CSS, cool programming, and now pictures!
Mark Pilgrim reminds us that in the pre-digital age it took three days to get your prints from a roll of 35mm film. But now:
In the new-and-improved Digital Age, you can take as many as 200 pictures at a time in your spiffy $400 digital camera, download them to your hard drive, stay up until 3 AM writing custom scripts to organize them and auto-create thumbnail galleries and HTML pages for them, buy a domain name, install weblogging software, and upload them to your web site. Total wait time: 7 months.
Mark’s photo album is now online and worth more than a casual glance. As one might expect, the interface he’s scripted makes looking through the album a real pleasure. Though there are some cat pictures, I was taken by the night shots of what looks like a fairytale gingerbread house in the snow.
