Our Photo Albums
Sneha and I have been organizing all our photos this year especially the hardcopies and now the usable softcopy-prints. The albums used to be on this site earlier until I started seeing them getting indexed heavily by Google and other bots. No, our pictures were not meant to be so public. They now sit pretty on a couple of CD-ROMs and are for private viewing only.
For the autorun album CDs, I use JAlbum, a feature rich freeware for photo albums. Highly recommended (you could easily upload the whole created album to your site if you want ‘em to be displayed on the site).
For creating autorun files, I use the following simple DOS code in a file called autorun.bat parked in the root of the CD:
@echo Loading "(Your Album CD title goes here)"..
@start index.html
@exit
The index.html file is the one created by the album and is the index file. Another file autorun.inf that would contain the following:
[autorun]
open=autorun.bat
icon=pictures.ico
So now I have an index.html (together with sub-folder(s) containing pictures, thumbnails, and individual image pages), an icon file (pick a nice looking icon (use a 48×48 size 16-bit color icon for XP) file that will replace the standard CD-ROM icon in Windows Explorer or My Computer, an autorun.bat file and finally, the autorun.inf file. I put all these files in the root of the CD (for the CD to autoplay).
That’s pretty cool! You have got me interested, I am going to do some more research on this.
Jul 27, 04 at 21:54You could also create say ten albums all under subfolders and create one common
Jul 27, 04 at 22:01index.htmlto call individual albums. Possibilities unlimitedFirst time here…. came via Poonam’s blog.
Nice tool… I like it. I’ve plenty of photographs on my PC (more than 1500), and it is really a pain to organize them properly.
Downloaded a tool called as ‘Picasa’. Does quite a good job.
Jul 28, 04 at 14:51Manpreet Ah, yes the Google owned Picasa - nice.
Jul 28, 04 at 17:08