Ryan, et al -- ...and then Ryan A said... % % Hey David (my pal with the funny % prefix to replies...:-p )
Hi, Ryan (my ex-logo-drawing-buddy with the non-threading mailer ;-) % Thanks for replying. Sure thing. % % > Why, yes. I call it % > http://web-folio.net/ % % Nice name. Thanks! % % > and it does everything for which you ask and then some. % Kewl, is it free and can i download it and use it on my website? Heh :-) We're selling a service, dude. % % > Just send all of % > your clients to host with me and % > I'll give you a commission ;-) % % Damn, that answers my question, its not free and I cant download and use it % on my website (wahhhh) Yep. % % On a more serious note, nice site mate, but realllly steep on the pocket, % $250 setup fee? my pal sets up It's a start. We can see if the market dictates a change. % computers and furnature for a lot less, and $25 a month for 100mb space? I % know porn friendly sites that % charge less and offer more. Reading prices like that made my right hand jump Ah, but it's not just some space we're offering. Go back and look again (and then please tell me how you missed it and what needs to clarified, because it's supposed to be obvious :-) Think like a person definitely *not* on this list. Your average realtor, interior designer, quilter, flower arranger, jewelry maker, painter, or whomever won't know the first thing (well, perhaps, but not the second thing!) about how to put files on a web site or lay out web pages or even what goes into making a web page. What we do is make it incredibly easy to upload and manage pictures, automatically handle the thumbnailing and layout into pages, and give you plenty of space to do it (100M holds about 500 pix). I know dozens of realtors who each paid $1k for a template site (no indivduality there!) with a glamour shot, a couple of buttons, and maybe another picture. Then they pay $700/yr for basic hosting with no extras. Meanwhile, they don't know how to put up pictures, so they have to find students or, worse yet, pay geeks to upload pictures -- and then they only get room for a dozen or so. In the small business market where people want reliable hosting with no worries just like anyone else but don't have a budget for a designer and a big hosting company, $25/mo is cheap. At least, that's the plan ;-) % for the mouse and find the little % x at the top right of my browser and made me reach for a coke because of the % fright I got! :-D *grin* % I'm pretty sure you wont get anyone off the list purchasing an account and % there are a lot of people out there Well, maybe not, but we're not really targeting the people here. I know that I can't compete on raw price (I don't have the investment capital to create a data center that can handle the volume of customers that it would take to do that), and I don't want to sell geeks because I've seen how demanding and bothersome I am :-) The value definitely has to be in the service. % who pay more for _total_ crap, and your service is good.... so....best of % luck and hope it goes well. Thanks; we do, too. % % % > OK... Having spent quite a bit of time developing our gallery script % > and a bit of looking around at competition, I haven't % > seen anything that % > comes close. % % This sort of an app never really did cross my mind...so i dont know what % your compettion is like, have a couple % of urls? I promise i wont join any of them :-p I don't have 'em handy, I'm afraid. Check hotscripts and the like for any gallery or thumbnail script. % % > In general, though, it's not too tough to check your source % > files and both make the thumbnails and generate their image tags to % > output in the page. % % Yeah, thats what i have been told on the list and off, but I have never % really worked with GD + the image functions Bah. Nor have I; I use ImageMagick :-) % and it seems better to first look around to see if anyone already made this % rather than to try to invent the wheel all over That's a good approach, and a good way to get started quickly. It can bite you in the long run, though. % again, although I agree with Justin saying that while "remaking the wheel" % you will understand the code better and it will % be more specific to your needs. Another problem is I have GD 1 on one server % and GD 2 on another... This is also a good approach, and it can still end up biting you as you grow, so I'm all for the former and then for rewriting from scratch for version two :-) % % I did get a few really helpful souls off the list who sent me code, mainly % for jpg stuff, will try that out. That's why we're all here :-) % % > HTH & HAND & Good luck! % % Sure did, and the same to you dude. Thanks :-) % % Cheers, % -Ryan % HAND :-D -- David T-G * There is too much animal courage in (play) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * society and not sufficient moral courage. (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mary Baker Eddy, "Science and Health" http://justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg!
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