Flickr-fu
People occasionally ask how I do phoDak; I wrote it a few days before the new year and do a few things manually to get pictures up (color correction and crop to the same size). Anyone wanting to put pictures online for other people should really use Flickr. The rub is that Flickr doesn't really look like a traditional photoblog.
For a while now I've been wanting to dig into Flickr's programmable side and this weekend I put together Flickr-fu as a beginning. Originally I had it as a single person "photoblog" but Flickr makes it easy to grab different people's pictures and the mini-aggregator thing just flowed.
Main screen:
Selected Flickr account:
Categories:
The categories are pretty straight forward: Friendly represents people I know, Killer Bees are people who are good with the camera, Tagged will give you some preselected tags, Locale is tags of some geographic nature, and the You Choose textbox lets you enter a tag of your choice and look at photos that are returned from Flickr.
So have some fun and play around. Let me know what you think of Flickr-fu!
For the technical people out there, a few more notes:
1. A design goal of Flickr-fu was to use table-less design. All style is done with CSS, *most* of which I managed to keep in an external stylesheet.
2. Another design goal was to make this thing port for people who did want a Flickr photoblog. You'll notice there's a frameset used - if you're willing to reference something external you can take the top two frames and customize it, even adding your own RSS feeds in the dropdowns. Let me know if you want this, not a problem to send.
4:49:22 PM 
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