Andrew Gregory

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Web site photo galleries

Thursday, 25. September 2008, 07:02:22

As part of my research into consolidating my web sites, which has been concentrating on CMSs for the last couple of weeks, I've also been pondering how to manage my photo galleries.

This is a run-down the sort of features I've been thinking of:

Lightbox style (shade the main page, pop the photo on top).
Caption display.
Prev/next.
Display embedded EXIF data.
Link geocoded image with Google Maps.
No JS library dependencies.

None of the CMSs I've been looking at support such a gallery system. The closest were Quick.Cms and LightNEasy, both with standard Lightbox support. That is, lightbox style and caption support, but no prev/next or exif or geocoding support.

Well, today I've found the viewer that supports all the points I want: Lytebox, modified and extended. It's not perfect, as it has a dependency on ExifTool, and I would much rather use the built-in PHP EXIF/IPTC support. It looks like I only need to replace one function, though, so not much work there.

The real work will be integrating with whatever CMS I end up choosing, but this solves the largest piece of the puzzle.

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Just in time for a holiday

Sunday, 11. March 2007, 12:43:38

procrastination, ir, palm, photo ...

I'm forever putting things off. "Never do today that which you can put off until tomorrow!" My grandfather's probably rolling in his grave!

I bought a Palm Treo 650 smartphone a bit over 18 months ago. One of my first development efforts for it was going to be a port of an app I wrote for my EPOC handheld called PhotoBeamer. It lets me beam photos via IR from my digital camera (a Casio QV-3000EX/Ir) to my PDA.

Six days ago I started on the port. Why now? I'll soon be off on a two-week holiday and I thought it would be cool to blog about it as it happened - and be able to include better quality photos than the rubbish my Treo's onboard camera produces.

Anyway, today, with a whole two-and-a-bit days before my plane leaves, I finished my port! Say "hi" to PhotoBeamer for the Palm.

PS. I wish more cameras supported IrTran-P. Or Bluetooth (Basic Imaging Profile). Wireless options are virtually non-existent.

I know some cameras have Wifi, but my Treo doesn't! I'll be devastated when my Casio dies. It's a really nice camera.