AnthroSite

[vakkotaur]

A couple weeks ago I posted about a python program that I was making in order to make things a bit easier when I make up a photographic web site, like the ones for RCFM and MFF. Then, it needed quite a bit of work. I might be done (if any program is really ever done) now.

I've dubbed it AnthroSite as:
1. The name wasn't being used by some other program as far as Google knows.
2. The sites I've been making and wanted it for are full of anthropomorphic creatures.
3. I like the pun which I justify as at times it seemed like I was groping in the dark like my lamp went out in a coal mine.

What does it look like now? Well, if you peak behind the cut you'll see:

I made it just for myself, but I could see others having use for it. It does not fully automate everything. It requires that the images be named a certain way, and expects them to be already be sized and oriented properly. I edit the image files anyway (some things are best cropped out of shot, after all), so I don't see that as an issue. Others might disagree, but then I suppose if everything is to be automatic there's always Flickr or such.

I suppose I could write up a page on how it works as while I know how it works, not everything is apt to obvious to someone else. That is, if anyone else will ever use it. As the program is written in python, I think (but don't know for sure) that it will run on any system that python (and the python image library) will install on - and python will install on Linux, *BSD, Windows, Mac, and I don't know what all else.

Comments

[doodlesthegreat.livejournal.com]

You might want to talk to pholph about your solution. He may have some suggestions on usability and functionality. At the moment, he's at FC, but he's an avid photographer and does plenty of his own con snaps.

AnthraCite?

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Does that mean it's a hard and rocky methodology but generates a lot of heat when you get it running?

Re: AnthraCite?

[vakkotaur.livejournal.com]

Being my first GUI program of any significance at all, it seemed rather hard to me. Now that it seems to be finished, it does give me a warm feeling. The output seems to be pretty clean, too. But then it had better, I like my web sites sharp and clean, not loaded with "designer" cruft.

Re: AnthraCite?

[altivo.livejournal.com]

The screen shots look good enough, and I know you're enough of a perfectionist that it must do what it is supposed to do.