G'day, me again...
As I use WAG to generate the album output, but need to incorporate that into my existing web, I'd like to see an option whereby I can move the generated album index file somewhere else (my root folder), while still keeping all the links to the generated picture files (and vice-versa) intact.
For example, I'd like to get WAG to be able to generate the index.html as a renameable file, and specify where I want to put it within the site (for me, it's always in the root folder, but others might be different).
Then WAG would go ahead and generate the "normal" html picture files, CSS file, and so on, in the nominated album subfolder. Those generated files would automagically refer back to the nominated index.html name and location, without the need for me to edit manually.
I guess this is really only advisable for those who really know what they're doing (and I've been working in HTML for nearly 30 years, so I do kinda know what I'm doing).
I don't want to have a huge array of confusing options that would intimidate or frustrate new users, since WAG works so well for these folks as well. But maybe have an "advanced" tab, where we could set (as per my other requests/suggestions) :-
- the source path for the images,
- whether or not to generate -intermediate filename suffixes for non-original images (so I can then make the original images clickable in the album view, although I understand this may be coming soon),
- whether to copy the -small and -intermediate images into the album path, or put them back with the original files,
- whether to rename and/or move the index.html somewhere other than the album path (in my case, the root),
- whether to generate a full html document or a "bare" alternative with just body tags,
- whether to prefix css classes, ids, and tags with "WAG-" or "Album-" or something user-specifiable,
... and so on.
I realise not all of this may be doable at one time, so I'm more than happy to test each intermediate step.
Currently, I perform all these changes by hand - it takes me around 5-10 minutes to make all these changes to the generated sources, (I use an excellent text editor with multi-document find/replace, regexps, and so on), copy and rename the generated jpg files, and another 20-30 minutes to incorporate all the CSS and image html code back into my existing website (using Expression Web 4.0 as my primary design and management tool, with dynamic web templates).
I'm very sorry if this has all been suggested/answered before now, but I couldn't find an exact reference to these particular issues.
Thanks for reading this far, I hope all of this is clearer than mud.
Please feel free to ask for more specifics if I'm making a muddle of this!
And please keep up the great work - WAG is just so much fun to use, and because it's so standards-compliant, it's a dream to incorporate into my designs.
Kind regards,
PCPete
(email available on request!)