28th Oct 2003
FlexiPhoto Preview Updated
I have updated the FlexiPhoto site
There is a new preview version there which fixes a lot of bugs, looks a lot nicer, and reflects some input I’ve had from outside my own little bubble.
If you would like to check it out, upload a few pictures (assume this is temporary), and so on, then email me and I’ll let you know where to find it.
I don’t want to open up access to the general public at this point, because I am not looking to get into the hosting business. I’m not keen on having random folks uploading random photos of randomly varying legality either. I’m just sharing where I am at this point, and would love to get any feedback.
I’m looking into how I will handle the source licensing for FlexiPhoto. My inclination is that I want to Open Source it. I also want to make an exceedingly comfortable living jet-setting all over the globe, doing custom FlexiPhoto installations and custom work for non-profits, museums and glitterati alike!
The truth is that there are a number of niche areas for FlexiPhoto (Photograher/Artist web sites, small scale photo stock agencies, photo catalogs, HR departments, ad infinitum …)
Something that would help in the near-term: I’d love to find someone that has strong CSS/Design chops, AND who has a handle on how to work in an LAMP environment (or Mac with MySQL/Apache). For the moment, this means being able to run a couple of shell commands, and be comfortable editing (X)HTML bits within a here document. I can pay for a few hours of help (mostly showing me things I am doing wrong/could do better) This would NOT fit a designer that is used to strictly GUI, static html + CSS.
Yo Jerry! Ya out there?
p.s. btw, yeah, FlexiPhoto is ambitious. Anything worth doing is. I wouldn’t have taken it on if I knew I couldn’t chip away at bits of functionality I want.
