- Consultancy's Dirty Little Secret
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I'm sure to be cast out of the secret sect, but data management is not really that difficult. There, I said it.
Leveraging Cloud Photo Storage
Here is where the client keeps their own Picasa albums:
https://plus.google.com/116436246369189441172/photos
Here is where the photos from one album are repurposed for a web site gallery:
http://www.longbeachantiquemarket.com/index.cfm/photos/
There's no additional upload required. A ColdFusion script reads the XML data from Picasa and uses the data to display the same photos in our own web page. The script was then bundled into a Mura component for use within the CMS system.
In this example, the client is fond of the gallery format from Adobe Labs Spry for Ajax Framework.