Kyrgyzstan Pictures
I got my first Kyrgyzstan Image Gallery to work. It is quite straightforward. At last I can get rid of the ugly tables and let CSS and the browser do the work.
I still need to understand how to put captions under the images and under the thumbnails. Also, the pictures (most are scanned with my new Minolta slide scanner) do not have a consistent size. I need to write GraphicConverter scripts to do this automatically.
Jan 3, 02:44 AM | Web-site-design |
Web site design
Things used to be so simple: you got FrontPage or Dreamweaver, modified an existing table-based template, added your text with the editor, and your site was up and running. Of course it was ugly and difficult to maintain.
I quickly moved away from FrontPage but at the time there were no good free CMS.
I tried making my own, that used Python, but it was not very good. I tried Zope, and even put a few pages, but I never understood how it works and I gave up.
Then around 2003 I found SPIP, a French CMS that worked, and converted the site. I did not put any new content for a while, but recently I updated it to the newest version, which made the whole site go blank. Time to look for a new system. I never really liked SPIP anyway. It has a strange syntax, that uses French words (“boucle” instead of “loop” etc.). Also, even if it stores its content in MySql, the templates (“skeletons”) are not in the database, and need to be updated via FTP.
So after a quick search, and much comparison (Mambo, Xoops, Drupal, WordPress, MovableType, etc.) I decided to install Textpattern. So far I am happy. Installation was very easy, I like the user interface and it looks like it is quite extensible. The next steps will be:
- to install an image gallery
- to only display links of a given category
- to improve the overall appearance, now somewhat bland
Dec 24, 09:16 AM | Web-site-design |