pro's and con's of having a web site

goodday david
i will wait with interest for this to happen
what happens to photos saved in raw form with this sort of thing

steve

Steve,

Same thing as you would have to do to publish - take the RAW image to JPG and then upload - When the images are uploaded we will reduce the size down during the upload (reduce the quality - reduce the size). The reduced quality and size images will be stored on the server to be output in your blogs.

Using products like Picasa make this conversion simple and it also makes the resize really easy - we will have instructions based on Picasa for the image upload function.

If you publish your own pages you would have to manage the convert from RAW and resize in almost the same way. We will just make the publishing part really simple as you will not have to worry about HTML code or have an editor just enter the text and upload the images and it should just work.

I want to integrate OziExplorer plots and waypoints into the Blog system so that you can have maps for your trips and other stuff also. I just need to finish it so you can play and provide the feedback. It should be really great I just need a week or two (full time) to finish it.

Another really simple image resizing utility is.....Image Resizer for xp. Yes a freebie ms product, but it is brilliant. It wont convert from raw to jpg but it will resize any jpg to any size you want.

Peter

Great work David

Any idea what space allocation per membership will be at this stage?

Keep up the great work.

Sounds like fun David!

Noel,

Space allocation is one of those items I have to work out. With over 1250 current members it could mean a lot of space & bandwidth. I expect to resize images to around 50KB each, I do not expect every member will use it (unknown percentage at this stage), The database model will be as efficient as possible. Even 1MB each is 1.2GB - this is not enough space per user however I believe I will allocate a slab of the server disk (for images) and db space (for text) and see how it runs for a while to determine the best allocation. So I guess if you read into my answer there will be no real limits applied in the first release and we will see how it is used across the board. It may be a case of if someone wants/uses a heap of space then they may be required to pay a little more (maybe use cash, member money or contribute a trek note or article etc) - again all this is speculation, however like most items on ExplorOz (Trader & Pointplace) we give away a certain amount and then if you want to use it more then we get you to subsidise your usage (either financial or via provision of content).

I must get to work now so that I can have a chance of looking at completing this feature.

Ok David - thanks for the detailed response. I know what it's like as far as allocating space goes, being a network admin myself.

Good luck with the project.

David

This is a blog site bigpond gives to it's members, if you want a look at it
http://floyd.bigblog.com.au/blog.do#

Richard

Plugger, I read of your experiences some years ago, and couldn't find it again on the net. So I've read it again. That spinifex is nasty stuff :((

your still payin people to do it!??

Yep. It is an easier outcome for me