Aloha and welcome to the mini-site for my Maui Photo Day Calendar Google Gadget.
I'm working on a few bonus features for fans of our daily calendar gadget, so stay tuned for those coming out sometime in the near future.
In the meantime, check out the links and posts below to learn more about this gadget, my other work online, and a look into why I love Maui so much.
Mahalo,
Kris Nelson
The Inspiration
New Project Idea: Online Photo Day Calendar
Posted at
webnelly.com on Nov. 17th, 2008
What an afternoon of random ideas. During a rather slow drive home from work, I started thinking about new site designs for Ka'anapali Dreamin' and came up with a few goodies. After some quick browsing for inspiration and a handful of pencil sketches, I arrived at something woth throwing together in Photoshop.
Getting ready to fire up the laptop, I soon became distracted by yet another idea while looking at one corner in my office at home. You see, I have been a fan of the Islands Gallery Day Calendar
for a few years now, and whenever I come across a day that features Hawaii, I put it on my wall.
As you can imagine, one would gather quite a few of these over the course of 3 years (I'm counting 39 so far, with a few of them practically duplicates). And in all of that time, I had yet to think of using my own photos to create an online version. But for whatever reason, today I did.
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The Release
New Maui Photo Day Calendar
Posted at
Ka'anapali Dreamin' on Dec. 15th, 2008
This week's update is actually not an update to our website, but an update to your home page! What exactly does that mean?
Well, we've added a Maui Photo Day Calendar as a new Google Gadget that you can add and customize on your own iGoogle page. It will display a different Maui photo every day with a short description and the current month and day. It's a small little gadget, so it won't take up much space. Yet it's still large enough to share that warm, Aloha feeling.
Another great thing about this day calendar is that all our photos are hosted on Flickr. That means, if you see a photo you really like, you can click on it, view the photo page and read comments that others have posted. If you also have a Flickr account, you can leave your own comments, too.
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Under the Hood
Flickr Idea: Making an Online Photo Calendar
Posted at
photonelly.com on Dec. 29th, 2008
I said it before, I love being a photographer and a web developer. Here's another reason why.
Making an Online Photo Calendar
What started as an idea in mid-November turned into a relatively easy to make Google Gadget to showcase some of my favorite Maui photos. And all it took was:
- a little preparation,
- some convention,
- and 2 Flickr API methods
Sparing all the minor details, here's the jist of what I did.
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