[GreenKeys] off-topic -- some camera pics, and web design photo-album question

[Randy or Sherry Guttery]

gil smith wrote:

> So a web question comes to mind:  is there some simple HTML code (or 
> maybe it needs java or something) which will display clickable 
> thumbnails of any number of pics dropped into a folder?  

Most of us use PHP for such, there are other ways, of course - but PHP 
is particularly well suited to tasks such as this (and guest books, 
etc.). The other great thing about PHP is the huge amount of available 
libraries - many of which are free.

Do a google on:  PHP slideshow

and you'll see what I mean.  Most hosts & servers (esp. Apache) have PHP 
installed and available.



> I am thinking 
> of something generic, which does not need to be edited at all (except 
> maybe to define the thumbnail size) -- create a folder on the web 
> server, drop in the magic code, and drop in any number of pics.  Then 
> when you go to that web folder, it displays an album of thumbnails, 
> which can be clicked to show the full-size images.  Would be even better 
> if you could add a caption (eg:  same filename as the photo with a .txt 
> extension), and it would display this below or beside the thumbnail.

I'm not aware of one right off that has "captions" ability - but it 
certainly could be added to almost any of the scripts available.


> And I have never found a wysiwyg web editor that was worth a crap. 

I prefer GoLive - as I allows me to quickly throw elements together 
without tedious coding.  However - it also support code level 
programming when something must be tweaked just so. GoLive's global 
search and replace is handy when the same change needs to be made in 
several dozen or hundreds of pages (files) - nice to make a change once 
and have it propagated through a whole list of pages- without having to 
open / change / save each one.

> They 
> all seem to require that you build and maintain the web site in their 
> proprietary format, the import capabilities are usually limited, and 
> they all seem to rely heavily on the very latest browser features (which 
> not everyone has), scripting capabilities, microsoft-specific 
> extensions, or awful flash. 

While GoLive is of course "literate" in these bells and whistles 
"add-ons"  - it does ALL of it's page layout in HTML.

> Am I the only one in the world who would like to add a sentence or two 
> beside their pictures? 

No - but I prefer to use full-sized pictures - just a lot of them on a 
page - one after the another - complete with story line in between.


Again - there are PHP slideshows, etc. that do (almost) all of this 
(again I'm not aware of a caption script - but certainly - there could 
be one "out there".   Check code forge, and similar code library sites.

best regards...
-- 
randy guttery

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