I am really bad about uploading pictures to my website anymore. In the past, it has been because I have not been able to keep up with titling and putting comments on my photos in iPhoto, but at present I am essentially caught up with that. And yet I have not yet uploaded any to my website.
I have recently determined that this is because of how my online pictures are organized. It's all based on "collections", which are basically sets of pictures that are uploaded together. This made sense when my pictures were not managed by a database, since the pictures would have to be presented in a static HTML index page. But I would rather be able to upload pictures one at a time and have them available quickly on my website.
So I'm in the progress of changing my online picture presentation scheme to move away from collections. I'm thinking of transforming the collection idea into "keywords" and presenting the pictures primarily by date taken. This way, I can create a set of pictures with the same keyword (like "Glen Rose 2006") to be able to present them as a set, but also simply upload pictures with no keywords.
Look for those changes, and some new pictures, within a month or so.
Posted by Rob Reid at June 19, 2006 11:59 AM