Last night I sat down at my computer after work and decided it was time to give the photo gallery on Rogue a makeover. I decided to download the latest Coppermine and installed it on Rogue. Coppermine has some nice batch processing stuff that helped a lot. I created 74 albums to match the 74 album entries I had in the old custom-made gallery. Copied all the old JPGs over to the album directory for Coppermine, then spent a good couple of hours running Coppermine's batch file add feature for each of the 74 albums. I like the results a lot.
Check out the difference comparing my old custom pages; which I never seemed to have time to improve the way I wanted, to the new Coppermine gallery.
With my old pages, I basically had a script that would go through and resize, watermark, and thumbnail a directory of photos, in addition to creating an XML file with info like the file name, EXIF data, and blank title/description fields that I could edit as I wanted. I would then manually add an entry to an XML file that was read by the album page. That script won't completely go away because I will want to keep the fullsized images at around 1024x768, and watermark them. The only difference is that now instead of manually adding entries to the album XML, I can create an album in Coppermine and batch add them.
Check out the difference comparing my old custom pages; which I never seemed to have time to improve the way I wanted, to the new Coppermine gallery.
With my old pages, I basically had a script that would go through and resize, watermark, and thumbnail a directory of photos, in addition to creating an XML file with info like the file name, EXIF data, and blank title/description fields that I could edit as I wanted. I would then manually add an entry to an XML file that was read by the album page. That script won't completely go away because I will want to keep the fullsized images at around 1024x768, and watermark them. The only difference is that now instead of manually adding entries to the album XML, I can create an album in Coppermine and batch add them.