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Microstock Photography Forum - General => Symbiostock => Symbiostock - Suggestions => Topic started by: THP Creative on March 31, 2013, 22:53
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Some things I think we need to see in Symbiostock in the near future (Leo - please see this as a way to improve the product, not as a nit-picking list of demands! :) ) that many other themes have.
- Ability to easily have different sidebars for different pages/posts
- Simple tickbox on each page to "Allow Comments" or not, with a global option as well
- Show Author info - yes/no option in Admin interface
- Basic contact form
- Colour pickers, styling options
- some more Symbiostock widgets - Most Popular Files, Latest Uploads, Discounted Images etc etc
Of course the actual functionality is first and foremost at the moment!
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A few of those are available as plugins - but these:
- Colour pickers, styling options
- some more Symbiostock widgets - Most Popular Files, Latest Uploads, Discounted Images etc etc
This is going to be a nice premium "child theme' I intend to sell, with a few other perks.
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With in-built Amazon S3 storage...?
Count me in! :)
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That will be a biggie. Its own plugin actually. Quite a challenge to build too. But its officially in the plan.
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That will be a biggie. Its own plugin actually. Quite a challenge to build too. But its officially in the plan.
Officially in the plan - you've made my day.
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That will be a biggie. Its own plugin actually. Quite a challenge to build too. But its officially in the plan.
Officially in the plan - you've made my day.
That was talked about in the first pages of the "Hey, here's an idea" conversation that started this. Some people are going to outgrow this fast.
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i'm waiting availability for uploading stock video.
*am using Wamp server to test out wordpress/symbiostock.
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working last night to link to my sym site from my other websites - would be nice on either the image page (admin only of course) or the edit image page to list the URL of the images so they can easily be copied
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ability to do a search based on category (or just an edit list by category) that would then allow bulk edit of selected images (eg, to change category, etc)
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with possible addition of video, would make sense to break up the pricing area - right now, it's all or npone. but video, collections and image sizes are different types, so we ight want to change all image prices, but not zip or video files; or, more simply, allow us to check off thee prices for which we want a global change, and if that pricing is not available for an image ignore it -- thus when I do a global price change for zips, it doesn't then set a zip price for all my images which have no zip (didn't want to test this too far for fear what it might do to existing prices)
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Improvements in the Image editing area.... If this were any stock site but my own I would have stopped uploading because of the pain of working with it..... :) :)
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You mean the processing area? Yes tell me the problem u are having. As far as I know there is only memory crash issue left
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ability to do a search based on category (or just an edit list by category) that would then allow bulk edit of selected images (eg, to change category, etc)
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I very much support the above one as well.
In addition I think that having the possibility to decide on the number of pictures shown by page would be nice!
Jean
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Processing is quite laborious but lot of that is the seo work and is fine when the internet is working at a reasonable speed, I normally have three windows open to do it now so I don't have to keep waiting.
One thing I would like to see is more than 24 images available when searching categories as I think this could become somewhat frustrating for clients, options for different amounts might be nice even if, like deviant art, you can only see the largest numbers if you are logged in/registered etc ?
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Processing is quite laborious but lot of that is the seo work and is fine when the internet is working at a reasonable speed, I normally have three windows open to do it now so I don't have to keep waiting.
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right, that's why it may be useful to pre-calc some things like count for tags, topics of each site, etc and store them in a separate table. the updates to be done as background, I bit at a time while people are looking , etc
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You mean the processing area? Yes tell me the problem u are having. As far as I know there is only memory crash issue left
I am not having "problems"... just extremely frustrated in how the workflow is.
Things that would be useful is to be able to step through images.... being able to select a group but work on those individually...to be able to do sorts on the images by different criteria ( views, ratings, comments, sales
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So your talking about the admin area where images (up for sale) are listed?
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So your talking about the admin area where images (up for sale) are listed?
under royalty free images / all images
have to page thru to find the image -- need to be able to have search active here to reduce the # of images; right now search just jumps to search results page, losing bulk edit option
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Thar's all wp stuff I will get to in time
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when thinking about how to handle video, another type would be packages/collections that are too big for storing in the system -- 200 - 500Mb collections, eg that could be downloaded from another storage site, but processed thru SYM
also, this would be another reason to break out the repricing updates, so that changing the defaults for diff image sizes doesn't also turn on zip files or footage
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I believe this was mentioned once, but I would like to bring it up again.
Since my images are now being indexed by google, I have had a chance to check them out in a google images search. Some images do not show a watermark at all, because of the colors, density of colors, etc. I know it is there, but I would like to be able to control the opacity, so on the darker images, I might make the watermark a little lighter, and on lighter images I could make it darker.
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Can the similar images widget be coded to set the max number of images shown? Thanks
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I hope to do that soon. Someone has also requested an exclusive images widget / categories widget with that feature.
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Hi, as well as the exclusive image widget. I'm also after a banner to go with editoral images like you did for the exclusive images. However, I know ur really busy.
