My gift to the world.. my first piece of freeware!

[Gunnar]

Well, I'm not sure how the populace around here receives small bits of freeware like mine, but I'm advertising it here anyway. Its a program that creates a browsable album by creating a website out of a directory of pictures. I made it so that anyone running Java 1.4 or better can run it without having to download any additional libraries.

I'd appreciate any (constructive) comments or suggestions. Its still in its infancy, but I think it has some promise, I have a lot of ideas in store. Its only too bad that I'm not an extraordinary webdesigner......

The link: www.fox302.com/~gunnar/

This web space was graciously provided by another member of the Anandtech board. I wasn't sure I should give out his name, so I'd like to thank him if he reads this!

Thanks to anyone who uses it!

 

[Aves]

Originally posted by: Gunnar
Well, I'm not sure how the populace around here receives small bits of freeware like mine, but I'm advertising it here anyway. Its a program that creates a browsable album by creating a website out of a directory of pictures. I made it so that anyone running Java 1.4 or better can run it without having to download any additional libraries.

I'd appreciate any (constructive) comments or suggestions. Its still in its infancy, but I think it has some promise, I have a lot of ideas in store. Its only too bad that I'm not an extraordinary webdesigner......

The link: www.fox302.com/~gunnar/

This web space was graciously provided by another member of the Anandtech board. I wasn't sure I should give out his name, so I'd like to thank him if he reads this!

Thanks to anyone who uses it!

We all know who owns that domain name.

Looks cool.

 

[notfred]

I tried it out when you first sent it to me (don't know if it's been updated since then), and it actually works really well It could use a little more input as to how you want the page format, but I was pleased overall. I'm sure you'll add more features eventually.

In a hopefully not too long while, there will be a page up on that domain for my mp3 player remote, and possibly my image decoded (that will likely take longer, though), which, coincidentally, are both also written in Java

 

[Aves]

I ran it a few times and it's neat.

A couple of things that I noticed:

At the bottom of the page the following text appears: "Created on WebAlbum written by Prasant Jagannath"

The text that is your name and is a hyperlink to send you an email appears in the same color the user specifies in the app as the text color. If the user selects black headers with white text and no background image, like I did, the link becomes invisible.

Not sure how easy that would be to workaround but I thought I'd mention it.

Also, in the app you have the following buttons at the bottom:

RESET | RUN | EXIT

It may just be me but I instinctively click the first button to run the program and twice I accidentally reset it instead.

Perhaps this layout would be better:

RUN | RESET | EXIT


The app is definetly cool though. I am taking basic Java right now so I find it particularly interesting.

 

[Gunnar]

Thanks for the input!

I'll definitely play around with the button ordering.

Right now, I want to transition the thing to use CSS. It gives a lot more flexibility on doing the individual colorings and stuff. Expect more within the next week!

I'm also glad that no one seems to have a problem running it. I haven't gotten around to check it on other platforms, but I would really like to know if everyone is able to run it okay.

Anyone know good webdesign books that I could learn from? I want to increase the browsability of the sight, as well as make it more aesthetically pleasing.

 

[Transition]

Good Job.

 

[WinkOsmosis]

Thanks. I've been looking for a program like this.