Problems with the painful procedure for placing pictures...

[Spitfire]

Okay, I thought that originally we were planning to be able to upload pictures directly to the Gauge's server. In fact I thought that was one of the main reasons to spend money on a dedicated server as opposed to using one of the free forum sites out there.

Now I find we are having to link to pictures hosted remotely. Okay, I have my own server space, and although that adds an extra step to the posting process, I can live with it.

However, since photo's are posted remotely, i see NO REASON for any limitations on file size. There should be none of that squeezing or cropping going on. The only reason for placing a limit on pic size is if they are being hosted here at the Gauge. Which they're not.

If this is going to operate with the same restrictions as there are at a FREE forum, than what was the point spending all that extra money, in which I have a vested interest, to have a dedicated server???????

Val

We can - whenever you post a picture in a post - it's going to big blue's part of the server.. not in the gallery. I just set the display size to 2000 X 2000 and the size is now 250 k (not 125 k)

Let me know (With Links Please) if this fixes or messes anything up..

I think tomustang is right though - this may be something in the programming of the board itself. And were here ona private server so we don't have slowdowns for picture loading and page loading during peak hours, and also for pat's help in coding all this,. If Don & I were doing this (Learning as we go) we wouldn't be open yet

We have nowhere near the time or knowledge Pat has as far as detailed coding and server operation.. and we need that whenever there is a problem.. Like this one...

And who said we "have" to link remotely, or was that the size restrictions here?? I may have just fixed that

Let me know if anything is wrong.. With links!!! We really NEED to see what the problems are.....

Thanks!!!!!!!

Hey Mikey

I posted 2 photo's here: http://www.the-gauge.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=535

They are hosted on my own server (Parkdale Yard) and should look like this:
http://www.parkdaleyard.com/houses4.jpg
http://www.parkdaleyard.com/houses5.jpg

When I first posted the photos in the Scratchpad, the forum software was cropping off the right side of the photo. Now, it is horizaontally compressing the photo instead.

I have a lot of photo's I would like to post here. They're already uploaded to my server, so I wasn't expecting to have any problems. I really don't have the time to open them all up in Photoshop and re-size them to fit what seems to be changing parameters anyway.

I have a suggestion. First, it makes sense to have a size restriction on any photo's that are uploaded directly to the Gauge servers - ie the Gallery section. I would suggest that you make it 600 x 400 or 800 x 600 - standard sizes on Photobucket.

For photo's that are remotely hosted, there should be no size restrictions.

You mentioned that bigger photos mean there may be complaints from some people about having to scroll. So, to accommodate this possibility, it actually means that I have to spend hours re-sizing and re-uploading all my images just because a few people can't be bothered to scroll!!!! And this isn't even a real issue yet, just something you anticipate. It hardly seems fair to me.

cheers
Val