Thursday, February 20, 2003

Photo WEB Blogs

Here’s some news: I’m running a ‘community’ photo post for Oxford. Part of the bid to be European Capital of Culture!

I have deliberated on this area for a while now, checking out various pieces of software and experimenting with pMachine. I have now opted for ‘PhotoPost’, a set of PHPscripts running with mySQL database. After some hacking to get it to look OK (I’m still keen to make a few other changes) I have now gone live, Check it out.

What is ‘PhotoPost’?

furthermore...

I don't like the word BLOG; I prefer the more traditional 'Journal', but, whatever, if you post some news up hourly or monthly, you'll probably want to post up some images eventually. It may be that you want to incorporate images into your text. I'm doing this now regularly at chrisjennings.net. You may not want to take up too much space with your image in the day's story, so maybe a 'thumbnail' will do. However, sometimes it's a shame not to show off your digital camera's megapixels! So what would be a good way to get a larger version available on the click of the mouse? I have a 'photo journey' running here: Megalithic Journey and I am very happy with that arrangement, again, achieved with pMachine. There are, it seems, two kinds of photo log - personal photo weblogs/journals and community sites, where lots of people can post images. The community sites are run along the same basis as discussion forums. You need to register and use your login and password before you can post images.The administrator can set privilages up and configure the system to accept limited sizes of image etc. If you live in Oxford or have visited Oxford and you want to post any images up there, I would be delighted to host them there (subject to approval of course!). Just go to iOxford. InspiresOxford has only just started and I have 'seeded' it with images of my own. PhotopPost is the software I have used with some hacking of my own. It's available here.