Building Galleries with Pasta

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After you read this article either you'll purchase more content or purchase a script. I'm hoping for the latter because you owe it to yourself, if your spending to much time building galleries. I have been using this script for about a year now, definitely worth it's weight in gold. For instance, you just purchased 1000 pics, how long would it take you make 66, 15 pic galleries? Honestly answer that question. If it takes you more than 10 minutes you are spending way to much time!!! I am not out of my mind here, ok 5 minutes :) The script itself is a simple perl script, you just need to be able to define paths, absolute urls for your pic and thumb directories, and alt tags. Create a template, define template path, create a directory for the html pages and give it 777 permissions then you're all set.

I am not going to tell you how to compress your pics. What I do is separate the horizontal from the vertical images, then compress. I have found I get better size consistency when I do horiz/vertical separation. While your pics are uploading you can start on a new template. The script has one variable/token "thumb" or what ever you want to call it. Anyplace you would like a thumbnail place "thumb". Take your time setting up your metas, page title and upload the template, you're all set to 'rip galleries". Call up the script in your browser and hit refresh until all your pics are exhausted. Buy new content next month or this month put a Gallery Maker in your webmaster tool box. Use some under exposed sponsor content hehe.

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One very cool feature about the script is that the galleries are named with a 5 digit "non sequential random number" a great feature for nailing hot linkers and curious surfers. You never want to name your galleries gal1, gal2 etc. something a lot of gallery maker scripts seem to overlook. We are not done yet. Check your galleries, make sure your pics load on a couple of galleries. If you made a mistake with one of your urls you will know it immediately. Fix the cgi file and make new galleries. If they load you can be assured that the rest will load, your pics won't be broken. You now have a directory full of no recip galleries. Leave the directory open for just a minute "no index html", call up the directory in your browser and print the directory. You now have a listing of all your no recip galleries available for submission. Put these into a folder, binder whatever. A valuable time saving tool for sure, get organized and save even more time.

The Russian submitter is getting a lot of praise lately for sure, if you have used the submitter you know you have to upload a new gallery from your pc to their server prior to setting up your submission criteria. You just made galleries on your server, printed out a directory listing. Download the galleries into a submitter folder similar to your gallery directory which makes it real easy to submit different niches, different sponsors daily.

How about those premium Avs sites. Do you want to code in all the urls for your gallery pages or would you rather just create a new template, define a few paths, point a script at a photo set, and hit refresh a few times? If you decide to buy a script and want some assistance just shoot me an email. It would be my pleasure to help you get started ripping galleries.

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