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Have found one way around an Editorial banner - and it can be edited to your own preferences - mine just needs to shrink a bit
http://stockimages.kerioak.com/image/easyjet-plane-at-airport/ (http://stockimages.kerioak.com/image/easyjet-plane-at-airport/)
EDIT: 18 July. I am now using my png with AJT's plug-in
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A filter on the image page to sort from newest first, to override the ranking for buyers who want to see the latest images. Just a button to click. I would love that as well
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Have found one way around an Editorial banner - and it can be edited to your own preferences - mine just needs to shrink a bit
[url]http://stockimages.kerioak.com/image/easyjet-plane-at-airport/[/url] ([url]http://stockimages.kerioak.com/image/easyjet-plane-at-airport/[/url])
Do you mind sharing how you've done it? Do you simply put this picture into the image description?
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Yes, I made a .png and added it to the descriptions
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new feature:
display all category images that DO NOT have a subcategory - eg in Europe don't show the images for France, Italy or Czech Republic fr which I have sub categories. this gives a smaller display of images that would otherwise get lost (about 60 rather than 250)
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i'm waiting availability for uploading stock video.
+1 for this feature.
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Since my images are now being indexed by google, I have had a chance to check them out in a google images search. Some images do not show a watermark at all, because of the colors, density of colors, etc. I know it is there, but I would like to be able to control the opacity, so on the darker images, I might make the watermark a little lighter, and on lighter images I could make it darker.
I read this earlier but it didn't mean anything to me then. Now that I'm in the throes of building my site, it does.
My watermark shows up well on light-colored images/backgrounds, but it completely disappears on images with black subjects (ravens, blackbirds, etc). I've been thinking I'd have to create a white watermark version to use on those images, but Cathy's suggestion would be much better.
So... +1
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Leo - could you make the option in the admin that already exists for turning comments on or off also apply to trackbacks and ping backs?
I have them disabled in the wordpress->discussion area already but for some reason each new published image still defaults to allowing trackbacks/pingbacks. Starting to see some spam coming through this way.
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Suggestion for Premium version - Add the ability to easily link your Symbio files to Google+ Authorship.
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Definitely noted on these things. Shortly before release I'll have to hit up up for a list of popular requests! Microstockman is to be credited for many of the behind-the-scenes optimization the early releases of the theme had :D
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Definitely noted on these things. Shortly before release I'll have to hit up up for a list of popular requests! Microstockman is to be credited for many of the behind-the-scenes optimization the early releases of the theme had :D
Aww thanks Leo. It's a very nice way of saying "microstock man keeps bugging me with things to add!" ;D
BTW - Your Image Sitemap is working brilliantly. This is a plugin everyone should buy. without it my Yoast sitemaps have indexed a total of FOUR images. Your site map has helped Google index 1800+ images! (IMAGES people, not pages)
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Definitely noted on these things. Shortly before release I'll have to hit up up for a list of popular requests! Microstockman is to be credited for many of the behind-the-scenes optimization the early releases of the theme had :D
Aww thanks Leo. It's a very nice way of saying "microstock man keeps bugging me with things to add!" ;D
BTW - Your Image Sitemap is working brilliantly. This is a plugin everyone should buy. without it my Yoast sitemaps have indexed a total of FOUR images. Your site map has helped Google index 1800+ images! (IMAGES people, not pages)
How long did it take?
After two weeks I am still only at 274
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Video, if we have this will we potentially soon outgrow our hosts due to their size.?
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Definitely noted on these things. Shortly before release I'll have to hit up up for a list of popular requests! Microstockman is to be credited for many of the behind-the-scenes optimization the early releases of the theme had :D
Aww thanks Leo. It's a very nice way of saying "microstock man keeps bugging me with things to add!" ;D
BTW - Your Image Sitemap is working brilliantly. This is a plugin everyone should buy. without it my Yoast sitemaps have indexed a total of FOUR images. Your site map has helped Google index 1800+ images! (IMAGES people, not pages)
How long did it take?
After two weeks I am still only at 274
Took three weeks. Not much happened in week one, but week three has seen steady growth.
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Definitely noted on these things. Shortly before release I'll have to hit up up for a list of popular requests! Microstockman is to be credited for many of the behind-the-scenes optimization the early releases of the theme had :D
Aww thanks Leo. It's a very nice way of saying "microstock man keeps bugging me with things to add!" ;D
BTW - Your Image Sitemap is working brilliantly. This is a plugin everyone should buy. without it my Yoast sitemaps have indexed a total of FOUR images. Your site map has helped Google index 1800+ images! (IMAGES people, not pages)
How long did it take?
After two weeks I am still only at 274
Took three weeks. Not much happened in week one, but week three has seen steady growth.
My url indexed fast with Leo's tool. Howver my images are only indexing slowly 58/1213. Is this normal? They are going up slowly
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Definitely noted on these things. Shortly before release I'll have to hit up up for a list of popular requests! Microstockman is to be credited for many of the behind-the-scenes optimization the early releases of the theme had :D
Aww thanks Leo. It's a very nice way of saying "microstock man keeps bugging me with things to add!" ;D
BTW - Your Image Sitemap is working brilliantly. This is a plugin everyone should buy. without it my Yoast sitemaps have indexed a total of FOUR images. Your site map has helped Google index 1800+ images! (IMAGES people, not pages)
I strongly recommend BOTH leo's and yoast sitemaps -- even though io get virtually identical results -- they differ by only a few items each dasy, but they are complementary. leo's picks up more sym specific details, while yoast is invaluable for tweaking the SEO
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Definitely noted on these things. Shortly before release I'll have to hit up up for a list of popular requests! Microstockman is to be credited for many of the behind-the-scenes optimization the early releases of the theme had :D
Aww thanks Leo. It's a very nice way of saying "microstock man keeps bugging me with things to add!" ;D
BTW - Your Image Sitemap is working brilliantly. This is a plugin everyone should buy. without it my Yoast sitemaps have indexed a total of FOUR images. Your site map has helped Google index 1800+ images! (IMAGES people, not pages)
How long did it take?
