Comments on: Back from vacation

By: Tristan

Tristan — Sat, 13 Aug 2005 15:51:08 +0000

That’s the beauty of zenphoto It can be a completely different front-end to the same system.

And sure, I’ll help. I’d love to see some great interactive themes like that.

By: khaled

khaled — Sat, 13 Aug 2005 14:31:56 +0000

That’s it, when you release it I’ll try (with a little help for sure)to get that theme in there, it’ll be a different kind of gallery, but one that will expand the use of zen photo, I think :).

By: Tristan

Tristan — Fri, 12 Aug 2005 17:06:40 +0000

Sounds like something someone else can do when they have more time… I’m gonna leave it at that and focus on getting the core done. Thank you Ben for your generosity though; it’s very much appreciated and I hope someone eventually does make a theme based on your work.

By: khaled

khaled — Fri, 12 Aug 2005 12:23:27 +0000

Fantastic news. I love it when a plan comes together. getting some ajax to preload stuff in would be completely awesome, that would be a fantastic feature item, and having two themes from the outgo again would be another major plus for the program.

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 12 Aug 2005 10:46:15 +0000

Tristan et al - I’ve released the code used to make my gallery, so if you want to take any/all of it to add as a theme to your software, feel free.

By: Tristan

Tristan — Fri, 12 Aug 2005 05:37:40 +0000

Derek - Thanks! That was actually on the list already, or if not then at least on the one in my head. Plogger has this feature standard, so I’ll take a look at how it’s done there.

By: Derek

Derek — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 17:19:03 +0000

Ok, I just thought of a possible feature. I’m sure it could be accomplished with an extension, and I’m not sure it’s use would be widespread enough to merit inclusion in the base application. Nonetheless, I’ll throw it out there…

Many of use our websites to display photos to family and friends. Many of our friends want copies for themselves. With most photo albums, your friends have to go through and save every photo in an album. What if they could just download a zip file of the entire album?

If a file named “album.zip” existed in the album directory, then a download link would be made available. It’s up to the content publisher to ensure that the zip file contains all of the images.

Again, easily done in an extension, I’m sure, but I wanted to throw it out there while it was fresh in my mind.

By: Tristan

Tristan — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 15:11:47 +0000

Khaled - That’s all possible within themes, I promise. You could make a theme that uses AJAX to get the next image instead of reloading the page… very possible.

Plugins are a thought, but for other things like comment text handling (textile, etc), stats, ratings, and maybe (if you’re lucky) image processing. Navigation and design tricks are best done in the theme.

By: khaled

khaled — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 12:31:14 +0000

Hey Tristan, how hard would it be to get navigation and tricks like this incorporated?

http://gallery.beseku.com/1/

Rather than just themes you could also provide a section that you add other things in there like navigation, loading stuff etc.

By: Tristan

Tristan — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 06:20:17 +0000

Jerome - Yes, Yosemite is my second home.

I am delighted to hear that you like where the project is going. I tried exactly what you did — installing and uninstalling several album programs — and after settling on Photostack but wanting more, decided to start something new and better. I hope it ends up being helpful to you and everyone else.

Like I said, I’ll have something soon.