Web: Minor software announcement — after some time using HTMLThumbnail, album, and even WebMake to build photo galleries, I finally got peeved enough, and gave in to the temptation of ‘not invented here’. ;)
Presenting Uffizi, a CSS- and template-driven, themable perl script to generate photo galleries. Quoting the POD:
- it’s very self-contained, apart from dependencies on
Image::Sizeand the ImageMagickconvertcommand - fast, efficient incremental rebuilding
- generates full CSS-styled, templated and valid HTML
- every part of the generated HTML can be modified through the templates
- generates reasonably-sized images as well as thumbnails, with a link to the full-sized image
- secure — all pages are static HTML, so your webserver won’t get r00ted through a silly photo album script
I am, of course, using it on my own photo pages, and I’m very happy with it; it’s been a while since I had to hack it. (I need to get it to thumbnail MPEGs as well, but apart from that it’s teh nifty IMO.)