by andyahnn posted on 02/21/2009 03:21:00 PM

Comments on Album

When you view an album there is now a new tab: "Comments" You can now add you own comments to an album. So go nuts, talk about the album event...etc

by andyahnn posted on 02/06/2009 04:00:24 PM

Slide Shows on Albums

A few of you have requested the ability to view photos as a slide show, and now your wait is over. There is now an option to "View Slide Show" on the top right corner of the photo grid, while viewing an album. Enjoy

by andyahnn posted on 01/19/2009 10:26:24 AM

Sick and tired of visiting the website to see if new albums are available?
Well now you can subscribe and receive email alerts when new albums are created.
Here are some benefits to creating a user account.

• You will now be able to download photos.
• Receive email alerts when new albums are uploaded/edited.
• Receive email alerts when news items are published.
• You can create and edit your own user account. A valid email address is required.

Added a new sorting for albums. Most views/Least Views.
The views are calculated by people viewing individual albums, and are re-calculated once a day.

What will I be working on next?
Well I would like to redo the actual viewing of a photo. It will be more of a full screen slideshow.
Also I would like to allow users to add people names to photos, and tag photos with information. This will allow more powerfull searches.

by andyahnn posted on 07/29/2008 08:26:24 PM

As I mentioned earlier the website has been in development for over 7 years. I would do small parts, then stop programming for a while. Every now and then I would get the "itch" and continue programming. However for the past year, I've seriously hunkered down to get the website up and running. I've removed features and worked around things and I believe the application is at a point where it's a good "Phase 1"

Why do this when there are other online photo services? Well for starters, I love to program, and often make small apps to help me do something. This is a method for me to keep up with current technologies. Often I will see something and say "hey thats pretty cool, I wonder how they did that". Another reason could be the blending of my love for photography, and my enjoyment in programming.. who knows I did have a good time rolling this project out. For the geeks out there, I used Java as the programming language with Hibernate, Spring, Struts on the back end. JSP / servlets on the front end. For the UI, prototype, scriptaculous, javascript and ajax were implemented.

For "Phase 2" don't hold your breath, I am going to take a few steps back and just maintain the website. (Brenda has been patient while I developed at home, and now I think I should spend some more time with her) What I would like to do is be able to tag photos with people in it. That way you would be able to search for photos that had "andy" or "brenda" in it. Not sure when this will be.

And finally, the webiste it self. if you go to atoned.org you will see a temp. page allowing you to select which portal to visit. Andy Ahnn and Harvest Church are your only two options. Most likely you will be going to http://atoned.org/andyahnn/albums. From there you can browse the albums, search and view photos. If you would like to read the help section, here is the direct link http://atoned.org/system/help.jsp

One thing to note, there are multiple starting pages for the website. You could visit the main area, or if you would like to you can see the latest albums that have been uploaded http://atoned.org/andyahnn/latest.This also is covered in the help section.

The photos on the website go back until 2000.

Enjoy, I will continue to upload photos.