of any size and use the pictures already uploaded to photobucket if I entered my photobucket password. I decided to try it and changed my photobucket pw when I was done.

Sharing a slideshow at slide.com requires that you have your own site or one of several free online sites where you can paste ?slide's? generated code.

I've had such a site for several months and I created a single page for the slideshow located here: http://tinyurl.com/2yqf48

Before someone accuses me of trying to drive traffic there let me say that I don't care about traffic for that website and won't gain or lose anything (besides allotted bandwidth) if 1 or 10,000 people view it.

I am simply trying to share pictures that are interesting and/or humorous to me. If you have about 6 minutes or so you may want to take a look.

One of the things I don't like about ?slide's? slideshow is that it doesn't properly display animated gifs. There is one picture, a dust-devil on the planet Mars, that remains stationary even while pausing the slideshow.

I've also tried Picasa but was unhappy with it for various reasons although I may use some of Picasa's features.

That brings me to the questions.

Does anyone have experience with sites or software that allow you to use animated gifs in slideshows?

What is the best slideshow or thumbnail generating software? Why? Does it generate code usable on a website?

What do you consider to be the best site or method to share a large number of photos,(1000+)?



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by danlm

With a index page showing all the pictures in thumb format, then letting the people click through the pictures as they want.

gag, spew, choke. chuckle, front page will actually do this for you. Builds the thumb pictures and everything. Nice template for it.

Dreamweaver has something to do it also, but I've never used that template.

There are some mmm, picture organizing software out there that also offers this. Thumbplus(not sure of that name) and compupic is another. I've used compupic, and it's ok.

Dan
[i]Edited to add:[/i] I stutter my name a lot when sign my posts... Ie... my name seems to appear multiple times.

by ontheropes

Glad I cheered you up. :0

Can you provide a link to a site that has what you think is a great format for viewing a lot of pictures?

The reason I ask is that I don't want to have to spend a lot of time developing and/or modifying another website as it will cut into the time I have to work on pictures.

Edited to add that I like worth1000.com but making a site that looks like that is out of my league.

by danlm

I have my own hosting service which I have just started, but have no customers. But, the point I was trying to make is. There are organizational programs out there that are dirt cheap. What you would do is load your pictures into a directory, point the application at the directory. and this would create thumbnails for you and index.html documents that you could load to your web site.

http://www.photodex.com/products/compupic/

Actually, this is a better link for this application. It details out the features.
http://www.photodex.com/products/compupic/features.html
[i]Share Online

* Integrated e-mail make sending files easy
* Automatically generates web pages
* Upload photos to popular online photo sharing sites like PictureCD.com. Supports more photo sharing sites than any other application
* Send Digital Greeting Cards
* Order postcarts using AmazingMail.com
* Order poster sized prints using Bignose.com [/i}
That's 39 dollars. You don't have to know anything about html to deal with it. Does all the work for ya. You might need to create to 1 index.html that has links to each of the index pages, but other then that. No big deal.

Any web site would work. Even the freebee's from geocity.

Chuckle, see. I didn't even try to get you to use my hosting. roflmao

With regard to you sharing over 1000 pictures. Your main problem there is the amount of disk space you are allocated for the web page. If you are after the showing of that many images, then you may need to pay for a web site to host your pictures because they are going to offer more space. But, shoot. Web pages are dirt cheap. I think I was only going to charge(yea, I'm still setting up) 10 dollars for a web page space offering 75 meg. And I know there are other web hosting services out there that offer around the same amount if not more space for around that amount of money.

dan

by ontheropes

The folder that I'd turn into slideshows or thumbnails has 9,960 pictures and is 1.38GB in size.

I'll have to "go pro" for $25.00 at photobucket for the unmetered bandwidth, if I have many viewers, even if I keep using slide.com, .

I should just get out the plastic and "go pro" already but I'll probably wait until I break it.

by gadgetgirl

I was looking forward to that.

Really. Honestly.

But the dang thing won't let me passed photo 40, no matter what.....

GG

(I know I owe you a pm, too - like I said to jd, it's been a helluva month)

by ontheropes

That was weird. It stopped at 40 for me too. 'Twas working fine the last time I looked at it.

I just went back to "slide" copied the code to paste into my site again and the slideshow shows all of the pictures again.

I also found that it will display animations in a seperate window if I click on the picture. I can just place a caption underneath the picture informing the viewer.

This might be a good solution for me unless it's going to break a lot. I can upload en masse to photobucket, something not offered by "slide", and place a link to different slideshows on a website.

I'm looking forward to your pm whenever you get around to it.

Edited to remove broken emoticon.

by cactus pete

If you like controlling your own site, try Gallery, just released 2.2, and can be found at sf.net or gallery.menalto.com (I think it's .com).

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