Here is my question. How can I add a private picture gallery. We are a small photographers business and the business is now picking up and we would like to offer a private "proofing" section to our website so that our clients can actually go there and view and select their pictures instead of us having to go meet with them to get there choices. It would have to be password protected for the clients own use. Is this something that could be done with front page. From what I can see, my webserver does support this kind of feature but is frontpage design to do it? I have been looking around and nothing seems to what I am looking for. Anyone can help?
You would create a folder for each customer and then password protect the folder. If you're hosting on an Apache / UNIX server with the web masters CPanel, you can use CPanel to set the password for the folder. obtw, don't forget to watermark the images with an image editor...!! -- Steve Easton Microsoft MVP FrontPage FP Cleaner http://www.95isalive.com/fixes/fpclean.htm Hit Me FP http://www.95isalive.com/fixes/HitMeFP.htm "dahly" wrote in message news:A5284CA5-BE67-4B56-B350-7D38A3B83714@microsoft.com... > Here is my question. How can I add a private picture gallery. We are a small > photographers business and the business is now picking up and we would like > to offer a private "proofing" section to our website so that our clients can > actually go there and view and select their pictures instead of us having to > go meet with them to get there choices. It would have to be password > protected for the clients own use. Is this something that could be done with > front page. From what I can see, my webserver does support this kind of > feature but is frontpage design to do it? I have been looking around and > nothing seems to what I am looking for. > > Anyone can help?
I thought I posted a response here, but it appears either it got lost in cyberspace or I didn't end up sending it. My suggestion was to use this product for protecting directories: www.directorypass.com It allows you to set up users with a username & password so they can access their folder on your site (I assume you have it so there is a separate folder for each client's gallery). It simply utilises the htaccess feature of Apache (Linux) to protect folder/directory on the web server. Steve Easton has given the same idea, but mentions setting this up through CPanel. DirectoryPass is a Perl/CGI script that provides a simple user interface for doing the same thing. If you want something more elaborate, try www.locked-area.com which is a more fully functional membership management system and can use MySQL or text file for its data base. (ideal if your host does support PHP scripting but doesn't support MySQL). HOwever this is probably a secondary option a and not as secure as using MySQL. "dahly" wrote in message news:A5284CA5-BE67-4B56-B350-7D38A3B83714@microsoft.com... > Here is my question. How can I add a private picture gallery. We are a > small > photographers business and the business is now picking up and we would > like > to offer a private "proofing" section to our website so that our clients > can > actually go there and view and select their pictures instead of us having > to > go meet with them to get there choices. It would have to be password > protected for the clients own use. Is this something that could be done > with > front page. From what I can see, my webserver does support this kind of > feature but is frontpage design to do it? I have been looking around and > nothing seems to what I am looking for. > > Anyone can help?
