Ok, this is going to be a real silly question, but I could really use
some help here.
I have a lot of pictures that I want to share with family members
across country.
I figured I could set up a small web site on my PC running IIS. What I
have done so far is to put together a home page. However, I want to
know if it is possible to make a link to open a directory on my PC
(Same PC as the web site) or do I have to load each picture into say
Publisher and then work each page separately?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.



Dan (Still going in circles)

On Fri, 06 Jan 2006 01:02:07 GMT, skip <wi1202@dropthistoemailmecitlink.net>
wrote:

>Ok, this is going to be a real silly question, but I could really use
>some help here.
>I have a lot of pictures that I want to share with family members
>across country.
>I figured I could set up a small web site on my PC running IIS. What I
>have done so far is to put together a home page. However, I want to
>know if it is possible to make a link to open a directory on my PC
>(Same PC as the web site) or do I have to load each picture into say
>Publisher and then work each page separately?
>Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
>
>
>Dan (Still going in circles)

Dan,

You should be able to do either, or a combination. One of the simplest (and
ugliest) solutions would be to setup an FTP server, pointing to a folder
containing all of your pictures. Then your friends and family could simply
download the pictures, by name.

Much more user friendly would be to display thumbnail copies of the pictures on
a web page, and link each thumbnail to the full size of the picture. Probably
be less bandwidth intensive for you too, since they could see what they're
getting, before downloading. But that is more work.

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