After two weeks I am still only at 274
274 of how many? and, most importantly, how many of these images were at other agencies before you put them on sym?
I used to gwt about 10% images indexed. yoast & leo's sitemaps raised that to about 20%. but for the images (most new to tagencies too) I've uploaded in the last several weeks, i'm getting 80-90% indexed. most likely we're in competition with out own images that are indexed thru the agencies.
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Definitely noted on these things. Shortly before release I'll have to hit up up for a list of popular requests! Microstockman is to be credited for many of the behind-the-scenes optimization the early releases of the theme had :D
Aww thanks Leo. It's a very nice way of saying "microstock man keeps bugging me with things to add!" ;D
BTW - Your Image Sitemap is working brilliantly. This is a plugin everyone should buy. without it my Yoast sitemaps have indexed a total of FOUR images. Your site map has helped Google index 1800+ images! (IMAGES people, not pages)
How long did it take?
After two weeks I am still only at 274
274 of how many? and, most importantly, how many of these images were at other agencies before you put them on sym?
I used to gwt about 10% images indexed. yoast & leo's sitemaps raised that to about 20%. but for the images (most new to tagencies too) I've uploaded in the last several weeks, i'm getting 80-90% indexed. most likely we're in competition with out own images that are indexed thru the agencies.
Thats why i dont supply the agencies anymore
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Definitely noted on these things. Shortly before release I'll have to hit up up for a list of popular requests! Microstockman is to be credited for many of the behind-the-scenes optimization the early releases of the theme had :D
Aww thanks Leo. It's a very nice way of saying "microstock man keeps bugging me with things to add!" ;D
BTW - Your Image Sitemap is working brilliantly. This is a plugin everyone should buy. without it my Yoast sitemaps have indexed a total of FOUR images. Your site map has helped Google index 1800+ images! (IMAGES people, not pages)
How long did it take?
After two weeks I am still only at 274
274 of how many? and, most importantly, how many of these images were at other agencies before you put them on sym?
I used to gwt about 10% images indexed. yoast & leo's sitemaps raised that to about 20%. but for the images (most new to tagencies too) I've uploaded in the last several weeks, i'm getting 80-90% indexed. most likely we're in competition with out own images that are indexed thru the agencies.
883 and about 70 are new (exclusive), but I changed all titles creating new URLS. I am at 339 indexed images now. Thats 38%
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Ron images aren't indexed as blog and website it takes much time, in two week it's not bad what you got.
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All content types
Submitted
Indexed
Web pages
9,665 Submitted
5,120 Indexed
Images
1,792 Submitted
339 Indexed
Numbers are all over the place
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What is meant by images being indexed? I saw 5-6 of my images from my sym site on google images but webmaster shows only 2 indexed images.
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You can try Ajt "stock plugin" the plugin shows red "EDITORIAL USE ONLY" messages, when image has category Editorial.
read more http://www.microstockgroup.com/symbiostock-seo-marketing/symbiostock-alamy-plugin/ (http://www.microstockgroup.com/symbiostock-seo-marketing/symbiostock-alamy-plugin/)
or go to plugin page http://ajotte.com/stock-plugin/ (http://ajotte.com/stock-plugin/)
Have found one way around an Editorial banner - and it can be edited to your own preferences - mine just needs to shrink a bit
[url]http://stockimages.kerioak.com/image/easyjet-plane-at-airport/[/url] ([url]http://stockimages.kerioak.com/image/easyjet-plane-at-airport/[/url])
Do you mind sharing how you've done it? Do you simply put this picture into the image description?
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i would like to request a feature to sell images in packages, something like grouping images and sell as package.
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Definitely noted on these things. Shortly before release I'll have to hit up up for a list of popular requests! Microstockman is to be credited for many of the behind-the-scenes optimization the early releases of the theme had :D
Aww thanks Leo. It's a very nice way of saying "microstock man keeps bugging me with things to add!" ;D
BTW - Your Image Sitemap is working brilliantly. This is a plugin everyone should buy. without it my Yoast sitemaps have indexed a total of FOUR images. Your site map has helped Google index 1800+ images! (IMAGES people, not pages)
How long did it take?
After two weeks I am still only at 274
274 of how many? and, most importantly, how many of these images were at other agencies before you put them on sym?
I used to gwt about 10% images indexed. yoast & leo's sitemaps raised that to about 20%. but for the images (most new to tagencies too) I've uploaded in the last several weeks, i'm getting 80-90% indexed. most likely we're in competition with out own images that are indexed thru the agencies.
883 and about 70 are new (exclusive), but I changed all titles creating new URLS. I am at 339 indexed images now. Thats 38%
thayt's not bad -- changing urls won't matter if stock agency versions are already indexed
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My Feature Request!!!
Some things have been mentioned before, but the following would really help.
Some may also be possible right now so if so let me know how!
On the client side of things....
Ability to change number of images clients see in the grid view. Best way would being able to change each size, so instead of saying 30 images change it to 5x6 or 6x5 etc.
