When I migrated my website from the old server to the new server, I deliberately changed the file structure of the website. The positive: All of the robots that were sending me junk pings, trackbacks, and comments could no longer find my blog! The negative: All of my existing photo journal links were broken--thousands and thousands of them. Repairing them, even while maximizing automation in the process, is no small task!
But the task didn't just stop there. The old photo album software I used to generate these albums had a horrendous quirk: placing all of the CSS tag attributes into each and every html file! Good god! What was the author of that software thinking? The whole point of CSS is to reduce file size not swell it exponentially. So, I have also gone through and reformatted all of the thousands of html files to access just two CSS files instead of each html file containing their contents. Again, no small task!
But it gets better! I am pleased to report that you can now successfully drill all of the way down into the USA Gallery! I started my link repair and CSS reformatting work here because I added 3 new photo albums to the USA Gallery: New York, NY; Red Rock, Colorado; and Estes Park, Colorado. Be sure to check these out. The new software I am using, Apple Computer's Aperture, is very nice! I will have several enhancement suggestions for Apple as a result of this experience. At any rate, I think you will enjoy the customized CSS for the new albums, though I will continue to tweak it.
(Each picture above is a link to New York, Red Rock, and Estes Park respectively)
God, I just utterly love the Rockies! My goal is to have all of the photo journals up and working by week's end. I'll be adding a new Paris, 2005, album soon!
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