chemoleo - 5-2-2004 at 03:22
Ok, I am working on my little homepage (what's up now is crap, so dont bother to look at it). It's supposed to include some picture
galleries of course. However, my original pics have quite a high res, too high for browsing. Hence I need to reduce their size, say to 800x600. To do
this for 200+ pictures manually is a pain in the ass of course.
I was wondering whether anyone was aware of some software that would allow to do this automatically, i.e. to select a whole directory with all the
pictures, and have them automatically reduced while maintaining the filename. Naturally, free software is preferred 
Other than that- this may be of interest - it took me quite some time to find decent free hosts, and free domain name registrants.
Domain registrants:
http://www.smartdots.com
http://www.tk (but requirement for >90 hits per 3 months)
And decent webspace (though with banner), with decent bandwidth and NO restrictions on filetype:
http://www.free.prohosting.com/
Axt - 5-2-2004 at 04:12
There is quite a few freeware programs that will do that, mainly for generating thumbnailed pages which I guess is what your after.
Ive used coffeecup in the past but cant remember if it allows you to simply reduce the size of images but rather creates clickable thumbnails of the
larger images (simular to porn sites).
Try 20/20 http://www.hotfreeware.com/2020/download.htm for creating thumbnails. Or coffeecup http://www.coffeecup.com/image-viewer/ . Quote "and make Thumbnail Web pages from any group of images". These preserve the original
picture but create a small one as preview to click on.
Or to simply resize Cam2pc http://www.nabocorp.com/cam2pc/ , quote "Process your images in batch (renaming, converting, resizing...)"
Searching with the keywords - image/thumbnailer/freeware etc. will give quite a few.
[Edited on 5-2-2004 by Axt]
Blind Angel - 5-2-2004 at 05:32
There is a way to clear up all the banner and ads from a site easyly using PHP, maybe using javascript too, using the document.write command, you
might like to try it
Let me tap your knowledge :-)
chemoleo - 5-2-2004 at 09:04
Ok, thanks a lot for your replies.
What I meant of course is to NOT make thumbnails (Frontpage does that without a problem (although it's fvcking MS), or yahoo site builder 
etc etc), but rather to *decrease* image sizes to 800x600 pixels (thumbnails are like
100x75 pixels or less).
The point is I can easily make thumbs, but not thumbs of such a large size. Anyway, I will have a look at your programs, and see whether I can find
some interesting ones. Thanks
Let me tap your knowledge more:
I was thinking of including page counters (i.e. on every page) but most I found are with banners 
- do you know any sites where you can put counters on every single page, without banners, and preferably with a single
registration? Probably that's too much to ask.
On another note - how about webstats? Are there places that offer that for free?
I agree I could find some of it myself, but as you know, some are crap, some aren't (i.e. some make your page hang etc) - so basically some
recommendations would be great.
Thanks.
[Edited on 5-2-2004 by chemoleo]
get this program
Polverone - 5-2-2004 at 11:46
Irfanview - http://www.irfanview.com. It will let you do exactly what you want, and it's free. It's what I use to do batch image conversion for the
DLI books.
It's listed with a bunch of other top-notch Windows freeware on http://www.pricelessware.org.
[Edited on 2-5-2004 by Polverone]
Mumbles - 5-2-2004 at 15:42
If reducing because of file size, I'd listen to Polverone. If doing it to conserve space, you could listen to Polverone. A simple html resize
code could work just as easily.
< img src=location height=x width=x >
(remove the spaces before and after the <>
chemoleo - 5-2-2004 at 15:48
Polverone, that's a great program!
Thanks a lot. It not just allows you to do batch conversion, but also slideshows, batch scanning etc! How cool is that!
I can't believe this Irvin Austrian guy is doing this for free! THat's the spirit of the internet, doing things for the pure joy of it! Not
friggin software where you have to pay a shitload to have lots of bugs on the system!
PS In fact, Axt's http://www.nabocorp.com/cam2pc/ doesn't seem to be bad either for this particular purpose!
[Edited on 6-2-2004 by chemoleo]
T_FLeX - 5-2-2004 at 16:01
I was looking for a program just like this as well. Thanks Polverone! It took me forever to change the resolution of the pics on my website, so this
should save me a lot of time.
Chemeleo, have you asked your ISP is they offer web hosting? My ISP MCHSI provides up to 10 Megs of hosting for free.
chemoleo - 5-2-2004 at 16:11
TFlex - free.prohosting.com is doing just that. read my first post. They offer 50 MB, and no restrictions on file types (I found a number of other
webhosts, with 100 MB, but they wouldnt allow jpg photogalleries, or zip files etc). You will have to cope with banners, but at least you can host
whatever you like, with FTP upload capabilities! The best deal I could find, honestly! After a considerable amount of searching!
Edit: Post 333 - a magic number 
[Edited on 6-2-2004 by chemoleo]
Axt - 5-2-2004 at 17:38
As for webstats, Ive used extreme tracking for years, which I think is the cleanest. Heres it in use on one of my pages - http://w.extreme-dm.com/?login=roguemov . Though the free one is only for one page per account. Pay and you can track them through the entire
site.
chemoleo - 15-2-2004 at 15:58
Would anyone know of an easy way of removing banners? It really does annoy me now... but then it's for free so why complain?
Anyway... I have to admit that I dont know much about the details of html/java programming, so please bear that in mind
[Edited on 16-2-2004 by chemoleo]