[TheForge] NoPhotoaccess and no flypress pics

[Andy Vida]

GHS wrote:
> 
> The real beauty of the photoaccess is that anyone should be able to
> intuit how to put a picture up for view.

	Putting the photos up is easy.  Finding them to view is the
	real pain in my ass.  Navigation of the site sucks major
	tuna, that is for certain.
> 
> Ftping photos to a website take a bit more moxie.

	Lessee...

	ftp: open blah-blah.blah-blah.com

	ftp: Login: anonymous
	
	ftp: Password: osan@

	ftp: bin
	ftp: prom (optional)
	ftp: cd <whatever directory you need to go to>
	ftp: lcd <whatever local directory you need to go from>
	ftp: mput <list of file names>
	ftp: bye

	That's not so bad, really.
> 
> Is there a decent canned program that could be built into a website for
> the purpose of depositing pictures easily? I even find the files
> sections on yahoo cumbersome.
	
	All the websites do is a Java call to ftp to suck the file up 
	to the server.  That's all that's happening on Photoaccess, I'm
	pretty sure.  You provide a field to specify the file to put,
	a "choose" or "browse" button to make path specification easier,
	and a "go" button to do the load.

	As I said, it's not the UL function that sucks, it's the navigation.
	It's simply horrible.  There should be a direct access map in a frame
	that allows you to see all categories and pages of images under them
	so one can go anywhere with a click.  It is like that in a way, but
	it's not well thought out and not intuitive, especially for people
	not used to using computers... and there are still a lot of those.
> 
> Mike Graf