Updated my Photos Page
Aug 19th, 2009 by Josh
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I had been using the Dezinerfolio version 1 photo gallery (link) to display photos on my page from my Picasa account. I didn’t want to manually handle photos, so Picasa seemed to be the way to go. Needless to say for anyone who tried to view those photos it was awkward at best.
I then tried to switch to Dezinerfoilo version 2 (link) but it hasn’t worked quite right and the developer is working to get it fixed.
Recently, I found my new system, it’s called PWI or Picasa Web Integrator (link). It’s java code that uses Google Picasa’s API to pull the pictures into a website and display them. You can check it out in use at my Photos Page. I can make changes regarding album visibility, captions, etc. to the photos in Picasa and see it reflected immediately on the photos page. It also has full CSS capability so I can (and did) edit the CSS to make the photo container match my site. I can’t imagine an easier way to display photos on a site while retaining visual “customizability”. There are picasa widgets, but as far as their appearance…you get what you get.
