Marco B
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Hi all,
Although I have had my website running for some three years now, and have been quite comfortable with it, I recently decided that the gallery part might have a minor update.
From the start, I have been using JAlbum (http://www.jalbum.net) to create the gallery pages and an older version of Dreamweaver for the general pages. Although maybe not the most userfriendly solution, it is very flexible and I can manage it.
JAlbum supports skins to tweak the appearance of the galleries, and I developed a custom skin of my own design based on an existing one. I now want to update this skin to a more advanced one that has more options.
One of the options is to display IPTC (Internation Press Telecommunications Council) and EXIF (digital camera's - not applicable to me) tags and keywords included in images. I really like this option, since it allows you to add comments to images without having to add them on the webpage itself, they are automatically extracted from the image by JAlbum and the skin.
These keywords allow you to identify the photographer and for example the subject photographed (E.g. "Eiffeltower")
I also now had a closer look at Adobe Bridge. Up to now, I have more or less disregarded it, only using Photoshop to manage my scanned analog prints and negatives. However, I now discovered Bridge allows you to quite easily manage and add IPTC tags and keywords for photos, and having the ability to save templates is good as well.
Now come the questions though:
- I noticed, when using JAlbum to create gallery images including IPTC keywords, that the image filesize dramatically increases (e.g. from about 35kB to 200kB). JAlbum already warns for this when you choose this option. Obviously 200kB is not a big deal if you are on ADSL or cable modem, but it might be an issue for dial-up internet connections.
- So, should I care? :confused: Are there still many people in remote sites using dial-up, or is this only marginal? Here in the Netherlands, you would have a hard time finding a new dial-up modem, although most modern computers probably have it integrated.
- In addition, I have been wondering if Google uses the IPTC tags to index the images, it probably does, since you have the "Find Images" option... Will more people discover a photo site if all the images are properly tagged with IPTC keywords? Is the possible extra visitors really worth the cost in increased filesize and possibly slow loading for dial-up connections and an extra burden for the webserver? Do others use IPTC tags on images included in web galleries?
Thanks for sharing any thoughts on these questions!
Although I have had my website running for some three years now, and have been quite comfortable with it, I recently decided that the gallery part might have a minor update.
From the start, I have been using JAlbum (http://www.jalbum.net) to create the gallery pages and an older version of Dreamweaver for the general pages. Although maybe not the most userfriendly solution, it is very flexible and I can manage it.
JAlbum supports skins to tweak the appearance of the galleries, and I developed a custom skin of my own design based on an existing one. I now want to update this skin to a more advanced one that has more options.
One of the options is to display IPTC (Internation Press Telecommunications Council) and EXIF (digital camera's - not applicable to me) tags and keywords included in images. I really like this option, since it allows you to add comments to images without having to add them on the webpage itself, they are automatically extracted from the image by JAlbum and the skin.
These keywords allow you to identify the photographer and for example the subject photographed (E.g. "Eiffeltower")
I also now had a closer look at Adobe Bridge. Up to now, I have more or less disregarded it, only using Photoshop to manage my scanned analog prints and negatives. However, I now discovered Bridge allows you to quite easily manage and add IPTC tags and keywords for photos, and having the ability to save templates is good as well.
Now come the questions though:
- I noticed, when using JAlbum to create gallery images including IPTC keywords, that the image filesize dramatically increases (e.g. from about 35kB to 200kB). JAlbum already warns for this when you choose this option. Obviously 200kB is not a big deal if you are on ADSL or cable modem, but it might be an issue for dial-up internet connections.
- So, should I care? :confused: Are there still many people in remote sites using dial-up, or is this only marginal? Here in the Netherlands, you would have a hard time finding a new dial-up modem, although most modern computers probably have it integrated.
- In addition, I have been wondering if Google uses the IPTC tags to index the images, it probably does, since you have the "Find Images" option... Will more people discover a photo site if all the images are properly tagged with IPTC keywords? Is the possible extra visitors really worth the cost in increased filesize and possibly slow loading for dial-up connections and an extra burden for the webserver? Do others use IPTC tags on images included in web galleries?
Thanks for sharing any thoughts on these questions!