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November 27, 2005

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by fluffy at 6:13 PM
Seeing as how I went and made my site easier to manage, I decided to get around to something I'd been putting off: posting my photography.

Just recent stuff for now; when I go back to my parents' house for the holidays I'll try to remember to get all my negatives from when I was in high school.

Incidentally, iPhoto is wonderful. Its web export sucks, though. For now I have a kludgy mechanism to easily convert iPhoto's web export stuff to a serviceable MT entry, though it doesn't preserve titles. I suppose I could do something a bit fancier later but for now, this will have to do.

Also I'd really like to figure out where the stupid gap at the bottom of the view pages is coming from. My stylesheet should be filling that in with #content .content's background and border, but at least in Safari it's not. Oops, turns out it's because of the <P> kludge I was using. Whee.

Comments

#6810 11/27/2005 07:27 pm
Oooooh, someone shops at Ikea. Very Happy

I went for the blue ones too.
#6811 11/27/2005 07:31 pm
I bought those tealight holders at Ikea, yes. I wouldn't say I shop there, though. Just that I've shopped there.
#6813 11/29/2005 09:23 am
I don't think is is quite what you're looking for, but you might look into Photon for iPhoto/MT integration. On the other hand, you seem to have it covered pretty well.
#6814 11/29/2005 11:38 am
That looks like it could still be pretty useful, though that one screenshot isn't too promising since it doesn't tell me how it handles formatting or whether it lets you re-upload an album or whatever. Butt I'll try it out, in any case. Thanks!
#6815 11/30/2005 12:43 am
Yeah, it didn't manage to work with my setup. It just kinda died while trying to upload the images, and it looked like it was doing a pretty assy way of uploading them to begin with, just using the original filename and shoving them all into a single directory. Which I guess makes for a better permalink than nothing at all, though, which would be useful if I decide to give people the option of buying prints (which of course I was going to do). So maybe I'll change my export stuff to use the original filename, which actually makes one of the steps a bit easier, since I'm just destroying iPhoto's crappily-generated thumbnails anyway. (It does a nearest-neighbor filter! Ick!)

So now instead of using iPhoto's web export I'm just doing a normal file export, and have adapted my shell script to generate thumbnails, and it's doing it in a much more general way and will be better overall. I'll just use my camera's auto-generated filenames though, since that provides a permalink without providing Google juice (which is what seems to always lead to people ripping off my images for forum avatars and so on).