WebPublish Image database

[GrantSymon]

Hi,

I'm a photographer and I would like to publish web based 'contact-sheets', which clients can view as a Form (whole image), List (I appreciate the 5 record limit per page) and Table with up to 20 images per page.

To this end I have experimented briefly with the 'Free' Photo Catalog file, supplied with FMPro 7.

I have to say I'm pretty dissappointed. The whole IWP thing seems very flakey indeed.

For starters, the Table view doesn't work at all. No images show up (the images are referenced in the FMP/Web Folder as suggested in the IWP pdf). Secondly, sometimes the image height/width tags don't work, so the image is stretched out of shape .. sometimes they're okay.

After a Find, there is more than one page ... even though there are only 2 records in the Found Set ... sadly 1 of the 2 doesn't show up on 1 of the pages. Clients would be totally lost.

Sometimes the Status bar gets messed up and only half the tools show up. (I'm using Safari on 10.3.7)

Other things ....

Speed seems okay, but I'm on localhost for the time being ... to see if it works.

Is this representitive of IWP ... (i.e. it's pretty useless except for data) or have I just been unlucky with the Photo Catalog file, or perhaps there's something I'm doing wrong?

If IWP doesn't work, then perhaps you might be able to suggest how easy it would be for me to use an FM supporting ISP? Would I be able to upload a folder of image files into my server space, with keywords etc. and just have them 'show up' in the database? ... How would this work?

Any help or info, very much appreciated.