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The Land Before Time => LBT Projects => Topic started by: landbeforetimelover on March 23, 2009, 12:52:57 AM

Title: Collecting All LBT Images!
Post by: landbeforetimelover on March 23, 2009, 12:52:57 AM
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I've started a new project.  It's not so much of an individual project as it is a group project.  I've added a new photo gallery to my website where members can upload any LBT photos they wish.  There are 398 images in there so far.  If you have any LBT images you would like to contribute, please upload them.  There is unlimited space so don't worry.  If someone out there has a 20gb LBT image collection, please upload as much as you want. :yes Let's see how many LBT images we can get.

You must be registered in order to upload photos.  However, the photos you upload will be attributed to you, so people know who uploaded each photo.  Neat, huh?

Check Out The New (2016) System! (http://www.thelandbeforetime.org/photo-gallery/)

Any images uploaded here will assist others in their LBT projects, provide LBT backgrounds for others to use, or just allow others to have cool images on their computers. :)
Title: Collecting All LBT Images!
Post by: Malte279 on March 23, 2009, 04:54:44 PM
I like this a lot. Such a collection could come in handy for many projects (and may also be helpful to meet the many picture requests). I signed up (the confirmation email should arrive any moment) to upload what pictures I have. There are almost certainly identical images to be uploaded. Is there a way to divide the pictures into different folders (named for example after the sequels and TV episodes)? If thousands of pictures are to be collected there this might make it easier to find pictures of particular scenes or characters or the like.
Title: Collecting All LBT Images!
Post by: landbeforetimelover on March 23, 2009, 05:07:06 PM
I can create separate albums for each gallery, but as for adding folders I don't think that's possible yet.  Sorry.  I suppose I could create a bunch of separate albums, but then people would have to remember to select the right one when uploading and pictures would just end up everywhere.  Heck, even I can't remember to select the category I want to put the pictures in.  I think making new albums for every type of picture would be more confusing to people (both uploaders and browsers alike) then to have them all mashed together in one category.  The photo gallery is still in Beta stage so I'm hoping folders will be a possibility soon.  Then I'll spend the time to rearrange them.  Until then though, every single image is just going to have to be in a single album with no folders.  Yeah I know it sucks but it won't last forever.
Title: Collecting All LBT Images!
Post by: Malte279 on March 23, 2009, 05:27:19 PM
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I can create separate albums for each gallery, but as for adding folders I don't think that's possible yet.
Bad choice of words on my part. Different albums (not folders) are what I meant.
I guess albums named after the different sequels or episodes might be an option to make particular images easier to find if there are to be thousands and thousands of them.
Title: Collecting All LBT Images!
Post by: landbeforetimelover on March 23, 2009, 06:23:09 PM
True true, but as I said you must choose the album you wish to upload to and normally people just forget to do that.  This will make say 10 albums that are totally mismarked.  I don't think that's such a great idea.  Of course, I could just change the name of the current album to "General LBT Photos" and add other albums such as "Characters" and sequel numbers.  I'll try that soon.  Can't right now though.  I'm on reeeeeealy slow WIFI at the pizza place. :p
Title: Collecting All LBT Images!
Post by: Malte279 on March 23, 2009, 06:34:02 PM
It was just a suggestion anyway. However, maybe GOF members are able to remember selecting albums, only the results would tell.
Title: Collecting All LBT Images!
Post by: Mumbling on March 25, 2009, 07:19:55 AM
I added some pictures :)
Title: Collecting All LBT Images!
Post by: Malte279 on March 25, 2009, 08:01:58 AM
I still didn't get the confirmation mail for my registration. I must have made some mistake about it and should register again I reckon.
Title: Collecting All LBT Images!
Post by: Malte279 on March 25, 2009, 08:06:03 AM
Ooops, I must have signed up ages ago already which is why the new attempt with the old address did not work. My mistake.
Title: Collecting All LBT Images!
Post by: Malte279 on March 25, 2009, 12:06:07 PM
I've uploaded a couple of images there, but easy as it was, I could not withstand the temptation of creating individual albums for the different movies after all rather than putting all pictures in the same album. I really think with the number of pictures LBT fans might find it a lot easier to find what they are looking for if the pictures are arranged a bit and a filing by movie seems to be the easiest approach. I hope that many of you will participate and upload pictures to the albums. I think Austin started a project here from which LBT fans and projects can really benefit a lot and this will be ever more true, the more pictures are uploaded :yes
Title: Collecting All LBT Images!
Post by: Malte279 on March 25, 2009, 01:40:41 PM
I have no idea why, but for some reason most of the pictures I'm trying to upload are not uploaded properly but appear as errors with either the notification "Error #2038" or with a message reading just "500".
Title: Collecting All LBT Images!
Post by: Malte279 on March 25, 2009, 03:01:26 PM
They seem to be having some trouble. Another message now coming up upon submitting uploaded pictures reads:
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Oops! There was a temporary glitch with this application. We have been notified of the problem and will be repairing it. Please feel free to go back and try again.
Pictures uploaded before seem to be gone again when that message comes up. That's why the folders for LBT 7 and 9 are still empty so far.
This is the url of the level of the gallery where different albums can be picked (and created): http://www.freewebs.com/landbeforetimelover/apps/photos/ (http://www.freewebs.com/landbeforetimelover/apps/photos/).
Title: Collecting All LBT Images!
Post by: Mumbling on March 25, 2009, 03:10:34 PM
Nice 5 post malte.

