[AccessD] OT: Web site photo album

A picture made up of other pictures.  In this case my two cutie pies.

;)

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com


Max Wanadoo wrote:
> What's a collage?
> 
> Max
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> 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,
>>>
>>>