Ability to show bread crumbs under the image in the image page.
Ability to move the boxes in the 2 columns around in the image page.
Ability to change color background, font colors etc. I have a feeling this is available in the Child Themes by using code but maybe a plug-in could be made where it would have a list of values to change for each part for those of us not so code savvy.
On the processing/organization side of things.
A category for the original filename.
Improved searching options, i.e. search by category AND/OR keyword AND/OR exclusive AND/OR original filename etc, not just by description/title.
Improved sorting options, including being able to see and sort by the original filename.
Ability to search/sort by upload DAY, not just MONTH.
Additional licensing options including EL and RM.
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Improved searching options, i.e. search by category AND/OR keyword AND/OR exclusive AND/OR original filename etc, not just by description/title.
Improved sorting options, including being able to see and sort by the original filename.
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these are good features -- when we have 500,000 images -- right now, it's a rare search that comes up with more than 100-200 results
even if you do a 'silly' search like 'beautiful woman' the results are manageable --these are 2 of the most used keywords with 13,000 and 12,000 results in the global search http://cascoly.com/symbio/list.asp?list=401 (http://cascoly.com/symbio/list.asp?list=401)
but the combination gives just 3000 images and eliminating similar you get about 500 with 2500 similar
so even for this extremely broad search the results are reasonable. the search is getting better, but at this point i'd place it lower on the list of priorities (right now sym is competitive with SS -- for 'bald soprano', sym gives 0 and SS gives only 1 result!)
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My Feature Request!!!
Some things have been mentioned before, but the following would really help.
Some may also be possible right now so if so let me know how!
On the client side of things....
Ability to change number of images clients see in the grid view. Best way would being able to change each size, so instead of saying 30 images change it to 5x6 or 6x5 etc.
Ability to show bread crumbs under the image in the image page.
Ability to move the boxes in the 2 columns around in the image page.
Ability to change color background, font colors etc. I have a feeling this is available in the Child Themes by using code but maybe a plug-in could be made where it would have a list of values to change for each part for those of us not so code savvy.
On the processing/organization side of things.
A category for the original filename.
Improved searching options, i.e. search by category AND/OR keyword AND/OR exclusive AND/OR original filename etc, not just by description/title.
Improved sorting options, including being able to see and sort by the original filename.
Ability to search/sort by upload DAY, not just MONTH.
Additional licensing options including EL and RM.
Thanks for mentioning these things. I'll try to keep them in mind with the upgrade I'm doing.
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Improved searching options, i.e. search by category AND/OR keyword AND/OR exclusive AND/OR original filename etc, not just by description/title.
Improved sorting options, including being able to see and sort by the original filename.
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these are good features -- when we have 500,000 images -- right now, it's a rare search that comes up with more than 100-200 results
even if you do a 'silly' search like 'beautiful woman' the results are manageable --these are 2 of the most used keywords with 13,000 and 12,000 results in the global search [url]http://cascoly.com/symbio/list.asp?list=401[/url] ([url]http://cascoly.com/symbio/list.asp?list=401[/url])
but the combination gives just 3000 images and eliminating similar you get about 500 with 2500 similar
so even for this extremely broad search the results are reasonable. the search is getting better, but at this point i'd place it lower on the list of priorities (right now sym is competitive with SS -- for 'bald soprano', sym gives 0 and SS gives only 1 result!)
You missed the point. This is on the administration side of the site. We need these kind of searches to be able to manage the images. Even with 1000 images it is already unwieldy.
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Awesome, thanks Leo!
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Improved searching options, i.e. search by category AND/OR keyword AND/OR exclusive AND/OR original filename etc, not just by description/title.
Improved sorting options, including being able to see and sort by the original filename.
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these are good features -- when we have 500,000 images -- right now, it's a rare search that comes up with more than 100-200 results
even if you do a 'silly' search like 'beautiful woman' the results are manageable --these are 2 of the most used keywords with 13,000 and 12,000 results in the global search [url]http://cascoly.com/symbio/list.asp?list=401[/url] ([url]http://cascoly.com/symbio/list.asp?list=401[/url])
but the combination gives just 3000 images and eliminating similar you get about 500 with 2500 similar
so even for this extremely broad search the results are reasonable. the search is getting better, but at this point i'd place it lower on the list of priorities (right now sym is competitive with SS -- for 'bald soprano', sym gives 0 and SS gives only 1 result!)
You missed the point. This is on the administration side of the site. We need these kind of searches to be able to manage the images. Even with 1000 images it is already unwieldy.
sorry, missed that -- you didn't say admin -- I keep a spreadsheet with all my keywords, captions, etc so it's easily searchable
http://symbiostock-search.com (http://symbiostock-search.com) does let you examine all keywords, by frequency, alphabetically, etc across all sites and for specific sites
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I think AJT produced an editorial plugin
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Improved searching options, i.e. search by category AND/OR keyword AND/OR exclusive AND/OR original filename etc, not just by description/title.
Improved sorting options, including being able to see and sort by the original filename.
