Schierer Space

I’ve added a major new capability to the Gallery which I think is very cool. Here are the details:

• I have activated the “Keyword Album” feature. This is actually something that has been latent in the software for a while, but I hadn’t gotten around to setting it up. What it lets you do is quickly navigate the gallery by keyword, rather than (the somewhat arbitrary) album hierarchy (you can do something similar via the search feature also). In the left sidebar you will see a pull down menu which lists ALL of the keywords on the site (for now). At some point I will probably limit this only to the top 25 or so keywords, but I’m going to display all for testing purposes for a while. Once you are in a Keyword Album, each thumbnail will have keywords listed which will let you navigate to other Keyword Albums depending on what you click on. The albums should be ordered such that the most recent image (or album) is shown first. This example will take you to the Nathan Keyword Album.
• You will also find the Keyword Album links on the bottom of the album pages (for the album’s keywords) and on the image pages (for the images keywords). So if you are looking at an image of beer and food (that has been tagged), you can click the keyword “beer” to see all images of beer.
• If you have navigated to an image via a Keyword Album, there is also a link below the image which will allow you to view that image in the context of the original album (back to the normal hierarchy).
• One consequence of this addition is that I’ve been editing the tags on quite a few images so that the tags are consistent and (reasonably) useful. As such, quite a few galleries and images will show as “Updated” when really nothing significant has changed.
• There is also a new “View Latest Updates” link in the sidebar for each album. It will provide a dynamic gallery of the most recent images in that album (and children albums). So if you click on that link when viewing the top level gallery album, it will show you the most recent images in the entire gallery. Try it!

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