> -----Original Message----- > From: Herb Chong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > i've downloaded the evaluation version and i am playing > with it. the crucial thing for me is how well it can > publish to the web. i'll use whatever software i can to > manage a searchable web portfolio for selling stock images. > Cumulus does seem like the best, but they aren't willing to > quote a price online for Web Publisher Pro. the regular Web > Publisher is only $499, so i can imagine the Pro version to > at least triple that. only the Pro version has any shopping > cart/sales capabilities though. i hope that IMatch might be > adequate for automatic online catalog creation and let me > configure the HTML so that i can get sent email when > someone wants an image. the generated web site needs to be > fully searchable by keyword and whatever i end up with has > to have that.
That last sentence has me stumped, I'm not sure how I'd go about it. For web publishing I use Breezebrowser. It's main purpose is raw conversion, but it has a very slick html generator. All the galleries I've been posting lately have been done in BB. In a nutshell, you select your images from a directory and hit a couple of buttons. Takes about 3 seconds per image to generate and index page and all the associated sub pages. You can set up various templates for different looks, plus there's one that is set up to hook into a paypal shopping cart. There are various ways to search a website, and I'm no expert on them, however, if your search tool correctly found the right pages (images), and they were set up in BB to use the Paypal shopping cart, that might work. With the tools I'm familiar with I'd probably do this: - each job goes in it's own folder. When downloading you'll have to enter in keywords. - When you want to set up a page on the website pertaining to a specific subject, use Imatch to find the images that match. It'll pull them all up on one thumbnail page. - copy those images to a temp folder - use breeze to create the html. Breeze can place keywords in the html, I think. - upload - your search tool should find that correct pages I haven't found one tool that does everything well, I use BreezeBrowser, SuperJPG, Canon FV, Capture 1, Imatch and PS. tv