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these are good features -- when we have 500,000 images -- right now, it's a rare search that comes up with more than 100-200 results
even if you do a 'silly' search like 'beautiful woman' the results are manageable --these are 2 of the most used keywords with 13,000 and 12,000 results in the global search [url]http://cascoly.com/symbio/list.asp?list=401[/url] ([url]http://cascoly.com/symbio/list.asp?list=401[/url])
but the combination gives just 3000 images and eliminating similar you get about 500 with 2500 similar
so even for this extremely broad search the results are reasonable. the search is getting better, but at this point i'd place it lower on the list of priorities (right now sym is competitive with SS -- for 'bald soprano', sym gives 0 and SS gives only 1 result!)
You missed the point. This is on the administration side of the site. We need these kind of searches to be able to manage the images. Even with 1000 images it is already unwieldy.
sorry, missed that -- you didn't say admin -- I keep a spreadsheet with all my keywords, captions, etc so it's easily searchable
[url]http://symbiostock-search.com[/url] ([url]http://symbiostock-search.com[/url]) does let you examine all keywords, by frequency, alphabetically, etc across all sites and for specific sites
Actually I did split the suggestion into two parts and even stated it there although I called it the "client side" and the "processing/organization side of things" which I guess I should have simply called the "administration side" instead.
Yes I love that search function!!! Excellent job.
The only thing is it is not what I was suggesting. I need a better way to find files to organize into categories on the administration side. If i search for landscape in the client side of my site I get hundreds of images because I've used the keyword landscape. If I search for it in the administration side I only get 16 because it is only searching the description, unless I'm missing something. If this is included in the Premium site option or a paid plug in I have no problem with either as it is a small price to pay for all of the work involved.
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The only thing is it is not what I was suggesting. I need a better way to find files to organize into categories on the administration side. If i search for landscape in the client side of my site I get hundreds of images because I've used the keyword landscape. If I search for it in the administration side I only get 16 because it is only searching the description, unless I'm missing something. If this is included in the Premium site option or a paid plug in I have no problem with either as it is a small price to pay for all of the work involved.
yes, that is a feature of the bulk edit in the premium version - and you can display 200 or more images on one page, then select and edit
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I'd like to see a search option to narrow a search through adding on additional keywords to fine-tune the selection.
ie:
Start with "Shrimp" - decide the results are too wide-ranging (includes live shrimp, shrimp boats, prepared meals)
Add keyword - "Cooked" (limits results to prepared food, shrimp scampi, shrimp cocktail, etc.)
decide that a pasta dish with shrimp might best suit your need so add the keyword "Pasta"
It would return similar results if you searched Shrimp + Pasta I guess, but it's nice to be able to narrow the search as you go instead of having to get it right the first time, or keep revising the original search.
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The only thing is it is not what I was suggesting. I need a better way to find files to organize into categories on the administration side. If i search for landscape in the client side of my site I get hundreds of images because I've used the keyword landscape. If I search for it in the administration side I only get 16 because it is only searching the description, unless I'm missing something. If this is included in the Premium site option or a paid plug in I have no problem with either as it is a small price to pay for all of the work involved.
yes, that is a feature of the bulk edit in the premium version - and you can display 200 or more images on one page, then select and edit
Awesome, sign me up!
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I'd like to see a search option to narrow a search through adding on additional keywords to fine-tune the selection.
ie:
Start with "Shrimp" - decide the results are too wide-ranging (includes live shrimp, shrimp boats, prepared meals)
Add keyword - "Cooked" (limits results to prepared food, shrimp scampi, shrimp cocktail, etc.)
decide that a pasta dish with shrimp might best suit your need so add the keyword "Pasta"
It would return similar results if you searched Shrimp + Pasta I guess, but it's nice to be able to narrow the search as you go instead of having to get it right the first time, or keep revising the original search.
I think we'll have that eventually - right now, there are few enough images that most searches return an array that's quicker to scan rather than refine; as the number and variety of images grows, searching will become more detailed
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I am confused, is Leo working on a better search or not? I constantly see contradicting posts, and I have a messed up search because of the limited WP search. As do others. I am waiting for the premium version with a new search. And now you say its not going to be added? Or are we now talking different things?
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I am confused, is Leo working on a better search or not? I constantly see contradicting posts, and I have a messed up search because of the limited WP search. As do others. I am waiting for the premium version with a new search. And now you say its not going to be added? Or are we now talking different things?
Leos premium plugin is for your own site. Cascoly is talking about the main search engine.
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Just ran into another need for better batch operations. i'd like to change the price of all of my images. As it is currently set up I cannot do it as it would also change other settings such as exclusive which I do not want to alter. So another reason for improved batch operations!
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Actually being tired out of my mind, I think I'm going to release the batch operator by Friday, since I can't seem to push myself any more due to fatigue.
You will like it :D
Yes, mass price changes are possible with what you have now in the "Author Options" area.
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Not sure it is on the list but having moneybookers as payment options would be nice, will attract more people to Symbiostock as well
Laurent
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Actually being tired out of my mind, I think I'm going to release the batch operator by Friday, since I can't seem to push myself any more due to fatigue.
You will like it :D
Yes, mass price changes are possible with what you have now in the "Author Options" area.
Glad to hear about the batch operator!
The problem with changing it in the author area is it appears that it would also change the other settings which I do not want to do. It is preset to be Not Exclusive, Live, 2nd etc and there is no way to turn them to ignore so those setting don't change.
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Leo another suggestion for the premium version, the ability to sell audio as a lot of musicians would be interested, not sure though how easy is to implement compared to images?
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This post expands on the bulk edit and Search/Select mentioned by other members. I also wrote about it in one of the other threads in the General area.
