So, yes, melative.com is a sort of “tool” which fits the standards of anime blogging, especially in the aspect of reflections specifically directed per episode, arc, part, volume, season, etc. I know I should keep to my guns and work work work on melative, but previously I had been investing time in another tool, imgfeed. Here is the premise:
I have been snapshotting 20-30 images per episode, I could use some batch converter to resize, etc, but this is manual. ImgFeed doesn’t care too waste my time, I give it images and it stores them nicely in a folder, but by some discrete naming convention those images are indexed into sets automatically, and at the same time, the database is told the source image dimensions. BTW this would be a web directory.
The database knows what images are available, and the maximum size, why not dynamically create images sizes based on a given width attribute applied to the filename? Even better, once created let’s cache them for static retrieval. That’s hot.
An example: gundam0022-15.jpg is the original filename, when I request gundam0022-15_200.jpg, I received that image resampled to a width of 200 pixels. That’s pretty easy.
Of course there are problems with this, one being the request of some arbitrary size, well, let’s be able to define what sizes I want available. That way I can insert them into my blog knowing I will use specified sizes! One benefit here is that the large version is still retain so thumbnailing (omg that sounds dirty) is a viable option.
Add RSS, comments on each image, etc and that sounds nice. Name me one blog this couldn’t be used on? And if you said Aloe Dream you are exactly right! But I feel this would work well for many episodic blogs, as well as complimenting the usability of melative.com.
Just a thought in progress.
Ryan A
ps. I think I’ll finish Moyashimon now.
edit: It seems ImgFeed wasn’t a good name, as there is a company developing some sort of photo-management app. I’ve renamed it to AniSnaps.
Good luck with this thought. The programmer in you simply sparkles, doesn’t it?
Anyway, I hope you finish melative. It seems to be a good work-in-development, and it is very aesthetically pleasing.
Thank you much! I’m not a designer by trade, so really it eats up the coding time…
Choosing COLORS FTL! New stuff coming up though…
I should update http://blog.melative.com
hehe exactly the opposite for me, coding eats up allot of my time. I rather enjoy making the layout but when it comes to coding it and making it work and display properly online it gets to be quite the problem.
Ooo, yea, debugging sucks
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