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-= Navigation =-
- Feed the Beast! -
You can send new photos by two means. Either, as explain in the "Concept" page, by sending a photo directly from your mobile phone or by uploading a photo from the "Submit" page.If you send a picture using your mobile phone, I won't explain you how to use it. You should know.
If you choose to submit the picture via the web form, there are a few things you should be aware of...
The image size is limited to about 1M. If your file is much bigger than this single megabyte, don't waste your time trying to upload it, resize your photo instead and upload the resized version. If the file is just 1M, you can give it a try...
Regarding the image dimensions now, the site has been designed for pictures in 640x480. I know that most of the pictures shot with digital cameras are bigger than that so I am trying to figure out something. If you want you photo to look good right now, resize it. If you don't care to break the layout of the site, bring it on!
- Browse -
You can browse the main pages by clicking on the links on the top of the page (Top, The Concept, Pictures...)When you are in the "Pictures" page, you can sort pictures when clicking on the column title. You can sort picture by:
- Id: The id of the picture in the database. Almost that same as sorting by date, you might note minor differences due to some corrections that could have happened.
- Author: Discover the peculiar style of each photographer by listing all the pictures of one specific author.
- Date: This is the real blog functionality. One picture a day keeps the sorrow away!
- Time: Pictures are not the same wether taken a 1AM or 1PM, see how the days goes on, hour by hour...
- Votes: What's good, what's not? Vox populi, Vox Dei!
- Comments: Check the pictures that people are talking about...
- Interact / React -
When viewing a photo full size, you'll notice the "Vote" link. Click it to add a vote to this picture.You can also add a comment to the picture. Comments considered as "bad" will be removed without notice.
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-= Issues =-
Some strange characters appear?The site has been designed with Japanese in mind. You might have to install Japanese fonts into you operating system. It doesn't hurt and you will see how pretty all those small little kanjis and hiraganas might look... Just try!
The display of the pages is weird?
There might be a problem with how your browser handle stylesheets. Note that the whole site has been designed and tested using Firefox under Linux. I am doing my best to improve the site under other environments. If you are using Internet Explorer, consider using another browser (like Firefox? yes, definitely!).
You sent a photo but it didn't appear?
Well, that mean that something went wrong with my scripts or that your mobile phone is behaving in an unexpected manner.
You could contribute to the overall improvement of this site by sending the email again to niblog-admin@delachaise.net. I will have a look and try to understand what went wrong.
When you rotate an image, the rotation is more (or less) than you were expecting?
The file you are watching has been recently rotated by somebody else. Therefore, you rotated the temporary image instead of the real image.
When you rotate an image, the result is a bit corrupted?
For the moment I have no idea why this happens (I suspect the jpegtran function). If it is really too messed, go back to the original picture and... rotate your head.
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-= Upcoming =-
This is my own personal reminder...Items are not prioritized (well, not completely...)
- Remember last login time (need DB change)
- Create perso 'welcome page' (if registered)
- Subscribe to friends (need DB change)
- Add 'Tags' (is it really useful?!?!)
- Remember last login time
- Send the picture via email.
- merge cookie files
- Add a "Dinosaurs" page to see previous versions of the site. Completely useless...
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-= Wanna help? =-
Any help, comment or idea is warmly welcome!If you have an idea of a feature that would be nice to add, if you have some skills in any of the domains liste below, drop me a line: niblog-admin@delachaise.net Don't send regular emails to niblog, they will be dropped without notice.
- Web design (CSS, HTML)
- Graphics (GIMP or others)
- PHP
- SQL
-= Specials Thanks =-
(by alphabetical order)Grokwik
Hi
Oliv
RedBishop
Schlum
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-= Version & Changelog =-
Niblog version 0.9
Latest update: 2009/02/27
2009/02/27 (Rev. 171): Code improvements
Code improvements: Added geolocation feature. New link in the leftnav-data bar with a link to Google Map (if photo comes in with GPS data).
2008/08/28 (Rev. 168): Code improvements, bugfixes
Code improvements: Now you can rotate 'permenantly' your pictures (and restore them).
Bugfix (IE Bug): Force IE to reload the photo when rotating the image.
2008/07/30 (Rev. 153): Code improvements
Code improvements: (1)Now you can add comments on comments.
(2)Email notifications on comments.
2007/09/06 (Rev. 129): Code improvements
Code improvements: (1)Now the photo can be erased and its title changed.
(2)The user has the option to remember the session. No need to type in the login/pass everytime.
2007/08/18 (Rev. 123): HTML
HTML: When changing the sort column, the sort direction is preserved.
2007/07/08 (Rev. 119): Mail system
Mail system: Added filtering rules to avoid spam mails.
2007/06/17 (Rev. 106): CSS Stylesheets, HTML, Database, Code improvements
CSS, HTML: Finally reached some sort of uniformization between MSIE and Firefox. Also added a couple of funky icons.
Database: Long comments are now possible.
Code improvements: Users can now update/delete comments they added. Versionned up to 0.9
2007/05/04 (Rev. 86): Code improvements
Code improvements: Large pictures are now automatically resized to fit in the frame. Image is clickable to open the full picture in another window.
2007/04/15: Code improvements
Code improvements: Users can add a comment using a nickname.
2007/04/07: Code improvements
Code improvements: Changed the way users vote. A single click can add up to 5 votes.
2007/03/24: Code improvements, DB structure, HTML pages, Dev environment
Code improvements: Added users management
My, oh my, this one took some time! Deserve an upgrade to v0.8.
HTML pages: The mosaic/calendar page. And all the pages neede for the users to login, manage their account and do their stuff...
Dev environment: Finally decided to use SVN. Love it.
