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rpcrowe
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My wife has a webpage which she uses to support our rescue dog program; American Maltese Rescue...
www.julemaltese.com
This web page provides information to prospective adopters, showcases the dogs which are presently up for adoption and also features an adoption questionaire which can be filled out online. She gets the questionaire when the person fills it out on line. This works quite well.
The problem seems to be updating the photos of the dogs who are eligible for adoption. This needs to be a very fluid section since the dogs often change day to day. It sometimes takes a day or more for the website designer to update a photo. We then might feature dogs who have already been adopted and not have images of the dogs who are up for adoption on our site. The day or two lag time might just be the time when someone desiring a dog like one we have for adoption but, whose image is not on our website visits that site. I just visited our site and all the dogs featured have been adopted and we have several adoptable dogs who are not on that site.
There are a large number of dogs up for adoption in the world today. Getting the word out about the dogs we have in a timely manner is essential to give our rescues the best chance of getting their "forever homes".
Right now, she sends JPEG images to the site designer via file transfer protocal (FTP) and he inserts them into the website. The charge is five dollars per change.
Unfortunately, when he manipulates the images for webpage insertion they often lose quality.
Additionally, we would like to be able to quickly change images on a daily basis and would like to have control of those images.
Thirdly, we would not mind eliminating the five dollar fee per change.
When I post images on any website forum, I usually do so by using Smugmug and using an embeddable link like this:
The images come out just great and I can go back to the forum and change the image by just editing and inserting a new embeddable link like this:
That is a very easy and fast process and it allows good quality transfer.
Shouldn't it be possible to do the same thing with my wife's web page; perhaps using a smugmug "direct photo link"? I don't think that the guy who built the website ever heard of Smugmug. His reply to my queries about lack of quality is that "This is the only way to do it and you always lose quality putting images on a website." I don't think that should necessarily be true but, I don't know enough about website design to know if or when we could insert images via Smugmug.
www.julemaltese.com
This web page provides information to prospective adopters, showcases the dogs which are presently up for adoption and also features an adoption questionaire which can be filled out online. She gets the questionaire when the person fills it out on line. This works quite well.
The problem seems to be updating the photos of the dogs who are eligible for adoption. This needs to be a very fluid section since the dogs often change day to day. It sometimes takes a day or more for the website designer to update a photo. We then might feature dogs who have already been adopted and not have images of the dogs who are up for adoption on our site. The day or two lag time might just be the time when someone desiring a dog like one we have for adoption but, whose image is not on our website visits that site. I just visited our site and all the dogs featured have been adopted and we have several adoptable dogs who are not on that site.
There are a large number of dogs up for adoption in the world today. Getting the word out about the dogs we have in a timely manner is essential to give our rescues the best chance of getting their "forever homes".
Right now, she sends JPEG images to the site designer via file transfer protocal (FTP) and he inserts them into the website. The charge is five dollars per change.
Unfortunately, when he manipulates the images for webpage insertion they often lose quality.
Additionally, we would like to be able to quickly change images on a daily basis and would like to have control of those images.
Thirdly, we would not mind eliminating the five dollar fee per change.
When I post images on any website forum, I usually do so by using Smugmug and using an embeddable link like this:
The images come out just great and I can go back to the forum and change the image by just editing and inserting a new embeddable link like this:
That is a very easy and fast process and it allows good quality transfer.
Shouldn't it be possible to do the same thing with my wife's web page; perhaps using a smugmug "direct photo link"? I don't think that the guy who built the website ever heard of Smugmug. His reply to my queries about lack of quality is that "This is the only way to do it and you always lose quality putting images on a website." I don't think that should necessarily be true but, I don't know enough about website design to know if or when we could insert images via Smugmug.
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from your Smugmug site. That's a simple html change which can be done in
a couple minute. But a new dog looks like it also needs to be linked to a
new entry on another page. The photo there can be the same img link.
<img src="http://yoursite.smugmug.com/photos/XXXXXXXX_xxxxx-M.jpg" />
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