Changes.
First off, don’t forget to vote in the “what images should Gerson be grabbing” poll to the right. It’s a little vague I know, but if I will use it a guide of where I should concentrate my image acquisitions. I will probably have another poll on how much I should be showing from each of my categories.
On to business - here are some of the changes I’ve made to the site lately - lemme know if you have any questions or thoughts on them:
*IS: Fixed the problem of captions getting attached to different images than they were meant for.
*IS: Got grabs for the entire Drive In Movie Ads collection at archive.org.
*IS: Added protection against missing/corrupt screengrabs.
*WPT: Combined the picture set previews with the list of stories for the picture set. Minor layout changes to take advantage of this.
*WPT: Added navigation between picture sets on stories.php.
*WPT: Fixed the moving menu item bug in IE that could keep items on the edge of the window from being clicked
At the very least, I drastically reduced the occurrence of “wrong images”. It’s probably a day one bug that’s gradually occurred more often as I changed the site (eg - stopped using live grabs, used randomly picked grabs more). This isn’t a true fix, but unfortunately, neither the computer I test the site on or the one I run it on support the features I need to stomp it out fully. Ironically, the guards against bad grabs are probably part of what made this happen more often. Of course, if it hadn’t stated getting worse, I’d have probably never seen it and actually believed it. Thanks to TyranosaurisRex for bringing this one to my attention.
The drive in collection will be sprinkled into rotation as part of the features and shorts in the 4 PM and 10 PM hours. Between the fact that they’re less than 1% of the images in that collection on top of the tricks I used to keep them from all running as a unit, it may be a week or two before anybody actually spots one.
