Meghan’s Gallery

May 18, 2008

Updated the site as an exuse to avoid the evil daystar

Filed under: Site — Meghan @ 5:07 pm

It’s like someone flipped a switch somewhere. We’ve had nice, pleasant weather for weeks, ranging from about 50F to 70F, sometimes sunny and sometimes cloudy. Then suddenly the last two days were hot and sunny and almost 90F! That is WAAY too warm for me, so I spent the weekend enjoying my air-conditioned house and working on this site. Most of the photos from the old site have been moved over, although some of them will need to be replaced because they are missing EXIF info or are only 800×600 due to the way iWeb used to crop photos. I also spent way too many hours figuring how to edit the PHP pages that ZenPhoto uses to display albums and images. I certainly cheated in that regard, as I found a theme by Nils Windisch that did most of what I wanted, then copied over the rest of the features from the original ZenPhoto theme. Nobody ever accused me of being a coder. :) Which is why you’ll notice that some of the margins aren’t quite right, and there are some funny gaps between different sections on a page. Those settings are all buried in the style sheets that the theme uses to pick the colors, etc, and I’m working on fixing them. But since I don’t really know what I’m doing, it takes about 3 times as long as it would for someone who could actually write style sheets.

So, enjoy the site, wander through the albums that look interesting, and try to ignore the occasional layout hiccup. Meanwhile, I’m going to go figure out how to make a link back to the main page work from within the ZenPhoto gallery. Maybe. Or maybe I’ll just go watch a movie.

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