Absolutely nothing to do with Health IT (unless maybe personal mental health through use of IT counts) but for those easing back into the work saddle at the end of holidays and for those who were interested in presentation of family/travel photos, I have come to the personal conclusion that there is nothing better than getting a little bit of your own webspace and doing it yourself.
The two rainy weekends in January which included really late nights saw me get a handle on WordPress and start to explore the interior workings of my favourite album creating software, JAlbum. I am sure that use of Coppermine or Gallery2 in the future would provide me more flexibility to have a 'shopping cart' to facilitate sale of photos and tighter integration into a website but JAlbum has so many skins contributed that it was marginally easier for me to start trying to teach myself the code by examining them and the forum participants were really nice. Also, there are heaps and heaps of themes available for WordPress. At this point though, still just a grins and giggles site to keep the world informed of what me and the dog are up to - www.janandjessie.net I looked at the popular free photo gallery sites and my general perceptions were that you would tend to 'get lost in the crowd', not much flexibility with style/skins/colours, annoying advertising on some, inability to upload large batches of photos at once unless installing their proprietary software, some even take the 'rights' to any photos posted on their site! Not to say these sites don't provide a quick and cheap service to displaying photos to distant friends and relatives but be sure to read the fine print (terms and conditions). If I can get something going in a couple of weekends then any of you lot can do it in an evening or less and I know some of you would even think it was 'fun'! Oh, and David G, you were right about uploading my development files from Xampp to host server; just did MySQL backup after replacing some paths in the relevant file and uploaded whole kit-and-kaboodle! Happy New Year of the Boar coming up (with an election year, let's hope it's not a bore) and I hope everyone has a fulfilling year. Regards, Jan _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
