It's going to take longer than I thought to rewire Rubberslug. Maybe two months or so of actual working days (which, if you know me, may translate into a Very Long Time).
However, there is pressing need to post non-cel type things. So this will do for now.
For the moment, I'll make available a half-complete early 2.0 prototype of the new engine. It displays photos in an album style. Eventually, everything on this site will run on a similar system that will allow you to nest catagories, move them around, automatically store different versions of uploaded images, etc.
The catch is that it's very incomplete. There's a complicated reason for that that I won't go into.
What you should know:
- it's been a while since i've touched this. I don't even remember what parts of it were finished.
- it will occasionally crash in really nasty ways. if all else fails, restart browser and log back in.
- you can add photos, nest catagories, and rearrange things
- you can't attach any types of descriptions or such to the photos you upload yet.
- album renaming not implemented in interface (it'll be called "photo album")
- arranging how you want the things to display not implemented. I hacked up a quick photo album viewer. You'll see it in your gallery.
- Album uploads will not flag as gallery updates. This is by design, naturally.
[color=#FF3300]**- This may be wiped at anytime. I will almost certainly delete all albums when I finish the new version of the engine. Do not store anything you care about in the album. It is for temporary storage only.** Realistically, everything should stay in here for at least the next month.[/color]
And if you managed to read to the bottom, congrats. You get a cookie:
http://www.rubberslug.com/member/album.aspx
A demo of what this looks like is here:
http://plastic.rubberslug.com/gallery/album.aspx
Have fun.
