New Photo Management Website

[dappleyard]

Hi There

I'm currently toying with the idea of creating an image uploading website, which will effectively be a free hosting package (with a certain amount of diskspace for holding images etc). You will obviously be able to pay for extra space, and more features.

I was wondering if anyone had any comments on this, what they would like to see in such as website and whether they think it is a worthwhile idea.

Currently, these are my main ideas:

> Ability to manage galleries of photos/images, upload, edit, delete etc

> Have a name and codeword for your gallery, or make it publically viewable

> Probably have space for around 100 photos for free, paying for more space

> The ability to externally link to images

> Integrating with a photo printing service

Here's an idea of the logo for the website

Any comments would be appreciated!

[Hobbes]

Hey I think this would be a really really cool idea If you need anybody to help

design the website than Im here

[dappleyard]

I'm already a fairly proficient designer, so i'm afraid that won't be necessary. Thanks for the offer though, and good luck with that iBook

[pwnzrzpat]

oh that would be just <3ly

[dappleyard]

[dappleyard]

I've now created a sample design for the site:

http://www.hostmyimages.co.uk/?stay=y

Comments would be appreciated!

[mubach]

I am not a coder so I wouldn't be able to tell you how but being able to view EXIF data would be nice, not all images would have it, only ones directly from a compliant camera, but that would be a feature that many wanabe-pros like me would like. Also make sure you pick a good photoprinting service, one that offers both "consumer printing" and "prosumer/pro" printing options, some people get picky on what paper their photos are printed on. So far good job, if this is launched I might give it a go.

[nightcrawler1089]

Well, I definitely like the front page design. Works well, and visually pleasing.

-NC

[pwnzrzpat]

D'you have Enhanced's permission to use his Longhorn Pinstripe icons? I definitely like the design, but the tabs look a little flat to me.

[Guest Jesus Franco]

I think the design is perfect. and you couldn't have picked a better language than php for this free image hosting idea... php seems to be the way most people if not all go when they offer free services since it's cheaper to host.

[dappleyard]

Thanks for the comments. I do have permission for the use of the icons, I made sure of that . I'm still working on the tabs - They are the only area I'm not happy with really.

@ Franco - PHP is the language I always use, for all my web programming. I think it's incredibly versatile, and MySQL has got to be one of the best databases out there!

The service will be free to an extent. There will be a free package, which will give you sometime like 100mb of storage space. Then, you will have to upgrade to a paid account (probably £2.49/month).

One thing I really need to get hold of are some good PHP Image Resizing scripts, for creating thumbnails of the images etc. Does anyone have any good links?

[kjwebb]

Try looking at codewalkers.com

[riot]

hey the design looks great, but i agree with the tabs need work. i hope this idea gets off on the right foot, im looking forward to it

[dappleyard]

OK - I've tried to fix the tabs - Do you think they look better now?

Thanks for the link kjwebb

I found this - http://phpthumb.sourceforge.net/, which looks good - I think I'll use that to integrate thumbnails etc into the site.

I'll keep everyone posted on progression in this thread - Comments are still welcome on that sample design.

Edit> New Site URL is http://www.hostmyimages.co.uk/?stay=y

[riot]

that simple gradient made the tabs a LOT more eye-pleasing good job.

[nightcrawler1089]

Tabs are looking much better, but now it seems that there is some extra white around that background area on the right side. You might want to eliminate that (the white behind "what is a codeword," etc...) entirely.

-NC

[dappleyard]

Could I just ask, do you think hostmyimages.co.uk is a good name? - Or do you think I should go down a different route? Some other ideas include:

snap-share.co.uk

image-share.com/.co.uk

i-album.co.uk

albumshare.co.uk

snapandshare.co.uk

[Hobbes]

I think hostmyimages sounds kind of out of the blue yeah, maybe something else

would be a little better.

[dappleyard]

OK, and thanks. Do you have any suggestions?

[wookietv]

my honest opinion is that the colors look a little too washed out... the design of the site is done well though... (4.3 millions hits so far? hmm, someone's fudging the numbers a bit )

[dappleyard]

Fair enough - The colours are fairly simple, but I think they contrast the bright colours of the icons, header images and links etc fairly well. - The numbers are a sample - Maybe after a couple of years....

Anyone got any name ideas?

[liquidplasmaflow]

How about iSnaps?

[dappleyard]

Hmm - I like that! - And the new name is decided upon

[pwnzrzpat]

iMage

[dappleyard]

something makes me think that could be taken already

I've ordered isnaps.co.uk, so that should be changing over soon

Now then, any other requests/would like to see things?