1. It would be nice to have a general purpose selection/change utility. For instance, select all exclusive images, certain categories, or some collections and apply special pricing just to those images. Excluding some images or narrowing down the previous selection would be also nice.
It would be quite useful to have a flexible selection process (select by all kinds of criteria - keyword, category,date, etc), ideally also nested (narrow-down) selections, and then being able to run the pricing utility just on the selected images.
Keep the selection process totally independent, so the selected images could be used potentially as input also for other processes to be added in the future (zipping, export, resizing, applying a new watermark, adding some keywords, etc).
2. The Change Utility (or even a group of small change programs) would accept a selection list (current selection, saved selection, list of images, etc), interpret a mode parameter (i.e. change prices, add keywords, run a new watermark, add/rewrite Editorial notice, etc).
Utilities like this could be integral part of Symbiostock or added as third-party tools, enhancing the functionality and power of the Symbiostock platform.
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2. The Change Utility (or even a group of small change programs) would accept a selection list (current selection, saved selection, list of images, etc), interpret a mode parameter (i.e. change prices, add keywords, run a new watermark, add/rewrite Editorial notice, etc).
I agree with all you said, Les. Especially your suggestions in #2.
For ex: How horrible it would be in the current set-up if one of us created a better watermark and wanted to apply it to all images already on a site. As I understand it, right now that would require redoing from scratch every single one of those image pages. A horrible task! But if there were a way to replace the watermark on an entire set of existing images... Sweet!
I'm especially aware of this problem because I struggled to create a watermark at the beginning of my site set-up. I like the design I finally ended up with but need to have it show up better on dark subjects. My current one disappears on those. I may eventually redo and improve it, but will have to reconstruct all the image pages where it's needed. Not a happy thought.
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2. The Change Utility (or even a group of small change programs) would accept a selection list (current selection, saved selection, list of images, etc), interpret a mode parameter (i.e. change prices, add keywords, run a new watermark, add/rewrite Editorial notice, etc).
I agree with all you said, Les. Especially your suggestions in #2.
For ex: How horrible it would be in the current set-up if one of us created a better watermark and wanted to apply it to all images already on a site. As I understand it, right now that would require redoing from scratch every single one of those image pages. A horrible task! But if there were a way to replace the watermark on an entire set of existing images... Sweet!
I'm especially aware of this problem because I struggled to create a watermark at the beginning of my site set-up. I like the design I finally ended up with but need to have it show up better on dark subjects. My current one disappears on those. I may eventually redo and improve it, but will have to reconstruct all the image pages where it's needed. Not a happy thought.
I dont think thats true. All you need to do is upload a new watermark and process all images again. Its a one click process.
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............ and if not a one click process you can do it at least 50 at a time
Did you know that on the "All Images" page you can click on screen options and select the number of images you want to be visible, select them, then choose Bulk Actions - Reprocess to reprocess them
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............ and if not a one click process you can do it at least 50 at a time
Did you know that on the "All Images" page you can click on screen options and select the number of images you want to be visible, select them, then choose Bulk Actions - Reprocess to reprocess them
Good tip.
I ran into the bulk edit issue yesterday. Wanted to change prices on all a little higher, but have uploaded about 10 exclusive images. I did all, then went back and hand edited the exclusive ones. Worked ok for now, but as the numbers grow, this could be a pain. Which I suppose is why Les is requesting the feature, and I agree.
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I dont think thats true. All you need to do is upload a new watermark and process all images again. Its a one click process.
This is good to know, too. I was previously told that only newly uploaded images would have the new watermark, and we were stuck with the old watermark on already-uploaded images. But that was many versions ago. I would love to change my watermark, have the same issue as Martha.
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Did you know that on the "All Images" page you can click on screen options and select the number of images you want to be visible...
Great tip...
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............ and if not a one click process you can do it at least 50 at a time
Did you know that on the "All Images" page you can click on screen options and select the number of images you want to be visible, select them, then choose Bulk Actions - Reprocess to reprocess them
The only caveat is that "Reprocess" option is awfully close to "Trash All"
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Does anybody know if the "Reprocess" will only affect the graphic part of the image (creating the different sizes, applying watermark etc) or will it also change some or all database values (release status, exclusivity, pricing etc)?
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Does anybody know if the "Reprocess" will only affect the graphic part of the image (creating the different sizes, applying watermark etc) or will it also change some or all database values (release status, exclusivity, pricing etc)?
It will change it to what you set on the template
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Does anybody know if the "Reprocess" will only affect the graphic part of the image (creating the different sizes, applying watermark etc) or will it also change some or all database values (release status, exclusivity, pricing etc)?
You can try it out on one image. If you do, please let us know what you find out.
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Does anybody know if the "Reprocess" will only affect the graphic part of the image (creating the different sizes, applying watermark etc) or will it also change some or all database values (release status, exclusivity, pricing etc)?
You can try it out on one image. If you do, please let us know what you find out.
I just tried it and it did NOT apply the default settings but it kept all custom database values like release status, image categories etc.
Just to be sure, I'll try it again with two images.
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Same result. A "Reprocess" will leave the data parts untouched.
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I can't figure out a way to bulk add that there is a release for a number of images. If anyone knows a way please let me know, if not, this is a VERY important feature request.
