Desktops Now Available
Posted April 2nd, 2007 @ 10:00pm by Erik J. Barzeski
The "Desktops" section is now available. Aaron Linville and I still have some tweaking to do to the resizer/watermarker script, and we'd still like to iron out some image quality issues, but it "works" in that images are served at the size you request and properly watermarked.
If you like what you see, consider donating a little cash towards the photography "hobby" and I'll keep trying to update the Desktops regularly. I promise, though, this and "step 3" on the Desktops page itself is all the begging you'll hear from me on this.
Feel free to suggest additional shots you'd like to see posted, as some people already did in the original entry on this.
Donate Life
Posted 03 Apr 2007 at 8:32am #
Wow, that's a neat feature, that resolution thingie. Solves a problem almost as old as man. (problem being: which resolutions should I offer on my desktop site?)
Posted 03 Apr 2007 at 12:51pm #
Great job, Erik!
The lion resting it's head that appears sometimes in the header image would be excellent to see!
I'll be sure to donate some cash definitely!
Matt
Posted 03 Apr 2007 at 2:16pm #
Do you have any plans to make the backend setup available?
Posted 03 Apr 2007 at 2:29pm #
[quote comment="40997"]Do you have any plans to make the backend setup available?[/quote]
Yes, very much so. Aaron Linville and I are tweaking it out a little bit currently. Sometime early next week (or late this week) is my prediction).
Try entering a really odd size, like 800 x 60 (yes, 60, not 600) and you'll see one of the weird issues we're still having. The Rust picture is a good demo of this. It looks absolutely horrible. So that's one of the problems we're trying to solve (as well as a few other things).
The current solution uses ImageMagick and builds a cache.