I sure hope you all use the green picture pages when you're looking at my gallery. This new photo index utility is just for when you need to find a photo you've seen before but can't locate again or if you need to find a certain kind of photo quickly. It's not pretty, it's just functional. Like I say, if you just want to look at cast and brace pictures, use the green web pages; they give more information and are designed for user-friendliness.

This photo index utility has several options, most of which are functional. Select whichever option will help you to find what you are looking for.

There are three different types of index options:
• You can use a text-only listing of the photo database on PLASTER OF PARadISe. No photos are shown, but you can click to see either the thumbnail or full size photo. There are four different sort methods available in this format:
  • Alphabetical order according to the Filename.
  • Chronological order, as the photos were introduced on PLASTER OF PARadISe, newest photos first.
  • Location order. All photos are primarily sorted based upon which of the nineteen photo galleries they are assigned to, with a secondary sort by Filename.
  • Content order. Each type of cast is given an abbreviation, and the primary sort is based upon what type of cast is in the photo, with a secondary sort by Filename. If you are interested, please peruse the section at the bottom of this page to see the system of categorization I am proposing.
• The second type of index option is a page which contains all of the thumbnails on PLASTER OF PARadISe. There are over 500 thumbnails on this page, so it will be slow. No Filenames are displayed. The thumbnail photos are sorted first by the size of the thumbnail (largest first) for a better appearance. If two thumbnails are exactly the same size, a secondary Filename sort is used.
• The third type of index option has been used at PLASTER OF PARadISe for some time. I simply call up the http://www.world-net.net/users/caster/paradise/fullsize directory, and the world-net server automatically generates an index page on the fly.

Categorizing Photos By the Casts In Them

I'm not going to get too specific. A long leg cast and a long leg walking cast are essentially the same cast, for the purposes of PLASTER OF PARadISe.

Also, if there are two distinctively different casts in a photo, such a full leg cast and a full arm cast, I will list the photo twice, once under "LLC" and once under "LAC". It's easier than trying to come up with categories for every cast combination. In both appearances of the listing, all the casts would be listed, but in one case it would be "LLC & LAC". In the other instance it would be "LAC & LLC". If you're looking for a particular type of cast, it may well be irrelevant what other type of cast is being worn. The same policy applies if two people are in a photo, one in a LLC and the other in a LAC. It's still a photo of LLC and LAC, regardless of how they're spread out over the population.

There will be situations which will be difficult to fit into this system. I'll just do what I can, when I can.