andersju
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I'm not satisfied with any of the currently available solutions for running a photo blog on your own server/web host account. In the past I've used Movable Type, Wordpress and Pixelpost, all modified and hacked up to some degree. I want something leaner and cleaner and tailored specifically for pictures; something that fellow photographers also can use without having to know a bit of programming to get good results. (Pixelpost doesn't fit the bill: the code is ugly and I have different ideas about the basic architecture.)
So, being a programmer, I decided to write my own. It will be written in PHP and released under a free license (GPL or BSD). One important concept will be static publishing as the default or only mode (like Movable Type's default mode - i.e., generating complete HTML pages of the whole site), instead of dynamic (like Wordpress or Pixelpost), for a variety of reasons. It will of course support templates (themes) and plugins.
At this stage I'm still just gathering ideas - and I'd love to hear yours! What would you like to see in photo blog software? What do you miss (if anything) in current solutions?
I'm going to spend quite a bit of time thinking about the presentation of photos and offer many styles/ways to do it out of the box. How do you like to see and browse photos on the web? What do you think is the ideal way to show photos (I would love to see links to good examples)? What gives the most impact? Etc. Bring it on! 🙂
So, being a programmer, I decided to write my own. It will be written in PHP and released under a free license (GPL or BSD). One important concept will be static publishing as the default or only mode (like Movable Type's default mode - i.e., generating complete HTML pages of the whole site), instead of dynamic (like Wordpress or Pixelpost), for a variety of reasons. It will of course support templates (themes) and plugins.
At this stage I'm still just gathering ideas - and I'd love to hear yours! What would you like to see in photo blog software? What do you miss (if anything) in current solutions?
I'm going to spend quite a bit of time thinking about the presentation of photos and offer many styles/ways to do it out of the box. How do you like to see and browse photos on the web? What do you think is the ideal way to show photos (I would love to see links to good examples)? What gives the most impact? Etc. Bring it on! 🙂