Archive for the ‘System Update’ Category

Now Using FancyZoom!

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008

After endless testing and server optimization, we've decided to go with FancyZoom as the fullsized photo plugin. FancyZoom has it's ins and out but it load sthe photo about 3x faster than the lightbox plugins. The drawback is that there is no "next photo" option. You can look through the ...

upgrade’s etc

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008

so we've been trying a few different plugins for nthe actual pop-open portion of the photos. The three features I wanted were: 1) speed (quick load time) 2) the ability to view newxt picture or previous picture (without zooming out) 3) the ability to copy the picture to your desktop by dragging or ...

Update: Downloadable Pictures

Monday, April 28th, 2008

Users complained that they couldn't save as or drag photos to their desktop. I have no idea where that bug came from but I've incorporated a temporary workaround. If you click on a picture it is now a link to the raw file hosted on the Flickr Farm. That one is Save ...

ON RSS & Upgrades

Monday, April 28th, 2008

Some of you may not be familiar with RSS or ATOM yet but basically it's a notification system for XML documents in things like blogs or for instance this photo archiving site. If you don't know what it's about, check out the wiki on RSS. If you use Safari or Firefox it is integrated into ...

J.S. Mill: On User Submitted Photos

Monday, April 28th, 2008

I'd like to introduce a feature that just had its first use. Even though this site still isn't officially launched we have grabbed about 1100 visitors in the last 7 days. So that's a great sign. That being said, we are not out to build some contrived social network but when ...