all of the cheap search tools require that each image be on a page of its own with all of the right keywords in the HTML. if i put more than one image on a page, then they will have to search manually within the page. so regular web search engines are out. i also don't want them to have hits from pages outside my site. third thing is that my images fit into more than one category. i have location categories, subject categories, and time (of day, of year, etc) categories too. this is equivalent to saying that my images have a bunch of keywords assigned to them. someone may want winter waterfall shots of the Catskills in the morning. search and up comes my list of photos having those keywords. i want the generated web site to let me browse by all of these categories (keywords) and to search by them. i don't want duplicated image files if an image belongs to more than one category. that means whatever manages the site has to use a database of some kind. that also means that mos! t search engines can't deal with the site because the web pages are generated on the fly. this can be done by hand for a couple of hundred images at most. for about 10,000 images, you have to do this using a database and some software. IMatch seems to have the browsing part built into its HTML export, but not the searching part.
Herb.... ----- Original Message ----- From: "tom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 12:26 Subject: RE: Image Management > > 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. >
