programming

coding something can be quite a long process for me. anja mailed me some picture which i wanted to put on the homepage of the SUICMC04. since i wanted to do it in the simplest and cleanest possible way i thought to make little table with links to all of the pictures, so that when you click on them, they pop up in a new window with the right size, with a nifty “close window”-link. in the end it turned out to be a longer process than i thought:

here’s the way i did it:

• talk to b. about it.
• let b. propose some php-trickery.
• code something around:

• add all the pics to the subdirectory /pics and add a PICNAME.txt file with the description fer each and every file.
• don’t forget to use proper html-code.
• test to see if the link ../gelaende.php?name=PICNAME (aare for example) does work.
• be happy that aare.jpg and aare.txt do actually get put in the code.
• make a thumbnail of each picture (iphoto comes in handy here).
• build a 4 by 4 table with all the pics.
• don’t mess up the code that michel and abu made.
• insert

in each cell.

• substitute PICNAME with the actual name of the .jpg in each case (344 times) and don’t forget a single one.
• thank b. for being such a nice guy.
• look at the endresult.
• see that you need to look that the windows are in the right size (which they aren’t, but i have to go to bed, i’ll do that soon).
• go to bed.
• get up in 5 hours and 30 minutes.