30th
It’s Alive!
<img/> stack has been something I’ve been working on for a while. It was originally built back in 2006 when I started developing Cupid’s Lab (http://www.cupidslab.com).
I was solving the problem of my inability to design user interfaces. Typically I would prototype a UI in the platform I was building. It would start as a basic HTML page with content linearly running down the page in a waterfall of text and images. Over time I would tweak and mold the html to present the data in some sort of organized form.
Most of the time I was tweaking the size of cells and images on a page. This would often lead me to have to recut or batch process images to fit the new size. That’s a workflow nightmare. Especially for someone like me who is indecisive and will change something hundreds of times before I think it’s _right_.
This brought about the creation of <img/> stack. I wanted to simply request the image based on how I needed it for the page and just expect it to be there. Cropped, resized, centered… I didn’t want to have to go back and forth between photoshop and batch processing scripts.
So now I’ve decided to take a few hours and build a standalone service of the tool set I created for Cupid’s Lab. I hope you enjoy it!
