UCD Canoe Club

Committee Announcements => Announcements => Topic started by: Dan on January 06, 2004, 19:00:29

Title: Gallery
Post by: Dan on January 06, 2004, 19:00:29
Hi Guys,
we are approaching the limit of our storage in the gallery. Because of this i'm asking that you not upload any more photo's.....(sorry Eoghan, you'll have to wait)
I'm going to start deleteing old photo albums, basically images older than this and the previous year.
Some questions:

I'll put up a list of albums before i remove them. I will be keeping backups.
cheers
Dan
Title: Gallery
Post by: jesus_jones on January 06, 2004, 19:53:39
condensing the alps photos could be an idea.
Title: Gallery
Post by: Dan on January 06, 2004, 19:56:39
Quote from: "jesus_jones"
condensing the alps photos could be an idea.

Is that an offer?
Title: Gallery
Post by: joxer on January 07, 2004, 08:40:49
Is there any way of storing some of the photos in a comporessed way for pople to download.
Title: Gallery
Post by: slapper on January 07, 2004, 09:03:07
Hey Dan,

I've loadsa photos up. I'll go through my ones and delete a number of them to clear a bit of space.

Is there any way of setting a max file size on the photos that go up? Some photos that are in the gallery are huge. Setting a limit on filesize could help with storage problems.
Title: Gallery
Post by: Brendino on January 07, 2004, 10:05:32
Dan you can get rid of the photos of Ferg and Woody. I think we all have spotted the difference by now even if Nadia hasn't.

I guess you can also get rid of the photos from Lucan and Dun Laoghaire too.
Title: Gallery
Post by: Mr C on January 07, 2004, 15:34:57
lets not delete them forever!! can they be put on another website such as geocities or failing that lets store them on some cd-roms so the club has future access for banter!!
Title: Gallery
Post by: Dan on January 07, 2004, 17:13:49
Hey Guys,
The issue is the amount of space the gallery takes up,
It's currently taking up 279MB in 1173 photos.
I don't think geocities or similar are feasible really, I don't think they give you tht much space, Brendino?

Do we really need to have over 1100 photos online at the same time?
I've made a copy of the gallery which i can burn to cd if anyone wants?

cheers
Dan
Title: Gallery
Post by: Dan on January 09, 2004, 18:19:52
In the process of upgrading the gallery, might see some funkyness in the on the site......
Normal service will resume shortly :wink:
Title: Gallery
Post by: Dan on January 09, 2004, 19:23:14
And we are done!
this new version has a image size limit. I'm not sure what to set it at?
What size is the average image? John you said there were images which were bit to big? Which ones did you mean and how big were they?
From my point of view i don't think setting this will have that big an effect...
There are over a thousand images up, spring cleaning is definitely in order. Anyway the image limit only applies to new images....
Here are some i am thinking of removing.



The alps photos in particular need to be trimed down. There are a few gallerys which have over 50 reasonably high quality photos. These albums are in the order of 7-10MB each.
I'm going to cut mine down when i get a chance.
One other thing you may see a page about updating an album when you open it, this will only happen if you are the first person to view it after the upgrade, just wait for it to finish and it'll be fine.
cheers
Dan
Title: Gallery
Post by: Gringo on January 10, 2004, 11:15:55
Why not just delete the alps photos. Not that i'm bitter or anything
Title: Gallery
Post by: €uroboy on January 11, 2004, 10:02:19
u can go ahead and delete the abovementioned albums of mine dan

