Re: Very Basic (?) Website Design Question(s)

Chuck,

It sounded like your "Item Master" file would be the catalog of the images.
Are you looking for a better alternative?

Is your Mac on the same network as your Web server?  How about saving the
image files in JPEG format in a directory that is accessible from your HTTP
server, then updating the Item Master record?

Then write a program to dynamically plug the URL reference into the Web page
prior to serving it?

Nathan M. Andelin
www.relational-data.com


  ----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Lewis" <clewis@iquest.net>
To: "Web400" <web400@midrange.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 7:16 AM
Subject: [WEB400] Very Basic (?) Website Design Question(s)


> Hi Folks,
>
> My apologies if this is a no brainer.
>
> We are a distributor and our main AS/400 software vendor offers a Web
> Commerce hook into their main software package. In the Item Master file
they
> have a field which will hold a URL for a picture of the Item. The Web
> Commerce software will check this and pull the picture into the web page
if
> it finds one for an Item Number being displayed.
>
> We currently publish a catalog once a year that contains everything we
sell,
> with specs, pictures, etc. This is done on Macs running Adobe PageMaker.
>
> Sooo, my question(s). We are in the planning stages for this website, how
> are folks handling "images" ?
>
> What packages are you using ?
>
> Are you using a package that allows for easy cataloging of all these
images,
> etc ?
>
> Thanks !
>
> Chuck