Blog - /Website

For some reason, Steve's website, which normally hosts my website, has been down for the past two weeks. I've decided to go back to using my Sourceforge webspace to host this site for the time being. Come on Steve, come back from wherever you are!

In the meantime, I've switched completely over to using Emacs and its Emacs Wiki: Emacs Wiki Mode to generate this website (with the exception of the My works section, but it is still functional). I'm pretty happy with the results so far. You'll notice that the background is a nice light gray, a uniform footer is on every page, and the header text is nicely highlighted, IMHO. On every major page, you can see the source code by clicking on the Source link at the bottom of each page.

The Pictures part of my site has been completely updated. I'm using a different program called GThumb to generate my photo albums, which is explained on the Pictures page. It isn't a perfect method. I was able to hack up a theme that will hold me over for now, but I'd really like to see the following:

• Smarter guessing of what directory I want to output the album to
• A field in the Web Gallery section that allows one to specify the page "above" the current web album.
• Ability to make commandline scripts to update the galleries
• Put the Thumbnail Caption and Image Caption buttons on the Web Gallery form, not the Theme subform
• Be smart about whether to include the caption or the filename in the album page; if the caption exists, show it, otherwise show the filename
• Don't force me to highlight every single picture in the directory before allowing me to generate an album; it should be assumed that if no files are selected, publish the current directory

For the moment, I'm not uploading the original images to Sourceforge since I'm running out of time here at my Dad's house. You should be able to see most of the pics; only ones that are small will not be viewable, since GThumb tries to be "smart" about generating previews for pictures that are small enough already. In addition, the Up links on the Pictures page do not work thanks to a small oversight. For now, just click on the Back button of your browser to get back to where you need to go.