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Thanks for the input! I'm working on an "all else fails" square filler now, should be up fairly soon. Right now, I don't have a money plan. At first, the goal is to use it to direct people to the Fauxsaics website, which has Adsene integrated in and more people means more clicks. Once the app is stable I'd like to integrate ads into it and then reintroduced shirt selling as a viable income source. But for now, it's basically not making any money and the website(which I hope to upgrade soon with my new AJAX abilities) makes about $.10 a day.

Hi, so I doubt anybody remembers me, but I run a small website called Fauxsaics that creates photo mosaics from users pictures. So recently, I felt like if I made a Facebook App, it could draw users and maybe even make me succesful. Now I'm not an expert at the Facebook server, so it's a little touchy but could mean the world to my mini-business. This app is brand new, and I just finished this build about an hour ago, so it's still in the beta stage. I'm hoping for it to be big, but I could really use some feedack about how well it works so far, and this is the best place I know to get it You can find the app at http://apps.facebook.com/fauxsaics/ Any feedback would be much obliged!!! Thanks!!!

Thank you! I was really hoping someone would tell me they were having a problem like that, it sure beats "people aren't using the website because they're not interested in what the website does". I'm going to look into some methods making it seem more direct. In the mean time, I have added a set of step by step instructions to uploading on the top(the yellow bar) that should give people a better idea of how to make it and I have disabled the next step button for pictures with no tile pictures, but also added a caption explaining why they shouldn't press next step with a direct link to importing pictures from Facebook, which I believe is the best way to add tiles. Thanks again, hope it helps!

hey, sorry for bumping, but before I let this page fade into obscurity, I was wondering 2 things: 1) According to Google Analytics, most people are creating their canvas picture, but are not uploading any tiles. I've checked the buttons and their all working for me, has anyone else had problems? 2)Also, does anyone have a good idea on how to promote the site? I really think it's a good idea, but nothing I do sticks, probably because possibly because of the first question. Does anyone know a photography forum, or anything of the sort that might be interested?

heh, that's embarrassing . Just fixed all of those(except the search issue, couldn't find the problem when I tried it). Everything is now sanitized for the users convenience using either a red font warning or a JavaScript form validation. The page is once again open to users, so feel free to continue criticizing.

Thanks for the advice! You brought up some good points that I'm going to work on to try to maximize the website. I think I agree about the green especially, I wanted it to be a signature idea, but now that think about it, most websites don't use one makor color(except white), I'll probably mix some more blue and white into it since they don't clash and most sites use that scheme. I fixed the ads, they're now centered and I changed the background color to blend with the box they're in instead of the total background. it really does look much better. I see what you mean about everything being square, but I kind of like it. It seems to go with the theme of breaking down the pictures, maybe that's just me though. I'm working on the smaller resolution thing, according to past experince no one seems to use the manual tile sizer so I guess it's my job to set up a good one from them from the start. If you don't mind me asking though, what do you think of the site's functionality? According to Google Analytics, no one seems to be finishing their mosaic or uploading tiles as if it give them an error, but whenever I try the site, it runs fine. if anyone could tell me if they ran into a problem or couldn't find a button I'd me much obliged. Thanks again!

NOTE: The actual mosaic page is at http://www.fauxsaics.com/canvasupload.php?step=0 I should've put that in the first post but it won't let me edit it now.

Hi, I've been working on small website called Fauxsaics (Faux Photo Mosaics) for a while that uses PHP to create photo mosaics for it's users. I've recently redesigned it to make it more efficient and would really love for people to test it. You can currently upload tile pictures, copy them from other websites, or import them from Facebook. If anyone wants to try it, feel free to let me know how you process went and what you think of the final result. One example of me is attached. http://www.fauxsaics.com/ [attachment deleted by admin]

This has been bothering me for weeks and I've been trying to solve it without asking for help, but eventually I had to give up Basically, I have a website that is based around manipulating photos with php commands(imagecopymerge,imagecolorat,etc.) however, one page, which compiles all of the data together, is way too large. Most of the time it results in an internal server error. Base on what a GoDaddy Customer service representative said, I assumed that this problem is caused by the script taking too much of the server's time and concentration. Because of this, I wrote a code to by pass it by doing some of the commands, then refreshing with a changed GET variable to tell the page where to start based on how high the number is. This kind of solved the problem, but there's still a 50% chance that I will get a server error on any random step for reasons I don't understand. My question is, is there any way I can stop an internal server error 500, or redirect the page automatically when it happens? And if not, what part of a website package would I need to upgrade to allocate more time and processing power for my website? Thank you!

Thanks, I guess I'll stay with files for now, not point in learning a new system unless it's much faster. maybe when I get to user accounts...

Hi, me again Sorry to bother you with a fairly trivial question but I have a website that's very reliant on loading dozens of variables from a txt document into an array. It is starting to run too slow. I was just wondering if it would be quicker to use MySQL. Until now I have been avoiding it but if it will in fact save time to load values from a database instead of text file, I will. Thank you!

Hello again, I was just wondering us there a way to use a php script to create a new web page. I guess the best example is something like YouTube where when a video is uploaded, it's assigned a new web address and can be visited there. For a while I had planned on having one dynamic page where information can be called to make it look like multiple pages. But I recently relized that then the page could not be posted as a link for others to see. Anyway, thanks again!

The error reporting fixed it, turns out I was directing it to the folder "Pixelize Pictures" when the folder was called "Pixelized Pictures". Thanks!

I hate to ask for help twice so close to eachother but... I'm working on a photo mosaic website that makes boxes, finds their average color and colors in each space it's boxes average color(eventually it will take picture with this average color and cover the boxes with them). However, I have been having troube. I'm trying to store all the color information using a txt document whihc lists each box's red, green and blue. Below is the code, however, I can not get fwrite to work, the variables are fine but when I check the text file I left for it, it will be empty. Can someone tell me why the fwrite isn't working? Everything else is.

What exactly do I put in as the old file though? I tried using the original path but it just saved the original file and no the edited one, so I tried $my_img an dall that came up on screen was the link.