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Mathiau
5th of September 2006 (Tue), 02:32
well, after many years, i am trying to get a web site going, this is mainly for friends and family and such to post my pics.


www.mathiau.com (http://www.mathiau.com)

the page right now is html, but there is a flash version i want to try and get working if i can ever remember how to bloody use flash!!!, god is been like 8 years!

Anyways, just have the front page and some pics, currently going through 15,000 images back to 2001 to get what i want posted, resized (main image and thumbnails)

i plan to seperate the gallery, and ideally have 6 diff galleries, one gallery for each year so the pictures link will pull down to choose

2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001

so you dont have to load a 5billion MB flash file :D

So , the page is a work in progress, thing i want to add

1. direct link's below each pic so people can copy the link to show others if they want
2. Change the numbers in the photo album to just show the thumbnails instead of needed to hover over each number
3. Ability to comment on images
4. Fill in captions for most all pictures, not only with comments, but with camera info / iso / aperature et cetera details.
5. watermark on all images

Since i am using SlideShowPro as my gallery, it maybe hard to do #2 and #3, so going to have to get cracking on my flash and coding skills, which are basically non existant at this point.

Anyways, critique away as you see fit, i will post here as i update, right now i am just slowly working on trying to get the albums up for 2006 at least.

Mathiau
5th of September 2006 (Tue), 17:33
UPDATE 09.05 3:33pm

i moved the pictures to a page resembling the main page to keep some consistancy.

ccheever
6th of September 2006 (Wed), 10:13
nice site. Gotta love SSP!

FYI. There is an update for SSP so you can just show thumbnails instead of numbers. Go download it and check it out.

Check out my site to see what it will look like.

Pekka
6th of September 2006 (Wed), 12:07
The site is extremely slow and getting one gallery page takes several minutes, if it ever finishes.

Mathiau
6th of September 2006 (Wed), 21:48
mmm, wonder if my provider is being slow, i am down in costa rica on a T1 & a cable line, and even after clearing my cache it does not take more then.

testing on my cable line just now 1mb / 1mb it took 11 seconds for the mainpage to load, and then took 8 seconds for the pictures page to load. the server is hosted in the US.

What browser were you using? i am using IE 7 beta 3 here.

tlc
8th of September 2006 (Fri), 17:06
can i come live with you? your place is beautiful! i'm assuming of course that is wher eyou had your party? :lol:

nothing worked but one gallery.

Mathiau
8th of September 2006 (Fri), 20:58
lol, got a spare room :)

WHat browser were you using to check out the site?

right now i only have 2006 and 2005 pics up, only some, checking on some computers here and some friends all of the galleries seem to work currently, someone on dial up in the U.S tried it out as well, said it took about 20 seconds for the main paghe to load and 33 seconds for the first photo page to load.

Shall have to test out the site with firefox and opera ad stuff

Mathiau
11th of September 2006 (Mon), 12:07
added a bunch more pics for 2006 and 2005, need to work on the bio and info page and contact page and fix the border issue around the gallery.