Yesterday the site gave thesame 'oops' problem. I'm not sure what it is but I'm sure Austin can do something about it or it'll be taken care of automatically.
Title: Collecting All LBT Images!
Post by: Malte279 on March 25, 2009, 03:31:25 PM
^ I think it is an issue of that server beyond the control of anyone of us.
Title: Collecting All LBT Images!
Post by: landbeforetimelover on March 25, 2009, 04:33:12 PM
Yeah......as I said it's still in Beta.  I got that error a few times too.  I just had to retry.  I wouldn't recommend trying to upload more than 100 photos at once.  It'd suck to have to redo them all and wait all that time.  Hopefully the problem will be fixed soon.  Freewebs is pretty good at that. ;)

EDIT:  And thanks for making those albums Malte.  I've been very busy lately and haven't been able to do much with my site.  I will have to change the permissions for regular members to create albums though.  That could be disastrous if I got a spammer.  Once we figure out all the albums we're going to currently need, I'll make the permission to make new albums an "admins only" thing.
Title: Collecting All LBT Images!
Post by: Malte279 on March 25, 2009, 05:09:07 PM
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Once we figure out all the albums we're going to currently need, I'll make the permission to make new albums an "admins only" thing.
I agree that this would be perfectly sensible to prevent an outcropping of uncountable private albums for everyone who uploads pictures. I reckon an album for every movie would make sense though.
I wonder how many pictures people have of the TV episodes and if one for them all or one per episode would make sense (in the later case there would be 39 albums which may be a rather long list of albums).
On another note, I must stress that most of the screenshots I upload were not made by my, but were sent to me by many other GOF members over the years, so that credit goes to them.
Title: Collecting All LBT Images!
Post by: landbeforetimelover on March 25, 2009, 06:19:25 PM
I think a category for every character and every movie makes sense.  So many people ask where they can find pictures of Chomper for instance.  An album for every TV episode seems a bit excessive.....especially if a second season comes out.  I can always modify it in the future of course.
Title: Collecting All LBT Images!
Post by: landbeforetimelover on March 26, 2009, 07:57:12 PM
Well, I've added a category for every movie and every character.  What do you guys think?  Can you contribute?
Title: Collecting All LBT Images!
Post by: Malte279 on April 04, 2009, 07:41:05 PM
I uploaded some more images today and I really want to encourage everyone to upload what images you have. This picture collection project could be helpful on very many occasions and projects (e.g. this year's awards session to begin with) and the more people contribute the more helpful it will be :yes
I have one more suggestion Austin. Perhaps one more album should be created for the TV series images for those images which are not focused on one character in particular and are not from the original movie or the sequels either (I reckon many pictures would match those criteria).
Title: Collecting All LBT Images!
Post by: kanganix on April 05, 2009, 05:47:00 AM
need images of TLBT i got from the movie and the series. what kind ^^ ?
Title: Collecting All LBT Images!
Post by: landbeforetimelover on April 05, 2009, 09:08:01 AM
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need images of TLBT i got from the movie and the series. what kind ^^ ?

