WACS: Overview
Contents
Introduction
A lot of folks, probably mostly guys, like to collect adult imagery and
video clips. There is a lot of it available on the net, and in amongst the
multitude of subscription web sites, there are a number who offer
very fine quality, original content. If one visits a number of these
sites, one rapidly becomes used to seeing many of the same faces
featuring, often under different pseudonyms. Managing the information on
who these models are, their various attributes and characteristics, and
what sets you have featuring that model is a challenge significantly more
complex and specific than most photo management tools can provide.
Further few if any provide automatic download features to keep your
collection up-to-date with all the latest additions to the portfolios of
your favourite models.
WACS is a package that provides most of the features of the best adult
web sites to help you organise, manage, update and access such a collection
on your own (server) computer or possibly a remote server.
WACS provides a significant number of web-page creating programs that
come together to build the infrastructure of your own private adult web
site in which to house your personal collection complete with catalogues,
indexes, updates and search facilities.
Where To Begin
WACS is a fairly sizeable package and builds on quite a significant number
of software packages, routines and libraries. Before starting on
your own installation, it's probably worth reviewing the user guide so you
have some feel for how it should look once operational.
Here are a few pointers to elsewhere in the WACS documentation:
- The User Guide - Probably a good starting
point for most people, unless you're already familiar with WACS and what
it can do.
- Installation - covers the installation
techniques and pre-requisites, and then leads to...
- Getting Started - once you have the
components all installed (or if someone else has done the installation for
you), this section discusses getting the first photosets added into the
WACS system.
- Configuration - part one of the
Digging Deeper section - this discusses the various components of the
system, how they interact, and how to use them from your own web pages
and applications. This is really technical reference for web developers
and others wishing to customise the WACS system.
- Philosophy - part one of the Technical
Reference section - this is mostly intended for those intending to add to
or extend the WACS code itself and includes API details, Database Schemas,
assumed legal values and the like.
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