09 Aug 2004 | ar said...

Couloir out does itself every time. Slow down Scott and let us soak up the goodness before moving on to version 4.

09 Aug 2004 | Don Schenck said...

Wow!

09 Aug 2004 | Steve from Denver, now in FLA said...

God, do I miss Colorado...FLA just doesn't have it for me...

09 Aug 2004 | ML said...

Nice! Scott, how did you do the more streamlimed workflow behind it (Step 1: Create Folder, Step 2: Drop Photos into Folder, Step 3: Upload)?

09 Aug 2004 | Ben Saunders said...

Gorgeous site, Scott.

(FYI the Nikon 8008 link on the About page seems to be broken)

09 Aug 2004 | SU said...

Thanks for the comments so far. ML, to your question, here's a bit more detail on the backend:

The 2003 version of the site used a MySQL database with PHP pulling out the appropriate text and thumbnails for each gallery. Because I didn't have enough time to work on it, that version of the site never had a proper administration tool -- I was stuck using PHPMyAdmin for updates, which was adequate but slow.

So when it came time to redesign, I created a new PHP class that looks into a folder called "ph" for subfolders that follow a particular naming convention. For example, the latest gallery on Audubon-Toll lives in a folder called "2004 - 2 - Audubon to Toll Traverse". That designates the gallery as #3 for 2004 (numbering starts at 0) and gives it the name you see on the site. The PHP class then looks inside the folder for any files with the extension .jpg, .png, or .gif and puts them into an array for display. It also looks for a file with the extension .php and, if present, displays that as the caption/description information (that data is stored in arrays in the "caption.php" file).

So to update the site now, I just create the images in Photoshop (because cropping can't be automated very easily if you want it to look a certain way), drop them into the properly-named folder, and upload the whole folder to the server. The PHP scripting takes care of the rest, building the navigation and photo display.

I've definitely sacrificed centralized management for speed, but it's very easy to use the Finder to manage my site.

09 Aug 2004 | SU said...

Ben, thanks for catching the Nikon link. Your adventures make my trail runs and climbs look like a casual Sunday afternoon sipping tea by the pool! Best of luck in all your future expeditions.

13 Aug 2004 | Jose Rui Fernandes said...

You make me want to start climbing mountains. I hope it's not to late...
The Ben Saunders adventures are a "little" too extreme for me, but sure is fascinating stuff.

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