Post #28272 by hanford_lemoore on Thu, Mar 27, 2003 3:30 PM

To answer everyone’s questions:

However, I think it should be divided into sections - just like the message board.

It is divided. Go look at it. I made some changes to it since the “year in pictures” thread.

I was able to post a picture without logging in. Not sure if this is a feature or bug?

It’s not a bug. Programming-wise, The Archives are completely separate from the Bulletin board. The end result though is it’s really not any different than Yahoo, where anyone could join then post.

Maybe in the future you can add section for carvings and art done by the TC ohana?

Great idea. I’ll add that soon.

How were you able to post on January 1, 2020? Tell me, is Tiki Central still here (there?) in 2020?

It’s a server trick I used. The purpose is to make the message “sticky” so it’s always at the top of the forum. It won’t be there forever though, I’ll move it soon.

Is there a way to post a comment under a picture like you can on the Tiki Mug Gallery?

I turned that option off, because I thought it would lead to essentially 2 parallel forums. If the Archives stick to photos and the Forums stick to messages, I think we’ll all be better off. However, I did change the gallery to display the bbcode needed for inserting the photo into a TC message, so you can now copy and paste that. (look for the text just below the photo).

Will this archive be linked from the forum?
I will at some point add a link into the Navbar at the top of the forums to make it easier to get to the archives. I want to see how the beta-test goes first. Is this the type of linking you were thinking of, or were you talking about something more integrated than just a link?

** But is there a way to create new albums within each main album?**

Yes, although I have turned that option off. Perhaps I should turn that on. The permissions system on the gallery code is a little odd, and it either allows for too much control or not enough.

How much space is available?

Well I have a fixed amount of space on the server, but we’ve got lots of room right now. And I can always upgrade the server if we run out.

What kind of size pics should we post?

The “Nice” thing to do is post pictures at screen resolution (640 x 480), esp. if you’re going to be linking them into TC messages. The Archives can scale the images down, but the point is really your photo should be no larger than necessary, in order to keep our HD space to a minimum. Remember, most people are only going to want to look at the picture in their web browser and not print it out. So the pics shouldn’t be large.

Should we continue to post illustrative pics not really meant to be kept permanantly in the way we've been doing for the past few months?

For now, yes. What I would like to have is a Misc. Folder in the Archives that is meant to have photos like that. But I don’t yet. I guess it all depends on how quickly we use up HD space.

Thanks everyone for the comments. Keep them coming.

~Hanford

[ Edited by: hanford_lemoore on 2003-03-27 15:31 ]