Re: Porta Web Gallery Creator

2006-02-02 Thread Pat Kong
Hmmm. I had some concerns about the size of the gallery pics, but the thumbnails are 5kb each and the the images are 70kb roughly. But I figured if Shel was on dial-up and didn't have any problems, things should be fine. I find it difficult to test page loading times these days when I no

Re: Porta Web Gallery Creator

2006-02-02 Thread Pat Kong
That's ok, Don. That's the purpose of anonymity on the 'Net. g Thanks for standing up for me, Shel. I threw together another gallery just for fun. http://patkong.jangness.com/berkeley_album/ The source images are not up to par with first gallery, but that's not the point. Is this what you

Re: Porta Web Gallery Creator

2006-02-02 Thread Lasse Karlsson
From: Pat Kong [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 12:28 PM Subject: Re: Porta Web Gallery Creator That's ok, Don. That's the purpose of anonymity on the 'Net. g Thanks for standing up for me, Shel. I threw together another gallery just for fun

Re: Porta Web Gallery Creator

2006-02-02 Thread Pat Kong
Hi Lasse, It looks like I can add as many lines of text as I want to, as long as I remember how to code a little HTML. I found out that in the captions box, I can separate different lines by using br tags. Didn't find a limit. This is a really fun program. Pat in SF --- Lasse Karlsson [EMAIL

Re: Porta Web Gallery Creator

2006-02-02 Thread Shel Belinkoff
Yes, and different browsers are more or less forgiving. It's a good idea to run the code through W3C's HTML validation service, or a similar service. For those who are not familiar with the service: http://validator.w3.org/ or do a Google search on HTML validation/validator to find other

Re: Porta Web Gallery Creator

2006-02-02 Thread Shel Belinkoff
The thumbs on the one gallery I created are about 3KB, the main pics are 70KB. I've gotten into the code and made a few minor changes, cleaned up the skin quite a bit. It's looking better, more to my liking. I may put up a small gallery in a few days Shel [Original Message] From: Pat

Re: Porta Web Gallery Creator

2006-02-02 Thread Shel Belinkoff
Hi, Well, it is simpler, but I'm not crazy about that style particularly. I can see a few ways it can be improved a bit (for my taste, anyway) while still maintaining a nice simple, clean, uncluttered look. Shel [Original Message] From: Pat Kong That's ok, Don. That's the purpose of

Re: Porta Web Gallery Creator

2006-02-02 Thread Shel Belinkoff
Thanks, Paul. Patsy's put up an example of the non-thumbs version, and that was helpful too. Autorun seems like a good idea ;-)) Shel [Original Message] From: Paul Sorenson You can eliminate the frames by deselecting the Thumbs at the options window. This lets you generate pages with

Re: Porta Web Gallery Creator

2006-02-02 Thread Eactivist
In a message dated 2/2/2006 2:31:27 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks for standing up for me, Shel. I threw together another gallery just for fun. http://patkong.jangness.com/berkeley_album/ The source images are not up to par with first gallery, but that's not the

Re: Porta Web Gallery Creator

2006-02-02 Thread Eactivist
In a message dated 2/1/2006 11:09:52 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've been coding HTML for years but I tend to avoid it these days. Perhaps I'm getting lazy as well, or maybe I'm just trying to be more productive :) I do keep a very close eye on what the software

Re: Porta Web Gallery Creator

2006-02-02 Thread Pat Kong
Actually, I miss the frames in the 2nd version only because the index page went with them. I like seeing what's ahead of me and if it's too much to view at one time, I'll come back. Pat in SF --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's quicker, too bad it doesn't create an index thumbnail page. You

Re: Porta Web Gallery Creator

2006-02-01 Thread Shel Belinkoff
Yes, Bill, I know that remember, you were the first to teach me the basics of HTML. I've written a few web galleries by hand, but hell, if I'm gonna use a program, then I want it to be able to do such things, otherwise I'd just set up a template and do it myself ;-)) I'm getting lazy in my

Re: Porta Web Gallery Creator

2006-02-01 Thread Mark Roberts
Pat Kong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you for introducing this program. With practically no imaging experience, I found this program very easy to use with respect to re-sizing, caption placement, and assembly. I took image files straight off the card ran them through the program and voila! A

RE: Porta Web Gallery Creator

2006-02-01 Thread Don Sanderson
@pdml.net Subject: Re: Porta Web Gallery Creator Pat Kong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you for introducing this program. With practically no imaging experience, I found this program very easy to use with respect to re-sizing, caption placement, and assembly. I took image files straight

RE: Porta Web Gallery Creator

2006-02-01 Thread Shel Belinkoff
Hi Don Pat is a woman ;-)) Shel [Original Message] From: Don Sanderson Mark, his first frame has been set as an introduction, no pic. Clicking on 'next' brings up the first pic. Works fine for me, some nice pics too. ;-) Don -Original Message- From: Mark Roberts

RE: Porta Web Gallery Creator

2006-02-01 Thread Don Sanderson
a floppy! ;-) Don -Original Message- From: Shel Belinkoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 2:06 AM To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Subject: Re: Porta Web Gallery Creator Yes, Bill, I know that remember, you were the first to teach me the basics

