A free Christmas gift that keeps on giving! File warehousing has been a hot-topic in recent years and I’m often asked questions about it. So I decided to put together a short(ish) eBook on the subject.
This guide talks about what warehousing is and how you could potentially benefit from utilising the technique in your projects. It shows you how to create a simple warehouse directory in your preferred FTP software and also discusses how to optimise files ready for use. Methods of linking to warehoused files and embedding them in your webpages is covered. We dive-into the idea of building a commercial-grade file warehouse using Amazon S3 servers. And as a bonus, there also some information on building your very own ‘dropbox’ style collaborative environment using ownCloud.
I hope the contained information is of help and you find this guide to be an interesting read. This is just a ‘version 1’ so far, and it’s possible it might get expanded in future to include some more chapters or information.
May I take this opportunity to wish all my customers a very Merry Christmas and a prosperous 2017. It’s been another very successful year for ThemeFlood and Stacks4Stacks; plus the new seyDesign, RapidSearchPro and RWExtras projects that came onboard in August. I’m very grateful as ever for your past and future custom.
@willwood-
Thank you for this… and over 5 years of patience and knowledge!
For those that don’t know @willwood, I’ve been following him for over 5 years now. I use his themes, stacks and brain (ha)… He modified his Volcano theme for me and has the best support of his products I have seen in the Rapidweaver community. I am not a programmer, but with Will’s help and a lot of patience, I have built my site at least 3 times over as new updates and capabilities enter the RW landscape.
Happy Holidays to you, @willwood and to everyone in the RW community!
I’d just like to say, as a photographer, my website was hitting 600 mb. I’ve been replacing my drag and drop images with warehoused images and I’m now down to 110mb and still have more to replace.
Hi again Lisa.
I have found that I need to reduce the size of my images first, then Squash them for optimal compression. My images often start out around 20" x 24" at 280 dpi. I use Preview to change them to only 5 or 6 inches wide at 144 dpi first. Then Squash.
Squash would be more useful for me if I could also use it to reduce the image size. Maybe they will add a few image size presets.
I hope this helps.
Brad-
I have several “standard” shapes and sizes I set up in Photoshop (as layers) and I drag all my images in those files, then save for web, so I start with smaller size to begin with, before dropping my files into Squash. But then again, I am a graphic designer and photographer who has been using Photoshop for close to 30 years, so others may not have my knowledge or know-how.
That might be a good thing for Squash to do, but not necessary for me
Lisa