[Deptheads] Photo Albums

[t.aldrich at comcast.net]

Hi all,

Thanks to a large donation of some really cool pictures of miniatures events (and 6 non-mini related), we now actually have identifiable images for cons going back to Orccon 2004.  

There was a side discussion at the meeting about the photos on the web site, and current lack of any displayed for this year. I'm sorry, but my main excuse was the time involved in getting images on my machine (not always as easy as it should be) and generating the thumbs, since my machine has the auto thumb generating software on it.

The result of this discussion was me looking into album generation code for our site. One of the biggest concerns was embedding the code in our non-standard site generation code. To this end, I didn't go with one of the more robust options. However, we now have album generating code with auto thumb generation and the ability for you to upload images to our albums. I'll work on adding more features as time permits, like uploading an entire directory.

That said, I'd like you all to go check it out and see if there are any other ways to improve it.

I am working on fixing the 1, 2, 3,... out of order thing. It requires adding a 0 before each single digit number to get the sorting order right. Keep this in mind if you need to number things higher than 9. I should have known better.

The currently live photos (i.e. Orccon and Gateway 2007, etc) are not in this setup yet, because it would break the live pages.

Even though this is from the live site, there is no link to it yet.
http://www.strategicon.net/index.php?goto=phAlbum

The dev site is where the upload function is available. This does not require you to log into the strategicon login yet, so please don't share the password.
http://www.strategicon.net/~stratcon/index.php?goto=phAlbum
username: stratcon
password: pictures

Enjoy,

Tanya