progress marches on
July 21st, 2005 by herichon
Well, the bad news is another sleepless night. Definitely having trouble sleeping lately.
The good news is that these last couple of nights have been relatively productive. When you get a minute, check out the integrated image gallery (powered by Gallery2 with the WPG2 plugin). There’s a couple of ways to get to it – click the Gallery link in the header to get to a full-screen gallery browser, or – even sexier – click the “photo album” icon in the sidebar on the right to see the gallery integrated with the rest of the journal layout.
A couple of notes on this. (Be warned, geekiness ahead.) First of all, if you’re using IE, you may notice that the sidebar doesn’t want to sit next to the integrated gallery. This is a Known Issue and the best workaround at the moment is – wait for it – move to a better browser, duh. Actually I will see about tweaking this further, but as it works more or less okay in real browsers, don’t hold your breath.
You might also see some comments on certain of these images and wonder how you can roll your own. For some reason the commenting system is really convoluted in the current iteration of WPG2, but basically, you can’t add comments from the full-size view of the images – ie, where you see the comments. At least not at the moment. To add a comment, back up one bread crumb (to the “Random Images” level, where you see the thumbnails) and select “Add comment” from the drop-down menu beneath the image in question. (If you don’t see the drop-down menu, switch to detail view in the lower right corner, but if you’re on summary view, you didn’t see any comments anyhow so this entire paragraph is moot.)
Yes, I know, the whole comment system is really kludgy at the moment, but it’s a work in progress, not only here but also with the folks who are coding the plugin. (Gallery2 itself is still in late beta for that matter.) I’ll continue poking at it so keep an eye out for improvements.
As for the images themselves, they are the same group that you’ve been seeing randomly at the top of this page. (Same size and everything, though I may be adding full-size versions later for some of the ones I cropped heavily.) I’ve added a few more and have quite a lot to add still, but for the moment I’m going to concentrate on renaming and tagging and adding snarky comments (particularly to the pictures of Dawn). Once I get those all modded up, keep an eye out for another couple hundred images.
Yawn. Okay, now to give this sleep thing another shot.