Hi all,
First off. This thread is to gather up the wishes of Arles users.
So, add you're wish(es) to this thread, but keep it short and to the point, but include a reason why. See the next post. (I will compile the wishes later into one POLL thread.)
After a appropriate time, a month or so, to give everyone a chance to add theirs, i will start a Poll.
The list will have to be voted on, to narrow it down to 3 (possibly 5, IF Jan has spare time left, gives up his vacation, and does not eat for a month. LOL.) Else none will really get priority we are asking Jan to give it.
For voting i will start a POLL in about a month - 6 weeks, say 1st of September.
Hopefully Jan will give priority to the 3 options/features most voted for, and starts to add them to one of the following beta releases.
Greets all,
Toon D.
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Toon D Advanced Member
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Hi all,
To start things off, here are my wishes in order of my priority. A option to have Arles read the filename of the Image and place it in a user defined IPTC field. --- Multiple Top/First Index Pages for Multi Folder Galleries. (At present Arles allows only 1 Top index, whilst subindices can be multiple pages.) --- Seperate Titling for Indices consisting of multiple pages. --- Scaleable general font size for the Arles Program. (with 22+ inch widescreen monitors more common the text size is getting hard to read) --- Greets. Toon D. |
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HM New Member
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What I really would like to see is some attention for image SEO. All my images are properly IPTC-tagged for stock and in Titles>Advanced, it's really simple and well done to use those tags.
There is already the Page Title (Page Caption) as a rudimentary way of SEO, but nothing is provided for the META tags "description" and "keywords". I know you can put it in the HTML design under "head", but then I'd have to do it manually for every image. Which is of course unfeasible for 1000's of images. Especially since "description" (IPTC-caption) and "keywords" (IPTC-keywords) are already filled in the IPTC. It could well fit into the Advanced Title Options window both under Index Pages and Image Pages, with full access to the text generation script, looking something like META description and META keywords, outputting the corresponding meta info into the <head> of the HTML page. A second thing vital for SEO is the ability to rename the image file name for upload to something that makes sense to the image bots, like the image title (IPTC-object name). For instance an image "DSC_12345.jpg" with title (IPTC object name) = "Doctor examining coughing patient" should be renamed for upload to "doctor-examining-coughing-patient-DSC12345.jpg" (replace spaces by hyphens and all to lower case - adding original name to avoid conflicts for images with the same title). These (simple additions) would make Arles very attractive for the large group of stock photographers that want an online presence and break into Google Images. |
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Toon D Advanced Member
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Hiya HM,
SEO ??? Please explain, so we may all understand. Just thought i'd ask. Greets. Toon D. |
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HM New Member
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Search Engine Optimization = SEO. Like how to score high in Google and Google images (this also applies to other search engines like Yahoo, Bing...).
As the robots (bots) that crawl the web regularly can only see text and not see images, you'll have to help them by surrounding your image(s) with text. The bots try to make up what the image is about by looking at 1. the page title (the <title> tag, 2. the META description in the <head> section, 3. the META keywords in the <head> section, 4. text surrounding the image, preferably in the same <DIV>, 5. ALT and TITLE tags, 6. the file name of the image. Currently, the bots don't read the IPTC metadata. The current Arles addresses 1,4 and 5 (if you use the titles cleverly), but not 2,3 and 6. Read here for instance: http://www.theseoworld.com/blog/google-images-search-optimization/ ----------- Edit: adding an xml sitemap focused on images would also be very useful for SEO. Without a proper sitemap, your images will not rank high in Google Images, as the automatic robots will address the design elements (like buttons) and thumbs too and assume from the many repeats that the site isn't an image site. The image robots are not that clever, and they can't "see" images. Amongst the many images referenced on a single image page (if you add navigation), there will only be one relevant image reference near the end of the page, but the bots will have giving up crawling your site already then. Moreover, they will get confused since the image is on another page than the HTML of it 
For each image page in /imagepages, an entry should be added to the sitemap.xml file like this: Code:<loc>http://www.mysite.com/galleries/imagepages/paris-image1.html</loc><image:image> <image:loc>http://www.mysite.com/galleries/images/paris-by-night-eiffeltower-DCS001.jpg</image:loc> <image:title>Paris by night with the Eiffel Tower silhouette.</image:title> </image:image> <lastmod>2010-08-20T11:18:13+00:00</lastmod> <priority>1.00</priority> </url> As I see it, it can easily be handled in the Titles>advanced, adding a log file and tokens for (absolute URL of page) and (absolute URL of image). The image title can be taken from the IPTC or whatever with the already existing tokens. I can assure you that this will open a large market for Arles with (semi-) pro stock photographers (hundreds of thousands on Shutterstock alone) that want to push themselves in Google Images. |
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