On 4/24/05, David Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I've finally gotten my new gallery into a state where it can go live. > > I haven't quite sorted out the top-level navigation yet so I have a few > URLs for you. > > The "intro" page: > http://www.bluemoon.net.nz/photo.php > > Only the "gallery" link on the above page works; it takes you here: > http://www.bluemoon.net.nz/photo/printsdb/browse.php > > And I haven't linked in the PAW listing yet (my mail program is likely > to wrap this): > http://www.bluemoon.net.nz/photo/printsdb/browse.php?mode=PAW > > You'll notice that the pictures are almost all the same between the two > galleries, because I haven't done much scanning since my last PAW. > Actually the PAW gallery is bigger because I've flagged some photos as > "not for sale" for various reasons. > > In PAW mode you get a different set of comments as well as equipment > details. You lot are a slightly more photo-savvy audience so I figured > you'd benefit from having more technical info available. > > The new PAW listing looks a bit like my old one, only this database is > capable of sorting by reverse date so I can split it into several pages > without it getting in the way. I feel sad making the old one obsolete > but it needed way too much work to give it the functionality I needed. > > Techy stuff: > I wrote this from scratch in PHP, using MySQL as the back-end. Most of > the work has gone into the back-end management interface so it's easy > for me to maintain, although the browse and view scripts themselves are > getting quite complicated. The database has several tables for various > info, but it's mostly for my convenience - you can't make a spelling > mistake with a drop-list. The photos themselves are not stored in the > database: they go in the filesystem stored under their code number. > > I started this project in January largely as a learning exercise, > running in parallel with a small database I'm doing for someone else > (who's effectively getting a lot of learning-process time for free). > Unfortunately my requirements grew and grew as I saw more and more > potential. The to-do list is still a mile long but it's all back-end > related and mostly unimportant (darn, I just thought of an important > one). I guess that's what software releases are all about - you never > really finish a piece of software. > > Please let me know if you find any bugs or broken links. It should > work in any browser but I can only guarantee Safari and IE 5.5 at this > stage. > > BTW please tell me whether you approve or disapprove of the coloured > borders around the bigger photos. I'm strongly considering making them > all black. I set up the colours in the database to help choose when > mounting/framing, with the help of a little Javascript. So using them > on the actual site is an experiment at the moment. I think some of the > colours don't work well with the page design though. > > Now it's bedtime... I might even do some scanning tomorrow and post a > new PAW :) > > Cheers, >
Lovely pix (many of which look familiar <g>). I ~really~ like the title page - very simple, elegant, classy design. Nice! cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
