sitemap including images

[Das Capitolin]

Hello:

Since version 2.1.5 now supports Google images sitemaps, I've been interested in mapping the many thousands of images on my site for submission. Unfortunately, A1 displays "Forbidden 403" (You don't have permission to access /images) in the site analysis for each image directory.  I've confirmed that file permissions are identical for each directory (0777), but it appears that only directories with index.html in them are accepted by A1.  I have added image file type extensions to the analysis filter, but to no avail.

Any feedback is welcome.  If you would like, I could send you my configuration file.

[Webhelpforums]

To Barbyr:

I will post link to new beta here. It's actually a rather large update on the inside (not related to image sitemaps) which is why it's not released in public yet. I will create a new build later tonight!


To Das Capitolin:

What's your website address? Feel free to email me your A1 Sitemap Generator project file! I will be happy to take a look

[Webhelpforums]

It is going to be late today/tonight instead. Sorry for the delay, but I am finishing up last couple of things before releasing new beta build

[Webhelpforums]

New betas posted, please see this thread for links

[Barbyr]

Thomas, are you still here? I can't get the latest release to work at all now. It just locks up my machine when I tell it to build the image sitemap. Help!
Bruce

[Das Capitolin]

Thomas, are you still here? I can't get the latest release to work at all now. It just locks up my machine when I tell it to build the image sitemap. Help!
Bruce

I reported this to him as well.  My images number beyond 11,000 so it wasn't surprising, but when I delete many of the images (down to 400 or so) the sitemap only lists a few random images.

[Webhelpforums]

Sent over email. And working on the problem you reported as well. Sorry for the delay

[Das Capitolin]

Sent over email. And working on the problem you reported as well. Sorry for the delay

We appreciate all of your hard work.  I know you've got a lot to look at with this new version.  Thank you for your efforts!

[Webhelpforums]

Here is the 2.2.1 beta

I identified the issue which could cause endless loop when building image sitemaps for some websites.

Sorry for the long time

Thanks everyone for continuing reporting this issue to me.



By the way, this beta includes an offline copy of the new improved A1 Sitemap Generator help. This makes the download somewhat larger. I am currently considering if/how/what to do about that But I am aware the download file has increased to 5.5 mb

[Das Capitolin]

By the way, this beta includes an offline copy of the new improved A1 Sitemap Generator help. This makes the download somewhat larger. I am currently considering if/how/what to do about that But I am aware the download file has increased to 5.5 mb

I won't speak for others, but to me 5.5MB is really nothing at all. That's much smaller than most anti-virus definition downloads.

[Webhelpforums]

What I am doing now is converting all images in help to 256 colors. I think that reduces help size with about 50%. After that, I will just be happy and ship the entire help with the downloads. As you say, most people will not mind and probably instead appreciate being able to access the complete help at all times

Do please let me know if you find any continued problems with image sitemaps. I am finally catching up to my backlog of todo things, so I will be very focused on clearing out bugs/problems in 2.2.1 until release! (I really hate bugs, but you can't avoid them at times... unfortunately)

[Das Capitolin]

What I am doing now is converting all images in help to 256 colors. I think that reduces help size with about 50%.

I suggest using PNG or GIF, with 128 color count and significant color snap. These will be much smaller than JPGs.

[Webhelpforums]

I ended up with converting to 256 colors.
I then made 2.2.1 releases of all A1 products available.

I have afterwards also run
http://www.smushit.com/ysmush.it/
against all images cutting 3-5% extra (not really worth the time, but have you first begun then...)

I am also working on making the entire microsystools.com website a bit faster in hope of slightly improving bounce rates and adwords scores further
When done, I will probably also see if this forum can become a little faster