Anything you've got so long as it's appropriate and not fanart. :)
Title: Collecting All LBT Images!
Post by: Malte279 on April 07, 2009, 05:32:26 AM
Are there any problems with the page at the moment? I'm trying to upload more images to the LBT 9 folder, but for some reason the link "upload photos" below the orange frame on the "add photos" page never seems to load, preventing me from uploading anything at this time.
Title: Collecting All LBT Images!
Post by: landbeforetimelover on April 07, 2009, 05:49:15 PM
You should be able to have it work later.  Freewebs is always having little glitches like this.  Their server seems pretty slow lately.  I'm sure it'll all be resolved in time. :)
Title: Collecting All LBT Images!
Post by: NeoGenesis005 on April 07, 2009, 11:14:48 PM
Does anyone notice there alot of picture involving Cera in them?
Title: Collecting All LBT Images!
Post by: Malte279 on April 08, 2009, 04:30:41 PM
I uploaded a pile of LBT 9 images (Cera pictures included NeoGenesis005) today, having the upload run in the background while I was doing other stuff. I really hope that more people contribute to this project and upload pictures, especially of those movies / the TV series which are so far not widely covered. There is very frequent and concrete need for LBT images. It would be really awesome if all GOF members with LBT images uploaded them so they are available to everyone.
Title: Collecting All LBT Images!
Post by: landbeforetimelover on April 08, 2009, 05:46:03 PM
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It would be really awesome if all GOF members with LBT images uploaded them so they are available to everyone.

Perhaps making this topic a sticky would help?  It gets down on the list pretty fast.
Title: Collecting All LBT Images!
Post by: Malte279 on April 09, 2009, 03:10:13 AM
I agree :yes
Here we go.
Title: Collecting All LBT Images!
Post by: Malte279 on April 09, 2009, 05:43:37 PM
Uploaded more LBT 9 images today 279 total by now. But other folders are totally empty so far. It would be great if people who have them (and given the frequent pictures in the caption this section I'm sure many here must have pictures) would share them by uploading them there. The folders of some movies are completely empty so far.
Title: Collecting All LBT Images!
Post by: Kor on April 09, 2009, 07:37:16 PM
What it folks have no idea what movie a screen shot they have is from?
Title: Collecting All LBT Images!
Post by: landbeforetimelover on April 09, 2009, 08:03:04 PM
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What it folks have no idea what movie a screen shot they have is from?

That's what the "General LBT Images" album is for.
Title: Collecting All LBT Images!
Post by: landbeforetimelover on July 16, 2009, 04:08:40 AM
I'm very pleased that so many members have contributed to this little project.  We now have exactly 1,171 images!  I only uploaded a few myself.  Great work guys! :yes
Title: Collecting All LBT Images!
Post by: landbeforetimelover on July 26, 2009, 03:55:20 PM
Seeing as I've dumped Freewebs and have no way to download and post photos that are in my now obsolete album, I have updated the link in my first post.  Now photos may be viewed and downloaded directly from folders on my server.  It may not be the best system, but it's as good as I can do right now.

Malte has generously uploaded all of the LBT images he has and I will work to get mine on there too (I'm not so organized when it comes to my photos :p ).  If anyone else would like to contribute, it's now easier than ever to upload photos.  No membership is required.

If you need to upload a large amount of photos, just put them all in an archive and upload the .zip, .rar, .tar, etc. file to the server.  I'll review the contents of the archive and extract it in due time.
Title: Collecting All LBT Images!
Post by: Adder on June 28, 2010, 03:44:05 PM
Landbeforetimelover, when I clicked on the link, it took for ever to load and when it did, this page came up:

(http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100628194331/theiceage/images/2/27/NoPAGE.PNG)

Why?
Title: Collecting All LBT Images!
Post by: Kor on June 28, 2010, 04:22:36 PM
I would upload mine, but I guess I'd have to download all the ones I have on photobucket and webshots.  Not sure how much of them Malte, or anyone else, may have already uploaded.
Title: Collecting All LBT Images!
Post by: landbeforetimelover on June 28, 2010, 06:08:23 PM
Sorry, but I changed domain names.  The link in my first post is now fixed.  Though I'm planning on creating a new type of upload system.  The system I have here was only temporary anyway.  Then people can contribute more easily.
Title: Collecting All LBT Images!
Post by: landbeforetimelover on July 02, 2010, 05:54:28 AM
Whew!  I've spent about 35 long hours to create the next newest addition to TheLandBeforeTime.org.  Check it out!  I've created a whole new photo uploading system from scratch:

Check Out The New System! (http://www.thelandbeforetime.org/photos.html)

It was a lot of work, but this is much more like what I wanted when I first broke away from Freewebs.  Sorry for the inability to upload multiple files at once.  I still don't have the skills to create a flash uploader yet.  But uploading is pretty speedy once you get the hang of it.

