Re: Customer wants a photo page that they can upload to
Depends if you have the site hosted on a server that'll let you run scripting languages.
Sounds like the same sort of functionality you'd see at any number of buy/sell or auto sales sites these days.
Years back, I was part of a team that built a site for a business in California that sells tow trucks, decks and equipment.
They wanted the ability to take digital photos of new and used equipment, manage photos and web pages and detailed instructions that explained exactly what they needed to do right from square one. The persons responsible for doing this were barely able to start up a PC and had no knowledge of HTML or how to work a digital camera.
We used a file VBScript-based file upload component (COM Object) and a bunch of custom scripting to upload and scale the images, create thumbnails, name and save them to dynamically created folders. In the back end, we employed an Access database to store page data and file locations.
Once they'd uploaded the images, they were able to build, modify or delete pages and also to select, rename or delete the photos (and matching thumbnails).
You should find it relatively simple to find a file upload component that'll allow you to dynamically upload and size the images but it might take some work to find a solution to creating custom content.
I think that most of the CMS (Content Management Systems) sites should provide some level of inspiration and/or support for what you need to do. Maybe start there...
Also, do some searches for File Upload components supported by your computer language of choice.
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