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Gallery Update

I've been meaning to add some functionality to my gallery for months (years?) now, and I've finally added the first installment of the updates.

Minor, but pretty cool (and home-grown).



The new feature is the row of - currently five - images at the top of the page. Current image is in center, outlined in white. Go back one or two images; go ahead one or two images.

I've had previous/next links all the time, but it's nice to get deeper (back two/up two) and to tie them to images.

Load is a little heavier (I reference the thumbnails, but we still could be loading between 100k and 300k or so), since I pull in up to six images (five thumbs; one full), not counting the basic page image needs.

Four comments on this "improvement":

• This is the first baby-step in changes I want to the gallery.


• Maybe I'll have to roll it back. I'm not perfect.


• I was able to easily integrate this into a Perl CGI I wrote years ago. That - to me - is amazing.


• It took a bit to error-trap, check all instances for errors and so on. I've released it because I believe it stable. However, I've worked with so many programmers who would have put v1.0 into production because they did not test. Test, people... I caught some errors; so would you...

Hmmm...I already resize and thumbnail an uploaded image; I might have to "icon" it as well (the icons are currently 50x50 pixels; I think that's a good size).

Progress.