Flickr Web Gallery
Website Design + Development
Jan 2008
Gracepoint Berkeley uses Flickr as a photo repository. Tags were used for sets to demarcate the different groups (eg, Kairos, a2f, Koinonia, SF, etc). Since Flickr does not allow tags for sets (only for individual photos), in 2007 I developed a caching layer — Flickr Sets by Tag — that sat between Flickr and Gracepoint’s public websites. This also dramatically improved performance, because the cache was stored on Gracepoint’s servers, rather than hitting the Flickr API for each call.
After the cache has been built, in early 2008, I designed and developed the front-end gallery. Using Mootools and History Manager (a beta extension at the time), I was able to develop a heavy javascript-based gallery that preserves the back-button and the browser history.
– website, frontend, mootools, backend, php