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sknowles

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  1. <p><br />Thanks for sharing. I like the Website. I never got around converting my Website to Wordpress for a variety of reasons, but yours is a nice job well done. As for the issues, I wouldn't worry about images if you put up Web versions. People will steal them no matter how much you try to disguise the image filename. With some effort it's relatively easy to download a copy of the original from the Website.</p>
  2. <p>Interesting news, but the key to me isn't selling the film/paper business but the patents and technology of the film and paper, and that's where Kodak will profit, but the buyer could simply decide to pocket the patents and technology or sell rights to companies to produce the products for them. It's all a wait and see who's the buyer and what's their strategy. That's where Chinese companies step into the mix, to own the patents and techology.</p>
  3. <p>I'm selling most of my old camera collection. The classified ad section requires a price, but I'm selling the collection in pieces than all of it as a collection of a dozen camera, two dozen lenses, and peripheral equipment, so when it comes to a price what should I enter?</p>
  4. <p>Thanks for the responses. I read about square (available from the Apple store). The only criticism of the Square is that it's for the consumer and requires more personal information to verify the transactions where the business-based CC reader/apps use proof of business and a fee but don't need the personal information. It's interesting to see the variety of hardware, apps and processing.</p>
  5. <p>I've one or more of each Minolta series made and personally my favorite is the XD-11, the quietest one of the lot with both shutter and aperture priority modes with manual mode. Otherwise, the XE-7 is good but larger and heavier and X-700 with a MD-1 is good even with the electronics. And per chance I have some <a href="http://www.wsrphoto.com/gearsale.html">for sale</a>. I'm still working on the photos and description of each.</p>
  6. <p>I'm interested in people's experience with iPhone credit card readers, apps and service companies. I'm talking to local places to display large prints for sale and likely would have to process credit card purchases (ok, I can hope anyway). So, help appreciated.</p>
  7. <p>It's how you write the html code, or the script-driven html code, by writing the background and top banner first and then any subsequent tables below it. You just repeat the block for every Web page, or in the script, to display the banner and then the tables. Just remember to make everything scrollable so people can move left-right if the banner is wider than their browser window.</p>
  8. <p>I forgot to say it may take up to a week or so for Google to start logging hits to the Website. With respect to, "Now I face the very real probability that no one (except me) is viewing my site (hah), and the implications of that.", that's true. Over the course of a year I've found only a few people visit my ImagePro Website, but then it's a partial replication of my main Website with links to the latter, so I'm not dependent on it for visitors.</p>
  9. <p>Dennis, looking at the script you have in your ImagePro Webpage and the script I and PN uses (the latter is found on the bottom of any ImagePro Webpage) uses, they're different, and I wonder if the problem isn't that it's not your ImagePro Webpage, but the wrong script. Just a thought. You can cut and paste the script PN uses and replace the tracking id sequence with yours and see if it works.</p>
  10. <p>Mine works, but it has a unique identifier in Google Analytics as does each of my blogs and my Website in Google Analytics. You can see how mine's included by viewing the source code for my <a href="http://imagepro.photography.com/wsrphoto">ImagePro</a> Website. You only need to include the script in the main Web page since the Website is script-driven. I did remember it's a tricky thing to enter, taking several tries and saves.</p>
  11. <p>Interesting and why my iPad has both wifi and 3G communications, because wifi isn't everywhere I go and because some business in the area require enrollment or subscription to use their wifi. Starbucks here tried a subscription service through a carrier and dropped it, and several other businesses want to know more about to use their wifi. Using 3G means the only filter is me.</p>
  12. <p>Anyone actually listen to this guy? Really? His mission at the NY Times is to hawk the latest consumer technology and then hawk his books on that same technology. Mention anything prosumer, and especially professional, level stuff and he writes it off as snobbish or the like.</p>
  13. <p>You didn't give a link to see. I haven't updated on blogger yet, but I'll keep this in mind. I usually reduce the image size prior to uploading to Blogger. Blogger uses Picassa to store the images, so I wonder if the problem is something in blogger from Picassa or between the two with some types or sizes of images.</p>
  14. <p>The fix to the back-forth can be done relatively easily in the image map you're using with a "Next" button like the "Back" (back is usually on the left and next on the right) by adding it to the larger image with the image map code. As for optimizing, I've never understood what the does except to configure Web page for faster loading, and that depends the code for the Web page(s). As for suggestions, that's relative to one's taste. I would use larger images than words (words support images which are the invitation to the larger image or portfolio. After that there's a variety of ways to create a slideshow without flash.</p>
  15. <p>I like the images very much, thanks. The full screen desktop version, however, isn't scrollable and those of us who use a smaller window size, the words dominate the display and most of the image is lost off to the right, if the whole image above is meant to be displayed as the opening Web page. I also agree with Mark the mouse doesn't work to scroll left/right in the galleries.</p>
  16. <p>Fred, interesting view, but remember, we don't own the Website, they do, and like any Website, have the right to impose whatever rules and limits they want. We only subscribe, or not, and accept the rules and limits. I was only suggesting for the efficiency of the viewer, that a notice be displayed reminding the photographer that more photos means more download time and an excessive number of photos in one folder won't encourage viewers to download the folder to view the images. It still is, as you note, the user's responsibility. It's also the viewer choice too, and I thought 15,000+ images in one folder is a bit much to wait to download. And it is the Website owners' right to decide for all users and visitors.</p>
  17. <p>Thanks for the response. So, how about an adviory or warning statement when the number of images in a folder reaches a certain level? Such as, "For better efficiency for viewing images, it is recommended that the number of images in a folder not exceed XXX.", or some such words. </p>
  18. <p>I'm curious if folks thought about having a quota on the number of images in a single folder. I asked this because I went to view some images of a photographer and didn't when it noted there were over 15,000 images in the one (single) folder. That's a bunch to download and view, and caused me not to view the folder and consider there should be a quota to help viewers.</p>
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