Advice on Website Passwords Please

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I really need some advice. Urgently.

I am currently processing photos from 2 nursery shoots i did recently. My website was not set up when i started but I promised both parents and nurserys that afterwards parents would be able to view their childrens photos through a secure internet link via my website and would be given a Unique password to do this. ( My partner is in IT and was adamant this was possible).

However I have now hit a huge problem. My partner has delayed starting the site. Straight forward he said! Last night he started putting he childrens names on etc and created passwords for each. BUT when he tried to do this it didnt work and the only option now is to have each nursery and kids names under one section with same one password. Which basically means parents can go on and look at all kids photos as everyone will have same password.

He is using Yola with my domain which i purchased last year. Also Yola puts pics on flicker and Im not sure who can view these.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated as I am going to have to tell people that there is a link but everyone has one password which in this day and age will not go down well. The only other way i can think to do it is to give them cd's with watermarked images on them but this is going to be time consuming and also I was trying to set paypal option up for payment but this will not be an option if parents start freaking out.

HELP!!!! :'(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(
 
I certainly wouldn't upload photos that have been promised as secure to Flickr!

It is possible to password protect directories, so I would set up a separate directory for each child (identified with a unique number rather than name) and give each parent the directory number, say www.geminipspictures.com/1345 and the password they need for that directory.

I'm sure there is some sort of CMS that would handle this more efficiently, hopefully someone else will be able to tell you about that.
 
Set your site up using Wordpress, this has an option for password protected files.

I spent ages (weeks/months) trying to neatly password protect files on the previous incarcaration of my site and in the end I put the pages up but did not link them to the main site - just sent the clients the address of the individual pages which I had added a robot no follow command to in the hope that google etc did not list them.

With Wordpress it is so much easier - it says it is a blog creator but it can be used for normal websites as well :-)
 
So you're going to give each parent a letter with a URL, username and password for their childs photo then?
Do your web hosts support .htaccess directory restrictions? If it does, you can restrict individual directories on your site to a specific user (with password).
Not the most elegant solution, but it would certainly be the quickest.
 
Gallery2 will provide you with what you want to do
 
TBH with yola I think you are very limited with what you can achieve regarding secure pages. It appears to be a WYSIWYG editor with a flickr module. Flickr is a community site and therefore doesn't allow 'commercial' features like protecting sets, you can only manage, your friends, family and private settings, which doesn't help in this instance.

Sorry but with your chosen host I don't see any options for you

edit: Did you get your domain with the yola site or is it separately registered? say with 123-reg for instance
 
I realise that now. I was not involved with choosing Yola.

I got my domain through Fasthosts. £9 per year i think
 
I think the only way you can do this is to have search page. For this each child is given a code (number) when inserted takes them to a folder on your system with that childs images. Numbers must be random so people cannot just put consecutive numbers in to see other images. Software must (I assume) have a shopping cart to enable the parents to buy.
 
OK how quick do you need this?
Fasthosts appear to support dns and quicker fix web forwarding.
By partner do you mean business partner?
Yola is 100% free so you have not lost anything by choosing them
 
Pbase can do this easily and is free for the 1st few months. Then just hot link your domain to pbase/youraccount. Works for me.
 
Need sorted ASAP. I did shoot 3 weeks ago. So frustrating as i have photos ready but now this problem.

Its my partner not business.
 
I got my domain from fasthosts. If i pay them to host website do you think this would help me? 50% off at min :)
 
Yes you could do that.
You'll then need to know how to build a website or install some software that will help, like gallery2 or pixlepost or use something like jalbum. You will need to check what fasthost support, you'll need mysql to use somehting like gallery2 and somethig simple like control panel access to allow setting of directory permissions of you go for pixlepost or jalbum.

OK, I'll give you a couple of options as a temp solution you could download Jalbum
(it's a really simple package to learn) choose a skin (how the albums look) and build an album with seperate folders for each subject.

I will offer you some webspace on a temp basis where you can upload the jalbum, I'll then set the permissions on the folders for you.

Or I'll load wordpress or even gallery2 if thats what you want but they take longer to configure for what you want.

Dont expect anything for it, just trying to help you out.
 
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OK, I'll give you a couple of options as a temp solution you could download Jalbum
(it's a really simple package to learn) choose a skin (how the albums look) and build an album with seperate folders for each subject.

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JAlbum will also host your Jalbum folders for free. You can password protect each/all folders too.

Anthony.
 
hi geminip,

have you managed to resolve this yet?

if you pay fasthosts to host your site, they are probably only going to give you webspace to work with.

if they support php/mysql etc etc then you can probably download gallery software as mentioned above.

if they support php, then if your partner googles simple PHP passwords, then he should be able to find the code to allow to you quickly create protected pages for each kid.

good luck
 
Hi renhy,

Thanks for your advice.

Slowly getting there and looks like we could have possibly cracked the password problem.

Fingers crossed :clap::):):)
 
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