Photo Albums – Work in Progress

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A multiple file upload tool and photo album viewer being tested. You can read more below, or just try out the Photo Album page by clicking the title above.

One capability this website has not had was a method to have users upload many photos at one time. Some people have emailed me images, burned me CD’s, etc, but these were not very convenient. Additionally, once I have the images, it’s not trivial to create a way to display them and upload them to the web server. I have looked numerous possible solutions and spent a significant amount of time evaluating and testing them. For various reasons, none seemed acceptable as a total solution.

I did find some things to make my life a little easier. Picasa is a program that Google has available that will take photos in an album and output them as web pages. Still, someone has to get the photos to me first.

I have avoided trying to create something on my own, mostly because I don’t really know what I’m doing. But other people do, and they often freely share their stuff on the internet. With some properly crafted searches, I am often able to find someone who has done something similar to what I’m looking for. It may be only a little part, but I have been able to take these pieces and adapt them to what I need, albeit after pounding my head on the desk a few times.

So as it is with this project. I have the major pieces in place. It still needs some improvement and refinement, but it’s a start. I expect to be working on this in the near future. I have done some uploading myself, now I have a few people who I hope will try it and see how it goes.