andré
Title: Gallery
Post by: Donnie on January 14, 2004, 16:22:45
I have an unusual suggestion for the photo section, why not include some photos of canoeing? From the current galleries all the club seems to do is get dressed up in fancy dress, get pissed, drive to and from rivers, have babies and get haircuts.
Title: Gallery
Post by: jesus_jones on January 14, 2004, 16:27:34
taking pictures of people canoeing is boooring, the best you can hope for is someone getting a beating and even then it's a bit of an anticlimax
check aout http://www.paddlefu.co.ukfor boring paddling stuff
Title: Gallery
Post by: Liz on January 14, 2004, 18:51:31
I think some paddling also good - like Andre's aforementioned Boiiing trip was linked to from a message of Brendino's to show people what surfing Slane wave was like.
Seems they now have enough first-hand experience of the Boyne to last a life time though!
Title: Gallery
Post by: Dan on January 15, 2004, 13:55:09
Hi Guys,
Ok here is the major problem with the gallery. It appears that some photos are being added to the gallery at full resolution. The following Albums are all very large taking up over 50% of the space we have available.
They all seem to have been uploaded straight from the camera without any re-sizing.
Freshers trip 03  
Pool Party
Easky 03
Lahinch Photo's from James
Limerick 03
Ball and stuff  

There is over 150 MB of space takin up by these albums
To put this into perspective that is about 50% of the space taken up by about 15% of the photos.
Here is an example of the size of image
http://gallery.ucdcanoeclub.com/albums/album17/Dsc00733.jpg

I will be deleting these albums, if the owners want to resize them and put them back up thats fine but its not viable to keep them taking up that much space. Nor is it fair to the people who are waiting to upload new photos.
I would ask anyone who has uploaded images to look at their albums and make sure there isn't any large images.

cheers
Dan
Title: Gallery
Post by: cat halpin on January 15, 2004, 17:24:39
agree with donnie. i dont care how many people it took to shave the heads of the boyz in d alps. why not take the top twenty photos from all the alps albums, and just keep them. most of those photos are just scenery, or people sitting around in a campsite. more suited to just being in a personal album than a public gallery me thinks.
Title: Gallery
Post by: Brendino on January 15, 2004, 17:28:38
Not bitter at all are we Cat?

Meee Owwwwwwwww. Saucer of milk to table 5 please.
Title: Gallery
Post by: cat halpin on January 16, 2004, 10:39:00
yup. i have to cut my hair myself!!!!!!
Title: Gallery
Post by: Dan on January 16, 2004, 11:21:17
Quote from: "Dan"

  • André's Easky 2000 Pics
  • André's Boiiing and John's 21st Pics
  • André's Intervarsities 2000 Pics
  • Kilkenny 2002*2
  • André's Una 21st Pics
  • André's Kerry 2000-2001 Pics


Ok I deleted these albums so Mick & Eoghan could upload new photos.
This only freed up 20Mb of space.
I will be deleting over size albums next week  :wink:
cheers
Dan
Title: Gallery
Post by: Dan on January 19, 2004, 18:27:58
Quote from: "Dan"

Freshers trip 03  
Pool Party
Easky 03
Lahinch Photo's from James
Limerick 03
Ball and stuff  

I will be deleting these albums, if the owners want to resize them and put them back up thats fine but its not viable to keep them taking up that much space. Nor is it fair to the people who are waiting to upload new photos.


Ok I deleted the following albums:
Lahinch Photo's from James - 50MB
Freshers trip 03  - 49MB
Pool Party - 13MB
Easky 03 - 13MB
Limerick 03 - 13MB
Ball and stuff  7MB

This album is next on the list, i must have missed it last time
Achill 2003 ~ 6MB

If the owners of the albums want to resize them and re-upload feel free.

cheers
Dan
Title: Gallery
Post by: Brendino on January 27, 2004, 13:58:30
I know that you have sorted out the gallery Dan, but, if you would like to get rid of teh Lucan / DunLaoghaire and Spot the difference photos, you can. I know they don't take up much space, but they could be taking up none. Although it might be nice to some photos of people in boats on a canoe club website? It's up to you.

Is it just me or are there too many Emoticons now. How can we chose.
 :bonedemon:
Title: Gallery
Post by: slapper on January 28, 2004, 09:29:19
Bren,

if you put the gallery up, you are able to take it down too.
You have full control over your own galleries.