RE: Porta Web Gallery Creator

2006-02-01 Thread Shel Belinkoff
I've had a brief chat with Patsy off-list. She's sold, and I like the smallness of the program. Will give it a try later today. Shel [Original Message] From: Don Sanderson Shel, Porta has an option to load an existing albumn. Just change the pics in the source folder and use the

Re: Porta Web Gallery Creator

2006-02-01 Thread Eactivist
In a message dated 2/1/2006 5:24:42 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've had a brief chat with Patsy off-list. She's sold, and I like the smallness of the program. Will give it a try later today. Shel On dial-up, I find the picture loading pretty slow (from

Re: Porta Web Gallery Creator

2006-02-01 Thread Shel Belinkoff
Loads pretty quick on my dial-up connection. I prefer a simpler layout and simple HTML as well, but this is fast and allows one to put up a gallery in minutes, especially for someone with no coding experience. Shel [Original Message] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On dial-up, I find the picture

Re: Porta Web Gallery Creator

2006-02-01 Thread Eactivist
In a message dated 2/1/2006 8:04:15 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Loads pretty quick on my dial-up connection. I prefer a simpler layout and simple HTML as well, but this is fast and allows one to put up a gallery in minutes, especially for someone with no coding

Re: Porta Web Gallery Creator

2006-02-01 Thread Shel Belinkoff
@pdml.net Date: 2/1/2006 8:12:43 AM Subject: Re: Porta Web Gallery Creator In a message dated 2/1/2006 8:04:15 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Loads pretty quick on my dial-up connection. I prefer a simpler layout and simple HTML as well, but this is fast and allows one

Re: Porta Web Gallery Creator

2006-02-01 Thread Paul Sorenson
You can eliminate the frames by deselecting the Thumbs at the options window. This lets you generate pages with the main images only. Of course, that eliminates any index page, too. One feature that this version has that was not included in the earlier versions is autorun. You can burn the

Re: Porta Web Gallery Creator

2006-02-01 Thread Don Sanderson
My apologies Pat!! I thought about this right _after_ engaging my mouth and just _before_ engaging my brain! ;-( Don Shel Belinkoff Wed, 01 Feb 2006 05:15:09 -0800 Hi Don Pat is a woman ;-)) Shel [Original Message] From: Don Sanderson Mark, his first frame has been set as an

RE: Porta Web Gallery Creator

2006-02-01 Thread Don Sanderson
Sorry Pat! ;-( Engaged mouth before brain. Don -Original Message- From: Shel Belinkoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 7:14 AM To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Subject: RE: Porta Web Gallery Creator Hi Don Pat is a woman ;-)) Shel

Re: Porta Web Gallery Creator

2006-02-01 Thread David Mann
On Feb 1, 2006, at 9:05 PM, Shel Belinkoff wrote: Yes, Bill, I know that remember, you were the first to teach me the basics of HTML. I've written a few web galleries by hand, but hell, if I'm gonna use a program, then I want it to be able to do such things, otherwise I'd just set up

Porta Web Gallery Creator

2006-01-31 Thread Don Sanderson
Just tried Porta, which was recomended in the recent Web Page thread. Simple, effective and VERY, VERY fast! It's here: http://www.stegmann.dk/mikkel/porta/ While you're there check out his other stuff, like Barnack: http://www.stegmann.dk/mikkel/barnack/ Pretty cool, and all free. ;-) Don

RE: Porta Web Gallery Creator

2006-01-31 Thread Shel Belinkoff
Hi Don, Have you - or has anyone - put up a few pages made with Porta? Got a link? Although I've not tried this program yet, I'm sometimes amazed at how good some of the free programs are. Spybot and Irfanview come immediately to mind, but there are a few others that I use as well. Shel

RE: Porta Web Gallery Creator

2006-01-31 Thread Don Sanderson
the features. http://www.dsanderson.com/PortaTest/ Don -Original Message- From: Shel Belinkoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 6:55 PM To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Subject: RE: Porta Web Gallery Creator Hi Don, Have you - or has anyone - put up a few

Re: Porta Web Gallery Creator

2006-01-31 Thread Sunny Chung
OMG this is the most useful program ever!! I have a website, and I'm running the coppermine gallery php template and it is s slow. I can't believe this is free. I love it! I love PDML!

RE: Porta Web Gallery Creator

2006-01-31 Thread Shel Belinkoff
://www.dsanderson.com/PortaTest/ Don -Original Message- From: Shel Belinkoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 6:55 PM To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Subject: RE: Porta Web Gallery Creator Hi Don, Have you - or has anyone - put up a few pages made

Re: Porta Web Gallery Creator

2006-01-31 Thread Pat Kong
Don, Thank you for introducing this program. With practically no imaging experience, I found this program very easy to use with respect to re-sizing, caption placement, and assembly. I took image files straight off the card ran them through the program and voila! A gallery was born.

Re: Porta Web Gallery Creator

2006-01-31 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: Shel Belinkoff Subject: RE: Porta Web Gallery Creator The other thing that's important for me is being able to simply add a photo or two without having to redo the whole process. And it would be nice if the photo could be placed anywhere in the queue

Re: RE: Porta Web Gallery Creator

2006-01-31 Thread Sunny Chung
Actually its really easy to add more photos and edit other setting in your existing album.