For I am captured once again.

[reddragdiva]

reddragdiva.co.uk is go! I've decided that'll be the photo gallery and davidgerard.co.uk (which at this writing is still a redirect to the old site) will be the ordinary web page. The shots from last B-Movie are the first things up (captioning today); more will follow, particularly when(ever) I get the laptop back to life. Photo policy. Note that full-size pics don't work yet.

Comments and suggestions are most welcomed — if you didn't know who I was and I took a picture of you and told you the site address, what would you think when you saw the site?

I won't be shifting things from the Fotopic site; new stuff will go up here. Coppermine appears to do what I want without pissing me off too much, though we'll see how it goes moving its MySQL tables from revenants to iio.

Tonight is Dreadnought, in a converted toilet (though not yellow). I hope to go to this if I can convince my body the tickle in my throat is tiredness and not a cold.

redcountess has photos up of her doll Ren's new faceup. Who does she first bring to mind for you?

Update: Vain goths wanted! I want to print off cards to hand to people I don't know when I take their picture and they ask what it's for, with a small black-and-white photo from either site. Who would like to be on some? Please nominate yourself and the picture. You can nominate your favourite pictures of others if you like, but you have to convince them it's a good idea ;-)

Update 2: Dreadnought probably not a happener tonight after all. Ah well. Perhaps next month.

Comments

[baljemmett.livejournal.com]

At the moment, the four empty boxes at the top make it look a little deserted -- presumably they'll fill up with other albums as soon as you get the data over. Apart from that (and judging by your old galleries) I suppose my reaction would be "whoa, this guy takes a lot of pictures, I wonder how bad I look next to these!" 'Course, I'm not a goth, but rather just a pervy goth fancier.

[By the way, I have to squint to read the "49 files, last one added on Jan 26, 2006" text -- I think a combination of the small bold font and wonderful antialiasing has fuzzed it up a bit. Everything else is readable enough, allowing for the dark scheme; perhaps make that font match that of the filenames / "x views"?]

[reddragdiva]

The fonts probably need kicking up a size. They're in the theme, and it's clear the theme was designed to be 'l33t on IE rather than Firefox, which a lot of my readers would be using.

[baljemmett.livejournal.com]

On Firefox here too, and everything apart from that particular label is decently legible (given the state of my eyes, it's quite an achievement to have dark grey miniaturized text on a black background remain legible!).

Just gave it a quick look on IE, and I see what you mean -- the font-size: 85%; seems to be the culprit, which makes it look intentional. My old CSS reference notes that IE's support for the font-size attribute is "partial / quirky" so perhaps it's ignoring it completely or mucking up inheritance, while Firefox is showing it as the designer intended? Bleh.

[reddragdiva]

I've changed the one attribute mentioned in the FAQ and it looks better here.

[baljemmett.livejournal.com]

Ah, that's much easier to read, great!

[reddragdiva]

The docs say you can enlarge all the fonts in a given theme by changing one line of its style.css . I'll try that when I get home.

[mofette.livejournal.com]

whoops. most viewed photo by 170! :D

[reddragdiva]

Which one? (And are you nominating yourself? :-D )

[mofette.livejournal.com]

no, none of the photos you have of me are any good :(

[reddragdiva]

awwww!

[vampwillow]

I'm considering dreadnought (as it promises to have EBM ... yay!!!) as Xtro is MIA at the moment ...

[shamus9999.livejournal.com]

It looks good. I like Coppermine better than Gallery (as far as the layout and controls go from a mere viewer's, um, viewpoint). I wonder if Coppermine has been integrated with Drupal as a module? Or with Postnuke?

Someday I'll send you a picture of me in my Kipchak garb. :)