I have been getting back to nature recently and expanding my gardern. I started with planting some strawberry, carrot and cucumbers on Sunday afternoon. I then planted sunflowers, dwarf sunflowers, butter beans and rockmelon on Monday. Then the left over bean seeds on tuesday since I had run out of seedling pots.
Yesterday I was really excited when I noticed some small sprouts. Today I was even more astonished to find some of the sunflowers had really sprouted and the cucumbers have leaves. One of the rockmelon seeds has sprouted. The rest are still thinking about it.
I also decided yesterday that it was time to do a bit more work on my own website. The blog software (word press – I highly recommend it) has made my job of posting news a lot easier so I thought I would try out some photo galleries. At the moment I am working with PhpWebGallery. At the moment I am finding it interesting. It deals with files a lot differently then the other galleries I looked at for the guild wars blitzers website. Instead of uploading images through a backend form, you upload them to the site (including your own made thumbnails) and run a feature in the backend to match them up with the database. At first I found this odd but I like it at the moment. My current photo page (very lacking in content) has the thumbnails as interesting cropped pieces of the picture and I have decided I like the fact that I can easily use my own thumbnails. There is also a thumbnail generating feature in the backend but they don’t suggest you use it unless required. I would not recommend this for a group of people who want to upload photos to the site, but it does seem to fit what is required for myself to manage the photos. If you are looking at a group site gallery then I suggest coppermine. It has the ability to connect to a phpBB forum along with other php applications.
The gallery now lives at http://fun.koali.com.au/gallery
I will be customising it to look like the website and making a few alterations. My first plans is to make the front displayed image for a category randomised and also to add a description column for a photo.