Posted by Susan Bugher on 07/30/06 02:12

Michael Laplante wrote:

> I creating an html archive of photos. At this point, the photos have yet to
> be sorted -- it will take months if not a couple of years to get through
> them and they aren't in any order yet, some may arrive later, etc.

That sounds somewhat like my family photo project. I had masses of
photos - a lot of them weren't dated and the date order changed as I
pieced the "jigsaw puzzle" together.

> Assuming for a second that I create one html "wrapper" for each image, at
> some later date I want to sequentially link the files AFTER they have been
> created. (Makes sense I hope).
>
> Is there a tool or a technique that will let me do this easily in one fell
> swoop rather than hand code each file? Preferably the program / technique
> would let me "insert" a file between two others at some later date (or redo
> the whole batch again in one swoop).

Warning! I'm a spreadsheet junkie. . . ;)

I have ALL the info about my family photos in a spreadsheet - including
the order of the photos - and generate all new HTML pages when needed
(about 10 photos and descriptions per page rather than just one). The
process is spreadsheet data to .csv file, import the .csv file to
Treepad and save, import the Treepad file to Keynote, export from
Keynote to individual text files, rename the file extensions from .txt
to .htm. Despite the number of steps its a fast process. FWIW - I create
dated ordered sets of all the photos AND date ordered sets for
individual family members.

If you're comfortable with spreadsheets I think that would give you
maximum flexibility and be fastest in the long run.

OTOH. . .

If you don't anticipate a lot of changes you could start with Keynote -
create each of your HTML "wrapper" files on a separate node and export
them/rename the file extension to .htm as above (the node name becomes
the name of the text file when you export). When you know the order of
the files add lines that link each HTML file to the next HTML file and
export/rename the files again. Inserting new files would be easy -> add
the new HTML file and change the link in the file that precedes it.

dunno if the above is enlightening or confusing. . . feel free to ask
questions if any of it sounds at all interesting. . .

Susan
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