Suggestion for a Kilt Photo Gallery

[RockyR]

I Agree and think it would be a great tool... there are LOTS of free and some VERY cheap 'photo gallery software' out there. The problem becomes the amount of 'bandwidth' or memory that XMTS has to be able to host all of these pics.

Other potential problems... setting it up so that REGULAR XMTS users could upload the photos themselves and NOT have the mods or Hank have to do it all themselves and write the code / text to make sure the lines are all accurate. I have something VAGUELY similar to what's described here on our site in our customer gallery. Each photo has the name of the tartan picturesd and the style of kilt (casual / Semi Trad / 5 yard wool / Premier). This idea takes it a step further to ask for different shots of the same kilt and the mill / weight / maker / etc.

To expand the idea (which may be TOO broad), maybe we could have a list of tartans in alphabetical order... when you click on the tartan, the pictures of kilts made in that tartan pop up. If there are no kilts made in that tartan that we have pictures of, then it'll just have a 'be the first to add a picture of this tartan' note.

Thoughts?

[svc40bt]

I Agree and think it would be a great tool... there are LOTS of free and some VERY cheap 'photo gallery software' out there. The problem becomes the amount of 'bandwidth' or memory that XMTS has to be able to host all of these pics.

Other potential problems... setting it up so that REGULAR XMTS users could upload the photos themselves and NOT have the mods or Hank have to do it all themselves and write the code / text to make sure the lines are all accurate. I have something VAGUELY similar to what's described here on our site in our customer gallery. Each photo has the name of the tartan picturesd and the style of kilt (casual / Semi Trad / 5 yard wool / Premier). This idea takes it a step further to ask for different shots of the same kilt and the mill / weight / maker / etc.

To expand the idea (which may be TOO broad), maybe we could have a list of tartans in alphabetical order... when you click on the tartan, the pictures of kilts made in that tartan pop up. If there are no kilts made in that tartan that we have pictures of, then it'll just have a 'be the first to add a picture of this tartan' note.

Thoughts?

Great idea, great additions Rocky. I will be glad to provide the required pics of my Hunting MacLeod Semi-Traditional.

[IRISH]

... there are LOTS of free and some VERY cheap 'photo gallery software' out there...

thanks for the additional suggestions, rocky. it certainly wasn't my desire to incur new expenses for the administrators of this forum. typically, my ignorance regarding the amount of money and effort required to operate something like xmts lead me to make the suggestion without even considering additional expenses. guess we'll sit back and see what their input may be.