To add to this. I marked an image as Model Released in the administration area but cannot find it anywhere on the client side. I've looked at people on a few other Sym sites and and again could not find any MR info showing. Any ideas?
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I can't figure out a way to bulk add that there is a release for a number of images. If anyone knows a way please let me know, if not, this is a VERY important feature request.
I don't see that Symbiostock does anything at this time with the release information, so I am not sure why you would want to do this, but you can do this via a query in the database.
Something like the following:
UPDATE wp_postmeta SET meta_value = 'Yes' WHERE meta_key = 'symbiostock_model_released' AND post_id IN ( <list of image IDs>);
For example, if the image ID's are 5, 10, 18, 200, then you would have:
UPDATE wp_postmeta SET meta_value = 'Yes' WHERE meta_key = 'symbiostock_model_released' AND post_id IN ( 5, 10, 18, 200 );
If it is a property release, then you can replace 'symbiostock_model_released' with 'symbiostock_property_released'.
You can find the post / image ID in a variety of ways. Here is one:
Go to the image page, right click on the page and choose "View page source". Search for the word "minipic". If the lines immediately above it look like they describe the image, then that is the post / image ID.
I would suggest trying it on one image first.
As always, I would recommend making a backup of your database before you make any changes.
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Thanks Shazam for taking the time to explain the search, but alas I think that is way too complicated to use daily. We need an easy search mechanism on the administration side of things to keep things easy and moving along.
So my first request is to show MR info with the images as clients NEED to know.
PS Where do you enter this Database search info, certainly NOT the "Search Images" in the Dashboard's Royalty Free Images tab.
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I can't figure out a way to bulk add that there is a release for a number of images. If anyone knows a way please let me know, if not, this is a VERY important feature request.
To add to this. I marked an image as Model Released in the administration area but cannot find it anywhere on the client side. I've looked at people on a few other Sym sites and and again could not find any MR info showing. Any ideas?
I second that request. The release status needs to be available on the frontend image page. This goes hand in hand with the ability to offer Non-RF licensing.
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Same result. A "Reprocess" will leave the data parts untouched.
This has been my understanding. Reprocessing images only affects the image and watermark. In another thread, I was pleased to learn that you can change your watermark and reprocess the images and have the new watermark show up on all the ones you reprocess. I was previously told that the new watermark would only show on newly uploaded images.
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Thanks Shazam for taking the time to explain the search, but alas I think that is way too complicated to use daily. We need an easy search mechanism on the administration side of things to keep things easy and moving along.
I understand the need for a simpler way of modifying batches of images, but at this time there isn't one.
In addition, when someone posts a question, there is no way to know their technical expertise (or lack thereof). So I provided the info for those that have the technical knowledge (whether it would be you or someone else that reads this thread later).
PS Where do you enter this Database search info, certainly NOT the "Search Images" in the Dashboard's Royalty Free Images tab.
You would enter the statement in your MySQL database (which is usually available from your hosting service via a phpMyAdmin front end application).
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I dont think thats true. All you need to do is upload a new watermark and process all images again. Its a one click process.
This is good to know, too. I was previously told that only newly uploaded images would have the new watermark, and we were stuck with the old watermark on already-uploaded images. But that was many versions ago. I would love to change my watermark, have the same issue as Martha.
That's what I understood too. It would be wonderful to be able to change the watermark on all existing images without having to redo their pages.
I haven't tried it yet. Been too engaged with redoing for SEO. But if the watermark-switch is do-able, I'll probably take a stab at it soon.
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Thanks Shazam for taking the time to explain the search, but alas I think that is way too complicated to use daily. We need an easy search mechanism on the administration side of things to keep things easy and moving along.
I understand the need for a simpler way of modifying batches of images, but at this time there isn't one.
In addition, when someone posts a question, there is no way to know their technical expertise (or lack thereof). So I provided the info for those that have the technical knowledge (whether it would be you or someone else that reads this thread later).
PS Where do you enter this Database search info, certainly NOT the "Search Images" in the Dashboard's Royalty Free Images tab.
You would enter the statement in your MySQL database (which is usually available from your hosting service via a phpMyAdmin front end application).
Ah, thanks for explaining that. Certainly a bit more convoluted than it needs to be for the average user here.
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I dont think thats true. All you need to do is upload a new watermark and process all images again. Its a one click process.
This is good to know, too. I was previously told that only newly uploaded images would have the new watermark, and we were stuck with the old watermark on already-uploaded images. But that was many versions ago. I would love to change my watermark, have the same issue as Martha.
That's what I understood too. It would be wonderful to be able to change the watermark on all existing images without having to redo their pages.
I haven't tried it yet. Been too engaged with redoing for SEO. But if the watermark-switch is do-able, I'll probably take a stab at it soon.
As far as I know thats already possible, I said that in the other thread as well. Just try it on two images and check it out.
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I'd like the links to increase from the current 10 to at least 20 other sites.
While at it I'd like the option for the networked images to come in as a single group so it looks like a single large site like it appears on the Global Symbiostock Search Engine site rather than split into 10 or (hopefully) more individual sites.
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I'd like the links to increase from the current 10 to at least 20 other sites.
While at it I'd like the option for the networked images to come in as a single group so it looks like a single large site like it appears on the Global Symbiostock Search Engine site rather than split into 10 or (hopefully) more individual sites.
Actually, that is possible already and maybe something to think about doing on every SYS site.
