Hello,
First post here (I joined to eventually glean info on DIY large format builds so this is a bit of a departure, but it might be useful to someone...)
I've long wanted an easier way to manage an image heavy tumblr gallery style blog on my small-biz website - something that didn't mean having to wade through html every time an update/edit was required.
Recently I sat down with ChatGPT and got it to write me a browser based manager and tbh it's not a bad effort. There are some quirks, but generally speaking it works rather well. This is the kind of blog/journal that it helps me manage:
https://www.smallscalecnc.co.uk/journal.html
I can simply add articles, re-order them, include photos, image grids, youtube embeds and have a fair bit of control over how things are displayed using specific syntax.
It's an offline tool, so intended for folks who manage their own website and have the ability to upload content to their webspace: you work locally first and then upload the updated journal.html file and any additional photos to your server via ftp (or whatever you use...)
To get started open the Journal Studio.html file in a chromium based browser (I use Chrome) and then click Open Journal (select journal.html) to learn more and see how stuff works, the syntax to use etc.
I'll upload a .zip file here. Extract the contents to a 'master folder' - this will be where your journal lives and (importantly) the journal.html file will look for the journal-images folder when linking to images. Journal Studio doesn't generate a journal web page from scratch - you absolutely need to use journal.html as your start point, delete the existing articles and start adding your own.
Once again, there are quirks and there's a specific way of doing things - this was largely dictated by keeping the software browser based as opposed to being its own proper little app.
Anyway, give it a go if it sounds like something that might be useful to you - I'd be interested in a bit of feedback etc. and answering questions about what you might consider potentially weird workflow...
Best,
Wal.
First post here (I joined to eventually glean info on DIY large format builds so this is a bit of a departure, but it might be useful to someone...)
I've long wanted an easier way to manage an image heavy tumblr gallery style blog on my small-biz website - something that didn't mean having to wade through html every time an update/edit was required.
Recently I sat down with ChatGPT and got it to write me a browser based manager and tbh it's not a bad effort. There are some quirks, but generally speaking it works rather well. This is the kind of blog/journal that it helps me manage:
https://www.smallscalecnc.co.uk/journal.html
I can simply add articles, re-order them, include photos, image grids, youtube embeds and have a fair bit of control over how things are displayed using specific syntax.
It's an offline tool, so intended for folks who manage their own website and have the ability to upload content to their webspace: you work locally first and then upload the updated journal.html file and any additional photos to your server via ftp (or whatever you use...)
To get started open the Journal Studio.html file in a chromium based browser (I use Chrome) and then click Open Journal (select journal.html) to learn more and see how stuff works, the syntax to use etc.
I'll upload a .zip file here. Extract the contents to a 'master folder' - this will be where your journal lives and (importantly) the journal.html file will look for the journal-images folder when linking to images. Journal Studio doesn't generate a journal web page from scratch - you absolutely need to use journal.html as your start point, delete the existing articles and start adding your own.
Once again, there are quirks and there's a specific way of doing things - this was largely dictated by keeping the software browser based as opposed to being its own proper little app.
Anyway, give it a go if it sounds like something that might be useful to you - I'd be interested in a bit of feedback etc. and answering questions about what you might consider potentially weird workflow...
Best,
Wal.
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