Gallery.IzzyPants.com
Isabelle’s website has been revised, and is now powered by G2, software that will make managing the image archive much simpler. Currently, when new pictures were uploaded, it went as follows:
- Copy image from camera (or other source)
- Execute hashconvert.pl, a simple script to convert filenames into their MD5 Hash value (this helps prevent duplicate files, and ensures a unique filename for every image).
- Execute mkthumbs.sh, which generates thumbnails, moves them into /reduced/, and creates a symbolic link from t_OriginalHash.jpg to /reduced/ThumbnailHash.jpg.
- Either write the HTML to add the image to the gallery by hand, or enter the filename and caption data into a locally-stored MySQL database, and generate the equivalent HTML with ipg.php (a script designed to do this).
- Append this code to index.html
- Execute publish.sh, which syncs the local copy of the site with the live one.
This process has been simplified by the new engine. It is now:
- Copy image from camera (or other source)
- Navigate to http://gallery.izzypants.com.
- Click ‘Add Image’, and select the file to upload.
- Type in a caption, and press submit.
- The rest of the work is done automagically.
This means less effort to produce the same end result.
