Bird gallery

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Created on Sunday, 26 May 2024 18:31

To keep my programming skills in good shape, but mostly just for fun, I've included some functionality to my bird gallery.
When you hover over the upper right of the screen there appears a search bar where you can search by (part of) a name in either English, Dutch or Latin. You don't have to fill in the complete name which gives the posibility to search for related species, for instance searching for 'warbler' will show all warblers.
You can also filter by rating: typing in '4' shows all photos with a rating of 4 and higher. By default all photos with a rating of 3 and higher are shown, but if you filter by name or date photos with a rating of 2 are also shown. These photos are not necessarily worse than 3 star photos, but they can be more of the same.
Lastly you can filter by month and/or year: typing in '2022' shows all photos of that year and typing in 'jan 2023' shows all photos of that month, which happen to be only Little Buntings (note you have to fill in the first 3 letters of the month in English). To get all birds again empty the search field and hit enter.
Also I've added an information page about each photo which contains a lot of technical information, but also the location where the photo was shot. This page opens in a new tab, hitting the 'close window' button brings you back to the gallery.

Apart from this functionality I've added two statistics pages: The first is the 'birds per month' page, which, as the name suggests, shows the number of bird photos taken each month that are shown on the web page. The months are links to the gallery showing the bird photos of that particular month, this shows the same photos as the method described above.
The second page, 'photos per bird',shows the number of photos per bird species, giving some information about what my favourite birds are, but this is not necessarily so: a bird at the top of this list can simply be an easy-to-photograph bird. Here also the name of the bird is a link to the gallery of photos of that bird.

New jquery image gallery

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Created on Sunday, 26 July 2015 21:34

My choice for a Flash image gallery seems to have been the wrong one: after Apple and later on Android dropped their support for Flash my site couldn't be viewed on mobile devices. Now that screen quality and resolution of mobile devices is getting better and better, this is a serious drawback. Also the particular flash gallery I used had a few problems in how it handled different aspect ratios. Also adjusting it was problematical because of the complexity of Flash.
After an internet search I've chosen an (javascript/jquery) image gallery by Manos Malihutsakis, you can find it (at least the original version) here: manos.malihu.gr/simple-jquery-fullscreen-image-gallery. I adapted it to make it as 'minimal' as possible, without buttons cluttering up the page.

Joomla redesign

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Created on Friday, 09 December 2011 21:34

I've just finished the redesign of my homepage. Stylistically it's not a total 'make-over', although I think it looks quite a bit better now. For the most part however the changes have taken place 'under the hood': I've implemented a content management system (CMS) called Joomla. I did this partly to make maintenance easier, but mostly actually to learn how a CMS works. Probably for a site as small as mine a website template would have been sufficient. Anyhow, it was fun working things out. I hope you enjoy the site!