Upon displaying photos on the interweb
I've been thinking a little. I used to have a system for sorting my photographs, it involved seperating out my photos into collections and using JAlbum to create a very pretty gallery of thumbnails for each which were then linked from my main page.
For about about two years this has suited me quite well, but it's starting to get noticeably dated and useless and I'm pondering a replacement.
My problem is that I want to have two sets of galleries using the same picture files. If I was writing the raw html this wouldn't be a problem other than I want to catalouge several hundred images, create thumbnails and make it all presentable, preferably with some of the EXIM data diplayed too.
The two sets of data stem from my current problem, where I have both collections of my plant photos, my insect photos and such form various dates, but also recent folders where I've put my new photos to display them and say, "look! new photos!". I want to have themed collections as part of a portfolio type whatsit, but also galleries organised by date, ideally I'd like to keep to my 100Mg of free webspace too.
This should be quite simple to set up in theory, a single folder of images and thumbnails and a set of html pages using them as slides and in a gallery (ok so I could use php or somesuch but I disapprove of scripts when it can be done just as well without).
The upshot of this is that I'm pondering if such a thing can be written in Java or something, or even if it exists already. Otherwise can anyone suggest how hard it may prove to code this and anything I should be careful of while doing so? (I'd be learning Java at the same time as writing it, a bit of a learning project you might say)
(also, please bear in mind it's going to take me months to get around to writing so don't anyone rely on me to write this or anything)
For about about two years this has suited me quite well, but it's starting to get noticeably dated and useless and I'm pondering a replacement.
My problem is that I want to have two sets of galleries using the same picture files. If I was writing the raw html this wouldn't be a problem other than I want to catalouge several hundred images, create thumbnails and make it all presentable, preferably with some of the EXIM data diplayed too.
The two sets of data stem from my current problem, where I have both collections of my plant photos, my insect photos and such form various dates, but also recent folders where I've put my new photos to display them and say, "look! new photos!". I want to have themed collections as part of a portfolio type whatsit, but also galleries organised by date, ideally I'd like to keep to my 100Mg of free webspace too.
This should be quite simple to set up in theory, a single folder of images and thumbnails and a set of html pages using them as slides and in a gallery (ok so I could use php or somesuch but I disapprove of scripts when it can be done just as well without).
The upshot of this is that I'm pondering if such a thing can be written in Java or something, or even if it exists already. Otherwise can anyone suggest how hard it may prove to code this and anything I should be careful of while doing so? (I'd be learning Java at the same time as writing it, a bit of a learning project you might say)
(also, please bear in mind it's going to take me months to get around to writing so don't anyone rely on me to write this or anything)