Cycles
The idea was to hand over my poor decrepit 'mountain bike' over to the bicycle repair 'cooperation' around the corner. It's been sitting on my balcony gathering dust (from the demolition work at the back of the house) and getting a bit rusty - its tires cracked and flat.
I was going to hand it over and get back a shiny healthy bike to go cycling, preferably today. So I picked it up from the balcony and carried it down the stairs - at my life's peril - getting dust all over my clothes and grease on my hands.
When I got to the shop there was a sign up 'closed due to the birth of our twins'.
Bloody kids.
Plans thwarted by bicycle repair(wo)man's offspring I made my way to my favourite camera shop (where I bought my Canon lenses in the past) to chat up the staff, ask for their price and fondle the camera I covet. Interestingly they have both the European (EOS 300d) and the American (Digital Rebel) version - the latter of which comes with 'more software'. I'd still pick the Euro one for aesthetic reasons (red 'rebel' logo annoys me).
They are cheaper online by about 100 Euro, but it's nice to have a shop to go to, to complain and bang the counter and get that sweet 'we'll make a special price for you' feeling.
'When will you be buying one,' they asked and I said 'within the next two weeks'. If I can get over my 'oh my god the money!' vibe.
Starting up a photosite has made me realise I've had SLR's since 1980, but only recently - thanks to the internet - 'know' what to do with them - as the acres of crappy pictures in my dusty archives prove.
Fieldofdepth.com now comes with some sort of navigation, an archive, the start of an about page, a contact form and a links page. Picture descriptions have been moved to the 'comment' pop up.
Two things I want to do but can't figure out how to in MT:
All fixed.
The monthly archive format that you want is good innovation. I spotted only yesterday that Lia has something similar:
http://cheesedip.com/archives.php
I want this myself, it would be a good way to combine the current "Monthly" and "Everything" sections of my own archive page.
I must be missing something simple. I've searched high and low on how to do this, but I cannot figure it out.
What I have now is kind of cool too, php-trickery.
OK, here ya go:
-- http://hydragenic.com/archive.html
Inspired (with thanks) by code found here:
-- http://www.fortysomething.ca/mt/etc/archives/000764.php
My code in full (remove formatting that doesn't apply) is:
<DIV class=content>
<MTArchiveList archive_type="Monthly">
<P class="title"><$MTArchiveTitle$></P>
<P>
<MTEntries>
<MTEntryDate format="%d">: <a href="<MTEntryLink archive_type="Individual">"><MTEntryTitle></a>
</MTEntries> <br><br>
[ <a href="<$MTArchiveLink$>">View entire month</a> (<$MTArchiveCount$> posts) ]</br>
</P>
</MTArchiveList>
</DIV>
Damn, I missed a couple of elements that I forgot to make MT-safe (i.e. it treated them as HTML and stripped them from the comments box).
There should be a couple of & n b s p ; thingies at the end of the line above that ends with <MTEntryTitle></a>, to separate the entry dates/titles.
Thanks, that works for me. Now why couldn't I figure that out?
http://fieldofdepth.com/archives.php
" title="Click for Previous">
Main Image
Gah! That didn't work. I'll email you.
I was coming back here to post a tentative solution, seems that Derek has discovered the amazing Prolific HTML Crunching Machine too.
I'll post mine anyway, then you can see whether we've adopted similar or different approaches. I'm less confident about this, because I don't have anything directly comparable on which I can test it:
<MTEntryPrevious>
<a href="<$MTEntryLink$>"><img alt="blah" src="blah" width="600" height="400" border="0" /></a>
</MTEntryPrevious>
I think I tried that. When you wrap the image in the 'previous' tag, the image is the previous one too.
Oh, of course, because I'm seeing an <img> tag for your picture, but you must be using an MT tag in a template.
Now I'm curious as to how Derek's solution works. Too late to start checking (I need to get some sleep), but I'm wondering if there's some kind of way you can use a "thispost-1" concept in an MT tag.
>Click on photo to go to previous photo (like at hchamp.com)
So what's the solutions for this one ?
Regards,
D.
Here's the code in a text file:
http://prolific.org/archive/previousimage.txt
Oh, that's GOOD. Turn it on, turn it off; turn it on, turn it off. Devious. I like.