The first idea that came to mind for Zoomify was encouraging Real Estate agents to use Zoomify in creating Virtual tours of thier properties for sale. If you have great images of a property with lots of detail, use Zoomify to really draw your visitors into the property.
Navigate through this image just like you would a Google Map
Using Zoomify, you can upload and view extra large images, and see all the detail using a Google Maps-like pan and zoom navigation.
So, how does this work? It’s pretty easy, once you get past the initial configuration….Steps 1,2,3 below only have to be done the first time, of course.
Go and download Zoomify Express, a small client you download that will chop up your image into something that is pan-and-zoom able. This gets installed (unzipped actually) on your PC.
Zoomify your image by dragging it onto the Zoomify Converter.exe You can get detailed directions on the Zoomify site.
Install the YD-Zoomify plugin by Yann Dubois. If you don’t know how to install plugins on Wordpress, read Installing plugins on the Wordpress site. (if you install from the Wordpress auto-installer, you’ll want to replace the zoomifyViewer.swf file that comes with that version to the new version that came with your zoomify software install. FTP is your friend here. )
Upload your Zoomified image folder to Wordpress. Zoomify creates a folder named the same as your image, which contains an xml file, and one or more subfolders with a ton of images. I used FTP to upload these files to [wordpressInstallDirectory]/wp-content/uploads/[imagefoldername] — substitute the items in brackets with values from your own system.
Place the Zoomify command in your post. You’ll need to enter a code into your post where you want the Zoomified image to appear. You do this as follows:
Enter <!-- YDZOOM( 'fullURLToTheUploadedFolderOfImages', widthInPixels, heightInPixels, 'uniqeNameForThisZoomify') --> where:
fullURLToTheUploadedFolderOfImages, which goes in single quotes, is the full URL, including http:// to the location of this folder. something line ‘http://www.example.com/wp-content/uploads/myiamge’
widthInPixels, not in quotes, is the width of the area where you want to place the Zoomified image.
heightInPixels, not in quotes, same as width, only height.
uniqueNameForThisZoomify, in quotes, is and arbitrary name for this Zoomified image, make sure it starts with a letter. Each Zoomify instance you add to your post needs its own name.
A word of caution because it bit me…. The domain name you use for referencing the folder must match exactly the domain in your browser (for example http://example.com) otherwise you’ll get an “error loading” message. So if your browser says “http://example.com” but your fullURL entry above says “http://www.example.com” you’ll get an error because they don’t match. Make them match, or go learn about crossdomain.xml files and Flash.
I am a big ol fan of the text mate clone for windows known simply as “e”
However, when I tried to start it up today, it would hang when opening the recently used documents. I love this feature where E simply opens all the document that were open when you last closed the app. Handy!
Bust since the progress bar is a modal dialog box when the program opend, you are in deep doo-doo if something happens that causes e to lock up when trying to open those documents upon starup.
Apparently this can happen if you happen to BSOD while e is open (even if e is not the culprit.
Here is how to fix it.
Go to c:\Documents and Settings\[your user name]\Application Data\e\
and delete e.db (if you are nervous about this, rename it to something like “e-CORRUPT.db”
Restart e.
E should start back up in it;s plain vanilla configuration.
Below is a post from the Picasa Newsgroups. Onion is a really wonderful, knowledgeable contributor to the Picasa Group.
I think it is a common misconception that picasa actually makes copies of images, or somehow is one level away from the actual folders on your disk. Not true, as Onion notes below in this message thread.
From: JohnAlex
Subject: Remove from Picasa Index
How do I remove items from the Picasa index without affecting their
storage on my disks? Thanks for the help
From: Onion
Subject: Re: Remove from Picasa Index
Picasa is a photo organizational tool, with basic editing features.
Picasa does not physically store your images. They are all located on
your hard drive. Picasa just scans your hard drive, looking for any
images, and then creates a thumbnail reference to them. This means
that if you delete a photo in Picasa, you are deleting it from your
hard drive.
Go into the Folder Manager under Tools and change your settings for
what Picasa watches.
You can rotate images in Picasa as a batch from the Library view. Simply select all the images that need to be rotated in the SAME DIRECTION and Click CTRL+R to rotate clockwise, or CTRL+SHIFT+R to rotate counterclockwise.
Remember, that Picasa only rotates the images within it’s own view. If you want to use the rotated photo outside Picasa, you’ll need to Save the image after you rotate it. Picasa will make a backup of the original photo.
If you are a no-mouse kind of computer geek, you might like to know that you can toggle a star for any selected photo with CTRL+SHIFT+8. Good mnemonic device here. The 8 is the *
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