Orkney Image Library

The Orkneycommunities Facebook page is now being updated automatically when new pictures are approved here, and when new News articles are published on the Orkneycommunities home page. What's not to Like?

The big pictures are on the way back. The ability to add big pictures was lost during some changes to the system earlier this year, as was the ability to view big versions of pictures that had been uploaded. The latter function has been restored, and in a way that should reduce our bandwidth requirements when checking for big versions, but for the time being you'll see a 'Check for big picture' link with each picture where the status of whether a big picture exists or not has not been checked. It's a crowdsourcing thing, like associating pictures with an area.

The ability to add new big pictures should be along again soon too, I hope, with a chunk of retrospective adding. If there are any particular big pictures you fancy, drop me a line at contact@orkneycommunities.co.uk.

Also... Note the embryonic 'Previous/Next' function on pictures, by popular request. This will take a bit of debugging, due to the different ways you can arrive at a picture viz. by chronology, area, contributor, group, album, random...

It turned out the image garbling (as we say in the trade) was due to new anti-spam software installed by Calico, our hosts. They have rolled this back and the pictures have been reconstituted. Hurray!

The 10-15-20 option was missed, so has been reincarnated, in an IMPROVED form- see below the comments list for the expanded options.

Also the 'Back' link has been reinstated by request, so I hope that is helpful.

Duff comments links have been fixed where notified, I hope.

Large versions of pictures are now available where possible.

The Search facility is not up to scratch yet, but is being worked on.

It is now possible to add pdfs, audio clips and indeed movie clips to pictures. Contact me if you are interested in this.

The Google ads help keep us in business, but if any local business wants to advertise, we have a system which will support paid ads in place of some of the Google ads. Give me a shout.

The Admin system is far better.

The site is much more graphical, so people have a better chance of stumbling across pictures they might like.

Future upgrades will be easier to implement, and more regular.

Our hosting costs will ultimately be reduced.

So as far as I am concerned, the Image Library is now improved. The old one is not coming back. If people don't like aspects of the new style, if they can tell me what bugs them then there is a chance that something can be done about it, as can be seen. That is what constructive criticism is all about.