WüdiVisions
Photography, Website 03/18/2004 |Since all the recent babbling about cameras (and the lack thereof) has had photography back on my brain recently (not to mention rebuilding my iPhoto library), I’ve spent the night resurrecting my WüdiVisions photoblog. It’s still a bit sparse at the moment — all of eight photos posted so far — but one has to start somewhere, right? It’ll grow over the coming days, weeks, and months, I’m sure. In the meantime, enjoy what little is there!
Design-wise, as that’s not one of my stronger points, I just went for slightly altering my current design for Eclecticism a bit to fit the format of a photoblog. I’m not sure I’m entirely happy with it, but it’ll do for the moment, and I wanted to get something up before another PROJECT fell into my lap.
I’m most proud of the archive pages — though if someone who can interpret CSS better than I can is able to figure out why the thumbnail icons on the category pages have underlines while the icons on the main archive page do not (which is how I’d prefer it), I’d really appreciate it. As far as I can tell, they should be displaying identically, but that doesn’t seem to be the case….
iTunes: “Brandenburg Concerto for Violin in G Major, No.4, BWV1049, III. Presto” by Rees, Jonathan/Scottish Ensemble from the album Bach: Brandenburg Concertos, Violin Concertos (1998, 5:03).
[See also: Revamping the Archives | Fine tuning | Just planning things out | Manly Pink #2 | More archive tweaks ]
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March 18th, 2004 at 3:48 pm
Wow, a piece of music I recognize!
And, speaking of music — Mr. Bowers, Kev’s jazz band teacher is coming in later today. Is there a reason you know of why I can’t access Hanscom Family Photos at the moment?
March 19th, 2004 at 7:54 pm
Michael -
Your archive page is really cool! How’d you do that? I am trying to do something like that… well actually trying to combine the archives from two blogs onto one central Archive page. I might end up doing something like that with my photo archives but I don’t know if I’d have room to break them down by category. Once again, really, really, impressive!
Joel
March 19th, 2004 at 8:32 pm
Joel — I’m about to disappear for the weekend, so full details may have to wait until later, but here’s a brief rundown:
Each post in the photoblog consists of three items. The image itself is placed in the “main entry” field, the description text is put in the “extended entry” field, and the icon (a hand-created 50px square crop of the image) goes in the “summary” field.
The Main Index and Individual Archive pages are then built using only the “main entry” and “extended entry” fields.
The Main Archive page is actually several unordered lists, with CSS rendering them inline and without bullets, and using only the icon from the “summary” field. Without CSS, the page would look something like…
Category
Category 2
…and so on. Because each post is classified under at least two categories (“color” or “black and white”, plus a more-specific category), each icon can show up in multiple rows.
Individual Category Archive pages will just collect icons as the archives grow. The inline unordered list will wrap at the end of the line, so eventually, there will just be a large grid of small icon-sized images for each category.
Hopefully that all made some small amount of sense…I’m glad you like the effect!