Wah-hey!
The site’s hanging together pretty well at this point. Let me give you a tour:
The Trail
Look right. That list of bullet points there is “The Trail”. It shows you exactly what we’ve been up to. It’ll show the images we’ve posted, the tweets we’ve made, the videos we’ve uploaded, the blogs we’ve written and the check-in’s on Bright Kite. It’s powered by the brilliant friendfeed, and lets you quickly see what’s new when you visit.
The Photo Section
Alas, a little bare at the moment, filled with only a few flags and a picture of my Yoshi toy at work. It shows all of the photos we’ve taken on our trip, broken down by location. There’s a nice little javascript plugin called “lightbox” which displays the photo at full resolution in a nice overlay. It’s all powered by Flickr, which will take care of hosting our photos as well as letting us upload with one button from iPhoto (09) on the lappy! No fuss, good results!
The Map!
The map is magic. Super voodoo magic! All of our photos on flickr are GeoTagged – meaning they have a location attached to them (thanks again to iPhoto 09). This map shows you where all of our photos were taken on the planet in a slick interface. Hopefully as we travel you’ll see a line of pin pricks showing a trail of photos, videos and tweets all sat on the exact location they were recorded. Powered by uMapper.
The Blog
You’re already here? Nothing too magical about the blog really, other than it’s powered by wordpress; and is the framework for all the other cool shit ™ listed above. Being wordpress powered makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside – a good thing, this weather being what it is…
To Come…
Videos – need to figure out the best video site, and how I can tie it into wordpress and the map. Also, an information section with a little bit more about the plan, goals and methods of the site. Lastly, I need to get Elee on here…hmm, perhaps something Disney?
Ciao for now,
Rob