We could throw out all existing network partners and only add/keep symbiostock.info there. This would list the search results of all SYS sites (with networking enabled) in only one block instead of up to 10.
Doesn't that make a lot more sense than having multiple blocks with possibly repeating search results?
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I'd like the links to increase from the current 10 to at least 20 other sites.
While at it I'd like the option for the networked images to come in as a single group so it looks like a single large site like it appears on the Global Symbiostock Search Engine site rather than split into 10 or (hopefully) more individual sites.
Actually, that is possible already and maybe something to think about doing on every SYS site.
We could throw out all existing network partners and only add/keep symbiostock.info there. This would list the search results of all SYS sites (with networking enabled) in only one block instead of up to 10.
Doesn't that make a lot more sense than having multiple blocks with possibly repeating search results?
I wonder how that would affect SEO (if at all).
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I'd like the links to increase from the current 10 to at least 20 other sites.
While at it I'd like the option for the networked images to come in as a single group so it looks like a single large site like it appears on the Global Symbiostock Search Engine site rather than split into 10 or (hopefully) more individual sites.
I have also thought about doing something like that.
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SEO effect would drop down dead
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I dont think thats true. All you need to do is upload a new watermark and process all images again. Its a one click process.
This is good to know, too. I was previously told that only newly uploaded images would have the new watermark, and we were stuck with the old watermark on already-uploaded images. But that was many versions ago. I would love to change my watermark, have the same issue as Martha.
That's what I understood too. It would be wonderful to be able to change the watermark on all existing images without having to redo their pages.
I haven't tried it yet. Been too engaged with redoing for SEO. But if the watermark-switch is do-able, I'll probably take a stab at it soon.
As far as I know thats already possible, I said that in the other thread as well. Just try it on two images and check it out.
I will try it out and see. That would be immensely helpful if it's possible. Thanks, Ron!
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Actually, that is possible already and maybe something to think about doing on every SYS site.
We could throw out all existing network partners and only add/keep symbiostock.info there. This would list the search results of all SYS sites (with networking enabled) in only one block instead of up to 10.
Doesn't that make a lot more sense than having multiple blocks with possibly repeating search results?
Not to me - I like being able to choose who I partner with and although I do use symbiostock.info I would not want it to be the only other result than my own
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I'm conflicted on this issue. It would be nice for potential buyers to be able to see all offerings in the SYS that fit a certain search term.
But only if that didn't mess up our SEO. No way, Jose, do I want that after all this work of Yoast-ifying my portfolio!
And also... it's aggravating if you're looking for a photograph of (say) a duck. You enter "duck" in the search and find yourself swamped with illustrations of little yellow duckies. They certainly are cute, and lots of people will buy them, but if you're looking for a photo of an actual, living duck, they aren't going to be what you wanted. And vice versa, of course.
My compromise is to build my personal network of photographers doing work similar to mine. And then in the footer, to provide a link to the global search network. Seems to work.
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Originally I put the image into the description, then Ajt released his plug in so I have used that now to put it above the Exclusive box
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I'd like the links to increase from the current 10 to at least 20 other sites.
While at it I'd like the option for the networked images to come in as a single group so it looks like a single large site like it appears on the Global Symbiostock Search Engine site rather than split into 10 or (hopefully) more individual sites.
Actually, that is possible already and maybe something to think about doing on every SYS site.
We could throw out all existing network partners and only add/keep symbiostock.info there. This would list the search results of all SYS sites (with networking enabled) in only one block instead of up to 10.
Doesn't that make a lot more sense than having multiple blocks with possibly repeating search results?
eventually that might be a good idea, but right now, even with a small total # of images, the problem is how tio display the results: 1500 images for birds, 700 for india, eg -- with the network, buyers see a few images from each site that qualifies, but without something like that, some sites may not get shown
i'm testing various ways to choose among mass quantities of images by applying different weighting factors - eg, find the sites that concentrate on this particular keyword combination (that gives big & small sites a more equal footing, rather than just showing the site with the most) right now I store # of uses of each keyword that each site uses, to speed the search on particular keywords. With the new weighted search feature. you can see a list of each site sorted by how common that keyword is on their site. combining this for 2 or more keywords should find most relevant images
another way would be to search all sites & just show 4-5 from each with link for more, but this wont be possible with 100s of sites; so again some heuristic is needed to pick which images to show first
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Suggestions related to buyer's cart:
1. I would like to have an icon "add to cart" for any picture in a search result, as there is a button "zoom" when I do mouse hover.
2. Possibility to select a different size when a picture is in the cart. (as in fotolia)
3. When I zoom a picture, I would like to have, again, a button "add to cart", as there is a button "go to picture page".
Is it possible?
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Suggestions related to buyer's cart:
1. I would like to have an icon "add to cart" for any picture in a search result, as there is a button "zoom" when I do mouse hover.
2. Possibility to select a different size when a picture is in the cart. (as in fotolia)
3. When I zoom a picture, I would like to have, again, a button "add to cart", as there is a button "go to picture page".
Is it possible?
when you click on any image from a search result, there's a chance to buy the image at any size
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There is a big difference to decide on image size when I add them in lightbox and when I have a complete lightbox. I kindly ask to implement this functionality. It's not so difficult, but the usefulness is huge (trust me, I have some connections with a scientific research on usability).