Greenguy's Board - View Single Post - Hosted gallery / site tool -- Tell me what you guys want!!

Simon · 2006-05-10, 08:08 AM

Hiya Jay ... and thanks for asking.

Preacher - I'm with you on wanting all the information I can get. I'd download the type (movie/pics/mixed) and the number of pics/movies too. I like when the sponsor has their name as one of the fields. And the name of the paysite which the hosted gallery or free site is promoting.

A few sponsors have a field with several keywords that apply to the gallery or site too. I like that since I manually add keywords anyway. That's a great feature if you build category pages using queries instead of just by the one category assigned to the gallery/site.

QuickDraw - You're right about not skimping on the descriptions. They don't need to be longer than 100 characters (maybe less for some people), but they need to be well-written descriptions. Making it easy to grab all of them is another problem a lot of programs seem to have. Why would I want to copy HFS links one at a time, or worse, from multiple fields for every single HFS?

(I usually wind up copying the source code into a text editor and running some grep searches to massage it into a usable import file. But I don't go back for more regularly like I do with the places with make it very easy to get what I want.)

I'm seeing too many hosted free sites with the name of the paysite as the title of the free site. Bad move. Each hosted free site needs it's own title. Why don't more sponsors know the basics? Some people write or rewrite the decsriptions, but we're stuck with the titles that actually appear on the free sites.

Jay - I'm sure you know a lot of this, but you can really make your hosted stuff stand out if you take the time to make them as good as the best independent free site builders are making these days.

Personally, I want as much info as I can get when I build the export list of a sponsor's hosted sites or galleries. I may build more than one site from the contents of my database(s), and being able to present a different set of information on each site can help make them appear to be "more different" while still pulling from the same central content source.

Thanks again for asking.

Simon

2006-05-10, 08:08 AM	#7
Simon That which does not kill us, will try, try again. Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Conch Republic Posts: 5,150	Hiya Jay ... and thanks for asking. Preacher - I'm with you on wanting all the information I can get. I'd download the type (movie/pics/mixed) and the number of pics/movies too. I like when the sponsor has their name as one of the fields. And the name of the paysite which the hosted gallery or free site is promoting. A few sponsors have a field with several keywords that apply to the gallery or site too. I like that since I manually add keywords anyway. That's a great feature if you build category pages using queries instead of just by the one category assigned to the gallery/site. QuickDraw - You're right about not skimping on the descriptions. They don't need to be longer than 100 characters (maybe less for some people), but they need to be well-written descriptions. Making it easy to grab all of them is another problem a lot of programs seem to have. Why would I want to copy HFS links one at a time, or worse, from multiple fields for every single HFS? (I usually wind up copying the source code into a text editor and running some grep searches to massage it into a usable import file. But I don't go back for more regularly like I do with the places with make it very easy to get what I want.) I'm seeing too many hosted free sites with the name of the paysite as the title of the free site. Bad move. Each hosted free site needs it's own title. Why don't more sponsors know the basics? Some people write or rewrite the decsriptions, but we're stuck with the titles that actually appear on the free sites. Jay - I'm sure you know a lot of this, but you can really make your hosted stuff stand out if you take the time to make them as good as the best independent free site builders are making these days. Personally, I want as much info as I can get when I build the export list of a sponsor's hosted sites or galleries. I may build more than one site from the contents of my database(s), and being able to present a different set of information on each site can help make them appear to be "more different" while still pulling from the same central content source. Thanks again for asking. Simon __________________ "If you're happy and you know it, think again." -- Guru Pitka