May 2, 2006
I am vexed I tell you!
I have been looking for software to produce a web gallery. A table of thumbnails and when you click a thumbnail, you go to a page with the full-size image and also a "back -- home -- next" selection bar.
There are some packages that do this but there is either a lot of funky javascript that goes along with each image or the HTML is an unreadable plate of spaghetti. A lot of galleries also do cutesy special effects -- drop shadows, funky backgrounds, music, etc...
I am looking for something as simple as can be made -- I have clients on dial-up and all the extra baggage makes their viewing experience less than optimal.
I ran into a gallery that someone had made and it looked good. I viewed the source code and saw perfectly clean HTML code. I sent them an email asking what application they used and they replied that it was iPhoto on their (expletive deleted) MAC...
Shame on you Apple -- you are not supposed to get things
this (expletive deleted)
right!
I was expecting some Linux application or a PERL script or something but not (expletive deleted) iPhoto. Curses...
Sitting here fulminating. Vexed I tell you!
Posted by DaveH at May 2, 2006 10:08 PM
Do you ever use a wrench to pound in a nail? The right tool makes the job go right even if that tool is made in China or made by (expletive deleted) Apple!
Greg Jacobs - Mac user since 1984 and Microsoft shareholder since 1987.
You could do a simple gallery in HTML using iframes. Nothing funky to it. But it doesn't resize the frame for different size images, which is a bummer. But if all the images are the same size, it works decently well.
Dialup clients who want to view images on the Internet? Is it the Washington State Masochists Association?
;^)