2006/01/13: Code improvements, HTML pages, Dev environment
Code improvements: Added a search function to show the latest pictures and comments for a certain period of time. This function is used for a plain search done by the user and also in the top page to show the latest comments (so one can read them all...)
Upgraded to V0.7 since the search tool is a new functionnality.
HTML pages: The search pages.
Dev environment: Made it even easier for me to upgrade the dev site to release site. Also modified the zaurus environment for the same purpose.
2006/11/18: DB structure, cookies improvements, files organization
Database: The encoding was quite a mess actually. I thought it was UTF8 and in fact it was some kind of blob from outer space. Now it is really UTF8.
Cookies: Cookies are now used to store the sorting data and order. I.e.: you can sort ASC and DESC.
Files: Made it easier for me to switch a dev version into production.
2006/10/01: This website is now 1 year old.!
2006/06/04: DB structure, code improvements, HTML pages, Stylesheets
Database: changed the DB so date of input is now stored as UNIX timestamp. It implies changing the Procmail script, upload and comment scripts.
Code: Applied the cookies feature. Now the sort order is stored as a cookie. As expected, it had many dependencies...
Also made PHP code simplifications like query uniformization.
HTML pages: Added the mosaic page.
Added information bubble when the mouse is over the picture.
Modified the top page. Thanks to cookies, the data is kindof dynamic.
Stylesheets: left navbar has been enlarged. IE Bugs fixed (definitely IE is stupid!!!!).
Version upgraded to 0.6 since the cookie feature adds a many possibilities...Altogether, I expect this version to be somehow unstable, bugfixes will come later.
2006/05/27: (not applied) Cookies, web pages
Added cookies features. Last connection is remembered and the top page presents you the last feeds.
Sorting has also been improved. Sort order is not passed as URL parameter anymore, it is stored as cookie. Makes it easier for me.
2006/05/27: (not applied) Database
Converted the database into UTF-8. Seems that JIS encoding broke some text containing katakana. Couldn't figure out why so I converted the whole lot.
2006/05/17: (not applied) Text
Changed the "Concept" page.
2006/05/14: Bug fixes, improvements
Added thumbnails. Now when a picture is sent, a thumbnail is created and the thumbnail (and not a reduced picture) is displayed in the photos list. This should improve viewing speed and browser memory.
Footer of "Pictures" page was still using HTML instead of standard footer.
Added a link from the left picture to its display page.
Added a "favicon" (the small icon next to the URL).
Added an "Upcoming" item in the information page. I'll try to keep it up to date with ideas I get.
Kinda bugfix. Adding a comment without author and/or comment led to no comment added but the counter was incremented.
Upgraded to v0.5 since the thumbnails stuff is major improvement.
2006/05/12: (not applied) Bug fix, mixed encoding within the title.
Some mobile phone send mixed plain english and SJIS encoded mail subjects. The encoded part appeared as is in the title of the photo.
Now it is correctly handled. Have to do it also for UTF (just in case...)
2006/04/06: Ooops! Bug fixes...
Thanks to Igricheff, some bad bugs were tacked down and killed.
For people interested in dirty details, access rights were not properly set.
2006/03/27: Bugfix, version up
Adding a comment or voting for a photo lost the sort order.
Upgraded to version 0.4 due to the addition of "Submit" feature.
2006/03/17: (not applied) Design
Minor modification to make comments easier to add. You now have a whole textarea to add long comments and philosophy. Carriage returns are handled and I am trying to figure out how to add smileys.
2006/03/04: (not applied) Db, scripts
Changed the table names for compatibility with my Zaurus.
Pages list on top of page has been enhanced so it doesn't get out of the window.
Subject of photos sent with a UTF8/Base64 encoded subject is now decoded.
Added a robots.txt to prevent search engine to vote frantically.
2006/01/17: Db, scripts and design
Applied all the modifications that I couldn't apply plus a few extra to make things clear.
Comments should be working quite well, sorting also...
Decided to upgrade to version 0.3, since there has been many internal changes.
2006/12/04 (not applied, between Copenhagen and Tokyo): scripts
Added the "Next" and "Prev." links to the photo view. It can handle the sorting order selected in the list view.
2005/12/23 (not applied, entre Tokyo et Paris): Internal reorganisation, scripts
Added scripts to add comments to th pictures.
With these comments, you have the opportunity to explain a picture you sent or to react (good or bad) to a picture.
Exploded the scripts in many sub-scripts, easier to maintain and to debug.
Altogether, and when these modifications will be applied, the version will move up to 0.3.
2005/12/06 (Saint Nicolas!!): Internal re-organization, scripts
Added the "Rotate" function.
Simplified my own development environment.
Added the "Administration" page (even though it's empty)
2005/11/16: Db, scripts and design
Added a "Ranking" column to the DB, now you can vote for the pictures you like.
Embedded the picture into a page with a link to vote for the photo.
Harmonization of the side photos in every main pages.
Various text modifications.
2005/11/09: Scripts: Add the "jump to page" links.
Tested the behavior of the scripts when sending a picture from a regular mail software (Thunderbird). Worked OK. Still need to make further tests.
2005/11/05: CSS: improved compatibility with IE.
Site looks almost the same under IE or Firefox (if you are using another browser, please tell me how it looks).
New Concept page in the menu.
Email address of the sender is now hidden.
2005/11/04: Scripts and stylesheet update.
Photos are presented pages after pages. Can navigate back and forth.
New menubar at the top of the page. New Info page.
2005/10/30: Update to version 0.2.
Scripts are now in PHP.
2005/10/xx: Stylesheet updates.
Say hello to the niglo
2005/10/01: First version is now on line (v0.1).
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-= Me, Myself & I =-
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