Hosted gallery / site tool -- Tell me what you guys want!!

[xxxjay]

Originally Posted by Greenguy

I don't know much about the gallery side of things, but I'd say as far as HFS's go, title, URL & description is all anyone would need.

Cool...so, I think everyone agrees we like pre-written descriptions....I like them too.

[[BV]]

Originally Posted by xxxjay

Cool...so, I think everyone agrees we like pre-written descriptions....I like them too.

Yes, in different lengths also.

We offer 5 sizes for each gallery:
2 word (25 character max)
3 word (45 character max)
30 character (30 character max)
45 character (45 character max)
55 character (55 character max)

As far as fields options you will need:
Gallery URL
Gallery Description
Gallery Thumb URL
Number of pics and vids
Number of pics
Number of vids
Category

Also make sure to have an option to export all galleries for all your sites. This is one thing that NATS won't do. (last i checked)
Exporting 20 lists for a sponsor that has 20 sites can be time consuming.

This is a little screenshot of what our custom exporting tool looks like:

[Halfdeck]

I know this doesn't apply to OC Cash, but what gets me is a sponsor displaying mulitple gallery links with the same content, just different templates. I don't care about different templates; when I'm batch importing links, I dont want to go through each url just to weed out dupes.

[Simon]

Originally Posted by Halfdeck

I know this doesn't apply to OC Cash, but what gets me is a sponsor displaying mulitple gallery links with the same content, just different templates. I don't care about different templates; when I'm batch importing links, I dont want to go through each url just to weed out dupes.

Thanks for bringing this one up!

I only caught on to this after I'd already imported thousands of galleries filled with duplicate content into one of my databases. I review all hosted sites and galleries, just as if they were submissions, and seeing 5 or 6 "versions" of almost every gallery really pissed me off. Thousands of galleries turned into hundreds instead (and almost turned into none at all when I considered just deleting all of them).

I think a lot of sponsors don't realize some of the things that can prevent a LL or TGP/MGP owner from using their hosted content, or from making as much use of it as they'd probably both like.

Simon

[Greenguy]

Originally Posted by xxxjay

Cool...so, I think everyone agrees we like pre-written descriptions....I like them too.

OHHHH! I never said I liked the pre-written descriptions. I write all my own

But I do realize that others do like them & that they are needed

[xxxjay]

Originally Posted by Greenguy

OHHHH! I never said I liked the pre-written descriptions. I write all my own

But I do realize that others do like them & that they are needed

Ok, you had me scared there for a minute...last I remembered you were pretty militant about writing your own descriptions.

Good to see you haven't gotten lazy in your middle age!

[Greenguy]

Originally Posted by xxxjay

Ok, you had me scared there for a minute...last I remembered you were pretty militant about writing your own descriptions.

Good to see you haven't gotten lazy in your middle age!

To me, it's just common sense. It's taken me a long time to get my reviewers all on the same page as me so that most of the descriptions follow the same flow.

Plus, if you get 100 link lists using the same text, it might be frowned upon in certain SE circles - so I just take the time to review the site (which is always a good idea - and another topic for discussion, since a lot of sponsor can't code their links properly) & my text is different from everyone elses....until someone copies my pages

[Simon]

Originally Posted by xxxjay

Cool...so, I think everyone agrees we like pre-written descriptions....I like them too.

Well...except GG of course (but you know that).

I like writing descriptions. And I rewrite some of the sponsor-supplied ones since some are really bad. But I like the idea of supplied descriptions (good ones!) because then I can dump everything 'as is' into a database for one site, while importing and writing/rewriting the descriptions for another site.

That way, even if someone leaves one site and goes to the other, it doesn't seem like a list of the same galleries/sites if the description text is different. Each site can be built with differing queries and sorting options so that the listings don't look much alike at all, even without taking the site design into account.

(Note: yes, of course it's even better if the content is actually different.)

Really, I just wanted to say that even those who like to write their own descriptions can sometimes find a use for pre-written ones too.

Simon