Note: As described below, I've added info and a couple of additional images to
my Monarchs gallery.
<http://galleries.moosemystic.net/MooseFoto/index.php?gallery=Travel/NorthEast_2010/Coastal%20Maine/Monarchs>
On 12/23/2010 3:32 PM, Ken Norton wrote:
> The Zone-10 website is pretty much locked into a "format" or a general
> design. In this case, it's two columns, with the menu, links and
> advertisements in the left column and the content in the larger right-hand
> column. This uniformity of design is limiting, yet is the layout I choose to
> use as all pages are identical in layout and
> operation. . .
Something standardized seems necessary for that sort of site.
> Preloading images is an interesting idea. I know how to do it with Flash, but
> that train has left the station. At this point, everything has to be
> iSteveJobs compliant so Flash is history. Even Java scripts have to be
> carefully done as so much of that is hard-filtered by the brousers.
Can you just fall back on plain vanilla HTML for that? All you need to do, as I
mentioned, is load it invisibly.
> One thing about Gallery 2, is that you could actually build a very effective
> photography website with just that system. But, now we're talking about
> SmugMug all over again. You can also build a decent website with that and
> there is little administration to worry about.
I just relearned why I like the simplicity of Singapore for its limited limited
purpose of displaying image galleries.
To post the Monarch butterfly shots, all I had to do was use FTP (FileZilla -
free - good) to create a new sub-directory
and copy the image files over. A few moments and I have a fully functional
sub-gallery.
Then I wanted to name the images, include copyright, location and other
information. I could do that using the admin
interface, but it's annoyingly slow to label each image separately, even
though, at least in Firefox, the down arrow may
be used to reenter repeating fields.
But Singapore is intentionally simple. If you don't make any changes to a
directory, it simply displays the images. If
you change just one thing in admin, it writes out the data for all images in a
CSV file. I download that, open in a
spreadsheet, fill in the blanks and copy it back to the server.
Location, date, copyright, etc. are simple cell copy operations, done in
seconds. Columns that are filled in are
displayed, blank ones not. The one glaring weakness of the admin interface is
the inability, at least that I can find,
to reorder images. A snap in the spreadsheet. I just add a column, put order
numbers in it, sort, and delete the column.
It also looks to me like it would be fairly easy to change the PHP code to add
or rename fields in the CSV file and/or
how they are displayed.
Moose
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