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wankmaster · 2005-09-16, 08:31 AM

Hi,

wrt to GalleryCollector, this is my website.
I'm puzzled by the negative reaction I'm seeing here as I had assumed it was 100% advantage to the webmaster, so maybe there's a misunderstanding on my part?

Let me explain exactly what it does.

I surfer sees a gallery that he likes enough to want to "bookmark" it. He can always add it to "My favorites" in IE, but GalleryCollector gives him the option to do something better.
On clicking "collect", there is a one time "hotlink" to the thumbs only.He selects one thumb, which gets resized and copied to the server. That's it. The thumbs are not hotlinked after that, and the large images are NEVER hotlinked. I don't think you need to go rushing for the .htaccess ;-).

The surfer collects galleries he likes and then goes to post them on boards and yahoo groups. There is no hotlinking involved at this stage or any point after. To see your gallery or large images the surfer must always return to your gallery, which of course has your ads, ref codes etc. Any sales you get go to you.

I'd say that's pure advantage to any webmaster, but I may be missing something.

A lot of webmasters run yahoo groups and boards, and spam their own galleries onto them. When links to my galleries end up on boards or yahoo groups I'm pretty happy about it.

A showed this to a few webmasters and they all thought it was cool and have started to use it to make their own pages with their own galleries and spam them to yahoo and msn.

To reply to the first poster, he objects that it doesn't link back to his home page? Well I always put a link on my galleries back to my home page, so I'm assuming he has a reason not to? I don't know.

Finally I have written a webmaster program that would allow anyone to create these types of pages with their own, or sponsor hosted galleries and include a banner at the top back to their own site. I just haven't released this yet.

If you can, please take a moment to look at the site and understand exactly what it does, and think about the advantages and any disadvantages.

I'm not out to piss anyone off here, and I'd welcome any feedback. If you think it's a "bad thing" please let me know why.

thanks in advance.

2005-09-16, 08:31 AM	#8
wankmaster Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand! Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 96	Hi, wrt to GalleryCollector, this is my website. I'm puzzled by the negative reaction I'm seeing here as I had assumed it was 100% advantage to the webmaster, so maybe there's a misunderstanding on my part? Let me explain exactly what it does. I surfer sees a gallery that he likes enough to want to "bookmark" it. He can always add it to "My favorites" in IE, but GalleryCollector gives him the option to do something better. On clicking "collect", there is a one time "hotlink" to the thumbs only.He selects one thumb, which gets resized and copied to the server. That's it. The thumbs are not hotlinked after that, and the large images are NEVER hotlinked. I don't think you need to go rushing for the .htaccess ;-). The surfer collects galleries he likes and then goes to post them on boards and yahoo groups. There is no hotlinking involved at this stage or any point after. To see your gallery or large images the surfer must always return to your gallery, which of course has your ads, ref codes etc. Any sales you get go to you. I'd say that's pure advantage to any webmaster, but I may be missing something. A lot of webmasters run yahoo groups and boards, and spam their own galleries onto them. When links to my galleries end up on boards or yahoo groups I'm pretty happy about it. A showed this to a few webmasters and they all thought it was cool and have started to use it to make their own pages with their own galleries and spam them to yahoo and msn. To reply to the first poster, he objects that it doesn't link back to his home page? Well I always put a link on my galleries back to my home page, so I'm assuming he has a reason not to? I don't know. Finally I have written a webmaster program that would allow anyone to create these types of pages with their own, or sponsor hosted galleries and include a banner at the top back to their own site. I just haven't released this yet. If you can, please take a moment to look at the site and understand exactly what it does, and think about the advantages and any disadvantages. I'm not out to piss anyone off here, and I'd welcome any feedback. If you think it's a "bad thing" please let me know why. thanks in advance.