We got back Sunday from Thailand (Bangkok and Ko Samui) and Japan (Tokyo and Kyoto) pretty exhausted. They were amazing places but very, very hot and humid.

So, is the honeymoon over yet?

http://www.photomischa.com/

Click on Client Login.
Click on Online Proofing.
Click on Weddings, Events, and Portrait Sessions.
(It doesn’t matter what e-mail address you use. It can be fake.)
Select Kathleen & Mark’s Wedding Preview (under August 2007).

That’s cool re: making the proof viewer all static html. For some reason I thought it was being generated on-the-fly. That’ll be perfect to give to clients and stuff. Now you just need to add an auto-watermarking feature (or is that, in fact, done in the script, too?)

Actually, the proof viewer I did is just one static html page — so from that perspective it’s really simple. I have a command line perl script that creates the thumbnails and the page, but after that it’s just the images and one static file in a directory. That’s one of the things I like about it

Man, there’s more javascript kits than I was aware of. I’m so behind! Neat stuff. Mootools seems to have the best front-page marketing talk. Maybe I should give one of these a try…

http://www.flickr.com/groups/mrbento/pool/show/

I’ve gone in the completely opposite direction as you and am now using jigl to create a simple static html gallery. I figure it only costs me an additional 10-15% in disk space to add html, a thumbnail, and a mid-sized image to the directory. Anyhow my computers at home are CPU-bound, so pre-calculating the entire gallery saves time in the end.

The other nice thing about a static gallery is that it’s really easy to make CD-R copies of the gallery (or even just parts of the gallery) to give to people.

I’m still a big fan of mochikit, but I think the cool kids (at least the non-ruby-on-rails cool kids) are playing with mootools and jquery these days. Now I understand that search volume isn’t a perfect metric of popularity, but this year

http://www.google.com/trends?q=jquery%2C+mootools%2C+mochikit%2C+yahoo+ui%2C+prototype+%28toolkit%7Cjavascript%7Clibrary%7Cframework%29&ctab=0&geo=all&date=2007&sort=0

jquery and mootools are trending up, whereas mochikit, yui, and prototype are flat.

I’ve used Flickr a bit. It’s a fine site but I’m not a fan of the interface. They seem to have a hybrid of a thumbnail viewer with a mid-sized image, and then a separate full sized image with mini thumbnail viewer. But I’m not totally happy with either. And too much page reloading. Why can’t everyone make things the way _I_ want, huh?

I probably should get into something like YUI or GWT or even Scriptaculous. But I’ll probably wait another few years. Even this much web 2.0 like stuff gave me the shivers!