Will this work for my organization?

animalshelter

Joined: 2002-12-27
Posts: 1

Posted: Fri, 2002-12-27 20:01

Hi, I'm really hoping someone can help me with this. I work for an animal shelter and we are looking for an easy way of posting the photos of all of our animals on our new website. We have over 200 animals at a time. We have used other systems but they are very cumbersome. For one, we have to resize the photo three times (thumbnail, small, and large) and then post them. This takes a huge amount of time...staffing that we just do not have. We are hoping to find something where we can put the photos from the digital camera directly up on the internet and assign them the animal's number. Is this system like that? I have also read that it only works for Windows 2000....we have Windows 95 and some have 98. Will it not work? Also, do we need a large amount of memory or can we simply post the photos on the website and then delete them from our local computer?

Thank you in advance!

vallimar

Joined: 2002-08-15
Posts: 487

Posted: Sat, 2002-12-28 02:47

To answer a couple things:

Gallery will automatically resize the images for you, you just feed it an image
and it will create the medium (if you even want one) and the thumbnail on it's own.
You don't have to create those manually.

As for what OS it needs, that depends on your webserver OS, not your individual
PC's. Although Gallery Remote (not required) runs on individual PC's and I'm not
aware of it's requirements atm.

Gallery 1.3.2 has made great strides in the reduction of memory usuage.
If you are only planning on having around 200 photos up at any one time
then you won't need a great deal. I'm running a few thousand photos off
of ~350 MB Ram myself atm. It depends on what else you have running,
naturally, which might also be hogging memory.

Once you upload the photos into Gallery, you can delete any copies you have sitting
outside the webserver. However, unless you back up the photos before removing
the album, then they will be gone for good if you don't have other copies.
I wouldn't think this would be much of an issue if you are running an adoption
center though. I'm guessing you don't need the photo once the animal is gone.

animalshelter Joined: 2002-12-27 Posts: 1	Posted: Fri, 2002-12-27 20:01
	Hi, I'm really hoping someone can help me with this. I work for an animal shelter and we are looking for an easy way of posting the photos of all of our animals on our new website. We have over 200 animals at a time. We have used other systems but they are very cumbersome. For one, we have to resize the photo three times (thumbnail, small, and large) and then post them. This takes a huge amount of time...staffing that we just do not have. We are hoping to find something where we can put the photos from the digital camera directly up on the internet and assign them the animal's number. Is this system like that? I have also read that it only works for Windows 2000....we have Windows 95 and some have 98. Will it not work? Also, do we need a large amount of memory or can we simply post the photos on the website and then delete them from our local computer? Thank you in advance!
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vallimar Joined: 2002-08-15 Posts: 487	Posted: Sat, 2002-12-28 02:47
	To answer a couple things: Gallery will automatically resize the images for you, you just feed it an image and it will create the medium (if you even want one) and the thumbnail on it's own. You don't have to create those manually. As for what OS it needs, that depends on your webserver OS, not your individual PC's. Although Gallery Remote (not required) runs on individual PC's and I'm not aware of it's requirements atm. Gallery 1.3.2 has made great strides in the reduction of memory usuage. If you are only planning on having around 200 photos up at any one time then you won't need a great deal. I'm running a few thousand photos off of ~350 MB Ram myself atm. It depends on what else you have running, naturally, which might also be hogging memory. Once you upload the photos into Gallery, you can delete any copies you have sitting outside the webserver. However, unless you back up the photos before removing the album, then they will be gone for good if you don't have other copies. I wouldn't think this would be much of an issue if you are running an adoption center though. I'm guessing you don't need the photo once the animal is gone.

Will this work for my organization?

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