DOCUMENTATION ONLINE AGAIN!
Posted: Wed May 01, 2013 8:15 am
New Documents page:
Click Here!
Hi Guys,
After various options of compressing, zipping, etc of our documents I found that if I compressed we lose resolution. No big deal for text but some of the photos are bad enough to figure out but with added loss of resolution they became downright ugly.
So, I have decided to host all the documents on my "CaptainScottSailing.com" web page.
Here I can offer up all the docs with the full resolution that I have received them in. No compression! Some of the files are huge!
Next, I am lazy so I needed a way to display docs without having to maintain a dynamic web page on a regular basis. So what I have done is create a directory structure on the disk. The php page scans the directory on disk and uses the directory name as a header. Then it gets a list of each file in that directory, sorts it, and displays it as a link you can download the file from! All this means is when I get a new document, I FTP it to the server in the proper directory, and it is immediatly available to everyone! No code changes, no page changes, NOTHING! Yeah!
The whole concept is pretty basic and simple and VERY EASY to maintain.
I will update our main page here to reflect the new location for documents later tonight. For now, I have added a "Documents" link to my signature in my posts where you can get to the files. Also the link is at the top of this post.
Thanks for everyone who has graciously donated documents to our forum!
If anyone finds any missing documents, has more documents or finds a broken link, let me know!
Scott
Click Here!
Hi Guys,
After various options of compressing, zipping, etc of our documents I found that if I compressed we lose resolution. No big deal for text but some of the photos are bad enough to figure out but with added loss of resolution they became downright ugly.
So, I have decided to host all the documents on my "CaptainScottSailing.com" web page.
Here I can offer up all the docs with the full resolution that I have received them in. No compression! Some of the files are huge!
Next, I am lazy so I needed a way to display docs without having to maintain a dynamic web page on a regular basis. So what I have done is create a directory structure on the disk. The php page scans the directory on disk and uses the directory name as a header. Then it gets a list of each file in that directory, sorts it, and displays it as a link you can download the file from! All this means is when I get a new document, I FTP it to the server in the proper directory, and it is immediatly available to everyone! No code changes, no page changes, NOTHING! Yeah!
The whole concept is pretty basic and simple and VERY EASY to maintain.
I will update our main page here to reflect the new location for documents later tonight. For now, I have added a "Documents" link to my signature in my posts where you can get to the files. Also the link is at the top of this post.
Thanks for everyone who has graciously donated documents to our forum!
If anyone finds any missing documents, has more documents or finds a broken link, let me know!
Scott