Art Archive Sites?
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pasitheaSo... Still thinking about revamping my website. One thing I'm really having trouble with is this: How do I want to manage my art?
I have a lot of artwork that isn't furry, I have a little that's supposedly 'obscene', and I periodically want to go through and delete old stuff.
On the one hand, I have my current art management program that I wrote and it works decently except for the following:
Search, I think, is pretty easy to add.
So is allowing reference by file instead of record #.
I already handled the attractiveness of the UI and the URL length in another version which I wrote/tested, then never installed.
If I make the assumption I'll always upload from a Mac, I could automate generating thumbnails and simplify the collection set entry, but the collection set would still be limited. I guess I could change the collection to text instead of a binary operator which makes it unlimited but not much easier to manage without a front end to the uploader. Hmm...
Finally, the important one... # thumbnails per page. While I understand how to code this one, it's basically a big pain in the butt...
This gets me to the second option: Do I want to use my own archive at all? I could disperse my art across Velar and DeviantArt for example. This has a couple of pros and cons though.
Its a tough one. Overall I think its more practical to use other people's archives but it would break the overall look of my site slightly and it isn't quite as much fun. Also, I wouldn't know what service to use for publishing my non-furry stuff. Much of my art is hardly what you'd call 'Deviant' but it also isn't furry. Where should I put it and how hard is it to get an account there?
I have a lot of artwork that isn't furry, I have a little that's supposedly 'obscene', and I periodically want to go through and delete old stuff.
On the one hand, I have my current art management program that I wrote and it works decently except for the following:
- No search.
- Thumbnail mode displays entire category listing on single page.
- References tied to location in data file, not files themselves.
- Thumbnails not generated automatically.
- Collection set limited and difficult to use
- UI unattractive.
- Long URLs
Search, I think, is pretty easy to add.
So is allowing reference by file instead of record #.
I already handled the attractiveness of the UI and the URL length in another version which I wrote/tested, then never installed.
If I make the assumption I'll always upload from a Mac, I could automate generating thumbnails and simplify the collection set entry, but the collection set would still be limited. I guess I could change the collection to text instead of a binary operator which makes it unlimited but not much easier to manage without a front end to the uploader. Hmm...
Finally, the important one... # thumbnails per page. While I understand how to code this one, it's basically a big pain in the butt...
This gets me to the second option: Do I want to use my own archive at all? I could disperse my art across Velar and DeviantArt for example. This has a couple of pros and cons though.
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Its a tough one. Overall I think its more practical to use other people's archives but it would break the overall look of my site slightly and it isn't quite as much fun. Also, I wouldn't know what service to use for publishing my non-furry stuff. Much of my art is hardly what you'd call 'Deviant' but it also isn't furry. Where should I put it and how hard is it to get an account there?
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Date: 2004-04-13 11:21 pm (UTC)You can poke through my image gallery, to see if you like it.