[AccessD] OT: Web site photo album

What's a collage?

Max


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From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby
Sent: 04 August 2009 21:52
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: Web site photo album

I love that collage.  Some great pictures.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com


Tina Norris Fields wrote:
> John,
> 
> This is truly amazing stuff!  My connection is high-speed wireless 
> broadband and I'm not wholly certain of the upload and download speeds.  
> I did have to wait about 50 seconds for the collage, but it was well 
> worth the wait.  Thanks for sharing all this with us.
> 
> T
> 
> jwcolby wrote:
>> I have rebuilt my Windows Home Server.  One of the things WHS allows is
to add a web page that can 
>> then be accessed from outside of your network.  To see the public face
just go to
>>
>> Colby.Homeserver.com
>>
>> It ended up being fairly trivial to get that working, three port
forwarding entries in the router 
>> and allowing WHS software to do something to the router (scary when you
haven't a clue what that 
>> something is).  WHS uses IIS to then serve up this web page.  Log-in
allows users that you define to 
>> see shares on the server.  Typically it is used to share photos and
video, but it can really be any 
>> directory share in a certain path on WHS, all set up by user / password /
directory / rights.  Oh, 
>> and it also allows a remote access to other machines on the network,
though I haven't gotten there yet.
>>
>> Anyway...
>>
>> The access to the shared directory is usable but crude, photos have to be
"downloaded" and displayed 
>> in an application of your choice on the remote computer.
>>
>> So someone came up with an add-in called WHIIST which allows you to
create a photo album where you 
>> simply create directories and then drag and drop photos into directories,
again in a path specific 
>> to this album, and voila, the visitor sees photos that you place there.
To give you a taste of how 
>> this works I have created a temporary user / password:
>>
>> User: AccessD
>> PW: ^6tfc%5rdx
>>
>> Go to:
>>
>> colby.Homeserver.com
>>
>> and login to see the shared directory where you can add, delete and
modify anything in that directory.
>>
>> which you can use to access specific directories and see some photos at:
>>
>> colby.homeserver.com/AccessD
>>
>>
>> Give it a whirl.  I will be taking this AccessD user down in a day or two
so try it now if you want 
>> to see what WHS and WHIIST can do.
>>
>> This whole AccessD thing took about 20 minutes to get working using this
WHIIST add-in.
>>
>> I have created my own custom user for my extended family, and placed a
huge quantity of photos out 
>> there.  What would be really nice is to be able to add captions etc and
that is where this WHIIST 
>> add-in stops short.  It is EXTREMELY easy to set up, create directories
for "albums", drag photos 
>> in, and you are done... but what you see is what you get.
>>
>> OTOH, this web page is just an IIS creation and so I should be able to
find some other tool for 
>> creating photo albums which has more flexibility.  Which brings me to the
my question, do any of you 
>> folks use an album widget on a web page which has the ability to add
captions and such.  I am not 
>> into complexity so if it is a lot of work I will just stay with what I
have.  The photos are the 
>> objective, captions are just icing, which I would like, but not if the
cost is too high.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>   
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