Gallery Updates

• January 26th, 2009 • • computers, pottery •

I just completed a rather large gallery update for all of the pottery I’ve been painting at work!

http://pinkfrog.net/fractus/pottery.php

Gallery updates have been too slow in my opinion; I’m in a constant state if dissatisfaction at the ease of updates. Auto-updating galleries such as the kinds I can publish from Aperture are great, but I don’t like the way they have the inability to integrate into the look of the rest of my site. Granted, I’ve considered moving to a platform such as iWeb for all my publishing needs, but again, the versatility isn’t what I’d like.

It’s the same with public galleries such as DeviantArt and Flickr. They’re close to what I’d like, but not quite. My main problem with sites like those is exactly that; they’re on other servers. I don’t have direct control over where my images are located. However, I feel like my current galleries are still lacking; I really have no system set up to tag images with attributes, and the navigation is kind of clunky.

The problem is compounded with galleries I wish to set up that contain massive amounts of images that require updating on a regular basis. As as result, the DPCA Project and Epicycloid Gallery have been caught in a state of limbo for several years because I cannot come up with a satisfactory solution for their operation. Both of these endeavors are dependent on web galleries that can: 1) be updated on a regular basis, 2) provide an image-tagged navigation system, 3) provide a tree navigation system, 4) allow for the viewer to sort the gallery by item type, 5) allow for individual pages that can include a specific information set per image, and 6) be able to tap dance. Ok, fine, I’ll drop the tap dancing, but from all of the flow charts I’ve done, the others are needs I have not been able to meet in an image gallery I can construct myself. No doubt there are coders out there who could easily whip up such a system, but I’m not that sophisticated. My capabilities are limited to cobbling together JavaScript and PHP code chunks, and that’s about it.

Complaining and searching aside, I did manage to find an Automator script that helps me to make thumbnails (the bane of my existance) with the click of a button from Aperture. Hopefully, this will mean more regular updating in the galleries and the blog…

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1. Spencer! said,
   
   

   on January 29th, 2009 at 2:43 am

   I don’t know what scgraffito is, but it sure looks sweet! Like, gnarly sweet, not sugary sweet. Although, it looks sugary too, but yea. YEA! GJ

2. Olivia said,
   
   

   on January 29th, 2009 at 8:29 am

   @Spencer!

   Well I guess pulling “sgraffito” is kind of a hunt in the ol’ art vocabulary. Basically it’s scratching into the surface to reveal…ANOTHER SURFACE. Fancy Italian way of saying “scratch” I guess. Thanks though!

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