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Notes and Comments
This site is about pictures. Any verbiage I throw in is worth what you paid for it. That's why this site is called 'Keanespics' and not 'Keanerunsoffatthemouth'...| Index to Notes and Comments |
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| About this site |
| About the design |
| About the content |
| About panoramics |
| About filenames |
| History |
About this site:
While most pictures I want on this site are on this site, there's a bunch of places that still need some narrative. This will get filled in over time, though I did try to at least include a summary with every topic.
There are also many descriptions and comments that will be filled in on the picture pages. Most of the locations, descriptions and comments are from original spreadsheets when the photos were initially organized.
Once I get another negative/slide scanner, I'll probably expand a few sections with older photos.
And I know my spelling is atrocious, and much of my grammar is... questionable. :-)
About the design of this site:
This site started as a simple exercise to learn HTML. Mostly, so I could look at a source page and figure out what it was trying to do.
I started with an old HTML book that was lying around the office (and yep, three or four years is old these days), read it, and put together a page using frames. It did everything I wanted. It took me less than a week.
Then I pick up a new book, and find out they want to get rid of frames, and is destined to become unsupported. (Like anything is supported in the first place...) And suddenly, I'm reading about XHTML and style sheets.
So what was once a very simple markup language, has become abstract documents in which you need to know two languages (css and HTML, each with it's own command sets and syntax), an intricate knowledge of tables (which aren't just columns and rows of data anymore...See that picture and caption to the right? It's a table!), as well as having enough behavior differences in the different popular web browsers to make you nuts...
After all that was figured out, then I had to design a standard interface so I could write a html code generator. I still have to make improvements to it, but it does what I need it to do.
Yes, I know I could have bought a program to do all of this for me, but I'm not sure I could make the pages behave exactly the way I wanted, and that wasn't the point of this exercise in the first place, now was it? :-)
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About the content:
The hardest part about this site was the data organization and content. I haven't counted yet, but there are some 7000 different images on this site, from Maine to California; from Washington to Key West. Worse is trying to extract information from those cryptic notes you made about a trip 15 years ago. Sure it made sense to you *then*...But at least I *have* notes.
In the places I've written comments, I've noticed I jump from past tense (like I was there) to present tense and back. I've tried to be consistent, but sometimes, I'll lapse into one mode or the other. I find I like to use present tense in trip reports, and past tense in other things.
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About Panoramics:
This segment got too long, and too large. There's another page called About Panoramics that you can access from here.
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About Filenames:
One side effect of developing this site, was to unify all of the filenames to a common algorithm. I can theoretically now take every photo I have and put them in a single folder with no file name duplication.
There are two different types of filenames. Those are BD (Before Digital) and AF (After Film). There are exceptions, but those two are the general types.
All of my AF images have EXIF information, so I have a date and time stamp for every picture. The time is probably accurate after 2003. Earlier than that, it might be off by an hour if I actually adjusted the time for the time zone I was in. After 2003, all of my timestamps are in Central Time. Anyway, let's dissect a few. It's not rocket science.
Example 1: 200612FL_101C04102
The first four digits is the year, and the next two digits is the month. (December 2006 in this example.) That's followed by a short mnemonic for the trip (FL is Florida, in this case.)
The number following the underscore, is the sequence number. It could be 2, 3 or 4 digits. (Since I'm usually combining pics from two or three cameras, all the pictures are combined and sorted by date, then each picture is assigned a sequence number.)
The next letter is the source. Common sources are:
C:Canon Raw (.crw or .cr2)
D:Sony HC1
F:Nikon F3
I:Canon JPG
J:Not taken by me, but by people with me
K:Kodak P&S
N:Sony TRV900
P:Canon Raw (.cr2)
R:'Roids, as in a Polaroid camera of some type
S:Flatbed scan
T:Sony TRV20
X:Unknown
The two digits after that is the day of the month, and the last three digits are the time. 102 (in our example) was taken from 10:20 to 10:29 in the morning.
Example 2: 200106ECT_177s399T11175
An 's' between two sequence numbers means the image is being forced into a sequence. The new, arbitrary sequence number precedes the 's', the original sequence number follows.
Example 3: 200509DSW_05770583C15170
If there's a double wide sequence number, the image has multiple exposures, usually a panoramic. In the above example, the panoramic is composed of images 577 through 583.
On the other hand, I have no such luxury with my BD (Before Digital) pictures. The closest timestamp I can narrow a BD picture to, is the day. Sometimes, the month.
YYYYMMDD[desc]_[seq][Src]RRFF[old description].EXT
YYYYMMDD:Year,Month,Day; 00=unknown
[desc]:3 character description
[seq]:sequence number. This could be real or artificial, or panoramic;
varying in length, but constant within [desc].
[Src]:1 character Source
RRFF: Roll/Frame
[old description]:description in old filename, if any.
Negatives and slides were scanned in using an HP Photosmart S20 and an Epson Perfection V750 Pro.
Finally, do you find it ironic that most of the pictures on the index pages have me in them and couldn't possibly have been taken by me? I do...
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This site has been tested on:
Safari 3.1 and Firefox 2.0 on Mac OS X 10.5.2
Firefox 3.0b5 and Konqueror 3.5.9 on Kubuntu 3.5.9
Firefox 3.0 & 3.5, Netscape 7.0 and Internet Explorer 7 & 8 on Windows XP SP3
The WWW browser on Playstation 3, firmware 2.30 (It'll even play the videos!)
Site History:
02/13/2007 - Project started.
01/06/2008 - First beta.
05/01/2008 - First deployment.
05/06/2008 - Addition of About Panoramics.
06/02/2008 - Addition of 64 1969 Disneyland pics and 41 1969 Marineland pics (to Sea World section.)
06/15/2008 - Other/Yes: 25 additional pictures added, all slides rescanned. 06/30/2008 - Addition and modification of various resort maps.
09/03/2008 - Update of National Museum of the United States Air Force.
02/25/2009 - Addition of 2008 SouthWest vacation and 2008 Theme Park Trip Report.
03/01/2009 - New version of IllumiNations in place.
03/04/2009 - Update of All Star Resorts page.
03/05/2009 - Update UO Hotels, City Walk
03/07/2009 - Update IoA, USF.
04/17/2009 - Great Movie Ride Video
04/15 through 05/30/2009 - Major reorg of site: Replace all picture html to version 1.5. Breakup of large picture directories into smaller index fragments, and provide links to major topics in the index. Eliminated all 3 deep nests.
08/30/2009 - Fixed About Pans links broken by above... :-)
09/24/2009 - Replaced video page (new index prototype); Added several videos, osborne lights
10/04/2009 - New links within long picture strings implemented and completed.
10/24/2009 - WDW vs. DLR size comparison
11/24/2009 - Addition of 1983 WDW Vacation Guide, removal of unnecessary tree traversing page links
12/29/2009 - Addition of Dec 2009 Trip report
01/15/2010 - New Animal Kingdom Lodge page. (Added Kidani, reboot to 600px pics.)
01/16/2010 - New Crescent Lake Area page. WDW_Other becomes WDW_DD (Downtown Disney) and Boardwalk section in Cresent Lake.
01/17 through 01/24/2010 - Integration of Dec 2009 trip into their respective WDW web pages; Minor text updates.
02/05/2010 - Add Venice, more descriptive road trip links
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