Now I've made it open and available to everyone.  People can even create new folders if they want.  Please do not abuse this privilege.  Be glad I implemented this before I implemented a member signup script (which is likely to take me MONTHS (maybe even a year) to complete thanks to my busy life).  In the end, TheLandBeforeTime.org will be totally reformed to a much more dynamic, active community rather than just a site to host static files. :yes
Title: Collecting All LBT Images!
Post by: Apple on September 25, 2010, 01:28:06 AM
When I click on the link it says the website is unsafe and contains viruses. I don't think it does but do you think it is safe to go on?
Title: Collecting All LBT Images!
Post by: 2007excalibur2007 on September 25, 2010, 02:22:27 AM
^

He RUNS the site, Apple. Go figure. ;)
Title: Collecting All LBT Images!
Post by: Adder on September 25, 2010, 07:35:04 AM
Quote from: Apple,Sep 25 2010 on  12:28 AM
When I click on the link it says the website is unsafe and contains viruses. I don't think it does but do you think it is safe to go on?
I always get the same thing, I hit go to website anyway. Nothing happens.
Title: Collecting All LBT Images!
Post by: landbeforetimelover on September 25, 2010, 12:02:16 PM
Get AVG or Microsoft Security Essentials people.  Norton and McAfee are always going to give you false positives all the time (not to mention slow your computer down).  The reason for the virus warnings on crap antivirus programs is the fact that the code isn't secure.  It's just wide open so that anyone can upload anything without having to register.  This is rare and very suspicious to antivirus programs and the bad programs will flag it immediately because they don't know how to protect you legitimately.  Norton/McAfee are like User Account Control.  They're annoying as hell, utterly useless, and they don't really work or do what they were originally designed to do.
Title: Collecting All LBT Images!
Post by: Apple on October 02, 2010, 11:52:19 PM
thank you, it is a great site! I never thought it was unsafe I just wanted to know why my computer was saying it was.
Title: Collecting All LBT Images!
Post by: Salvatore Blackheart on February 16, 2011, 02:54:01 PM
would be prohibited post links of screenshots in a reply?
Title: Collecting All LBT Images!
Post by: Adder on March 11, 2011, 05:48:41 PM
Quote from: Salvatore Blackheart,Feb 16 2011 on  01:54 PM
would be prohibited post links of screenshots in a reply?
Its not. Screenshots can be posted.
Title: Collecting All LBT Images!
Post by: Bruton the Iguanodon on February 11, 2012, 03:53:47 PM
I've posted dozens of screenshots in the short time I've been here. I've got a whole collection of Ducky, Petrie and Spike images, so I hope to contribute those.  :exactly
Title: Collecting All LBT Images!
Post by: Bruton the Iguanodon on April 11, 2013, 07:11:38 PM
BTW, I can put all the screenshots I've uploaded in here, can't I?
Title: Collecting All LBT Images!
Post by: Ducky123 on May 31, 2013, 08:45:45 PM
I think you can upload them, Bruton :)

anyway, do I have to be a member there to visit everything???
Title: Collecting All LBT Images!
Post by: Petrie85 on June 01, 2013, 05:53:25 PM
Yeah I also think you can do that Bruton I don't see why you can't.
Title: Collecting All LBT Images!
Post by: landbeforetimelover on March 28, 2016, 01:28:44 PM
The entire TheLandBeforeTime.org website has been completely updated, and so has the image gallery!  We have over DOUBLE the images we had before, but we're always accepting more!  Please scroll up to the original post for more details (I've edited my original post to reflect the changes).
Title: Collecting All LBT Images!
Post by: Ducky123 on March 29, 2016, 05:57:49 AM
Nice, was already wonderung what had happened to the site...

HOWEVER, when I see who was active there recently (*cough* ChomperHugger aka L&AT & Path Light *cough*) I'll savely avoid these creeps...