New Photo Albums
Today I finished working out the kinks in my new photo album workflow. The result: all of my photo sets since I moved to Corvallis are now available on the site’s Photography section. I’m keeping the Flickr site for my best photography, but I’ve had all of these images sitting in Lightroom that I suspect friends would love copies of, so now they’re available.
For the curious, I do all of my photo editing in Adobe Lightroom (and occasionally Photoshop). Using a heavily-modified version of the TTG Shadowbox Gallery Template, I export each album and upload the static HTML and image files to my server. Nothing terribly exciting there, but now it gets interesting. I wanted to have an index page that automatically shows all of my galleries, displaying the most recent first. TTG supplies an XML AutoIndex module that does nearly everything I want, so I integrated that as my index page and hacked the PHP scripts to include better date and description information. Finally, I wanted to provide an RSS feed of my photo albums, so people won’t need to constantly visit my website if they’re looking for new photos. A quick modification to the XML AutoIndex script did the trick, so now you can subscribe to an Atom feed of my photo albums!
Everything seems to be working fine for my on Firefox and Safari. If anyone notices problems with the photo albums or feed, please let me know.
