October 03, 2003
Gallery Coming Online--Slowly
Well, slowly but surely I am bringing a Gallery online. Right now the only album in place is one of Johann. (I am sure there are no objections to that.) Right now it is all open access, in other words there is no need to log in to the gallery to be able to see all of it.
This will change, but I am not sure exactly how, I want to make it easy for those I want to be able to have access, but enough of a security system to prevent general browsing of some albums by just anyone (not to mention image robots.) I am not satisfied that having each user sign up for a log-in to view images only is very useable, but that is the easiest way that I know to lock out certain albums from the general public. When I lock out general public from certain albums then I can put the super-high resolution version of some of the images online for better printing and print ordering. Until then though, I have no desire for people to be downloading a 2 megabyte file just to look at it, especially if they don’t know Johann or us. Oh, and if anyone wants or needs high-resolution versions of any of the images let me know. Leave your comments in the gallery also. We would love to hear them!
I will be re-styling the entire web site over the next week or two also, I have been doing some restyling as I have been figuring out MT for use as a CMS for a clients site. All of this has been done on my laptop, when I have a touch of time (and the client site is done), I will clean those up and move them online. I will integrate the gallery look into the main site look and feel as well.