September 01, 2004
Like they heard my prayers
Posted by bopuc at September 1, 2004 03:28 AM
daikini released "Photon" the other day. Not a week ago I was hunting around and trying various tools that would allow me to easily create photo galleries in Movable Type, in my inimitable picky style. The best I found was daikini's iPhotoToTypepad plugin for iPhoto, but it only worked with TypePad. All the others didn't allow me to select a category, or how I wanted the data uploaded i.e.: what goes in what fields... important for template hacking... (I don't want my links to images to stored int eh database, only the filenames. I want to "hard code" the <img> tags myself in the templates.
Photon does just that. Simple simple simple too. I pick my category (or create one!), one per "gallery", e.g.: Trip to Tokyo, and I set Filename > keywords, "Comments" > Entry Body, etc...
For $10.00USD, definitely worth it.
Bye bye Gallery with yer ridiculous ways. (Complex installation, customization, crappy comments, etc...)
Comments
Boris- can you point us to an example of a Photon gallery? I'd love to move away from Gallery but I'd like to see what it's like.
Posted by: gen at September 1, 2004 04:50 AM
It might have been worth the effort for the author to tell his users to look for Photon in the export field. I least I now have it figured out.
Posted by: andre at September 1, 2004 07:30 AM
I think gallery G2 will support custom categories and template fields.
I'm only using gallery because it's fast when serving up huge files.
Posted by: Steve at September 1, 2004 10:25 AM
My wife loves to tell a story she heard from her father while he was still living. He wanted to hire someone to worry for him - and the first thing they should worry about was how they would get paid!
Can I hire you to make my blog pay for you through advertising revenue? :-)
Posted by: David Weisman at September 4, 2004 07:39 PM