Okay. That took way too long, and I’m still not done, but I’ve finally reached a stopping point after spending all week updating my gallery (mostly just taking pictures of my non-digital art and organizing the crap out of everything). I also realized 2 really annoying flaws of Coppermine:

1. The order of pictures in albums has to be set globally, and you can’t set a custom order for the few that don’t match the majority (it’s currently only a per-user and per-session thing … wtf).
2. There’s no way to rename uploaded images.

This meant that in my flurry of activity, I forgot to name files in the order I’d originally created them, and as a result had to delete my whole portfolio, rename each file locally, and then reupload. And lose all my descriptions, view totals, and ratings, which = blah. Hopefully this post will bring back some of what I’ve lost?

All I need to do now is scan a couple autographs and export some jpegs on-campus (my laptop doesn’t have certain expensive fonts and is too slow for the trial version of InDesign), and then take pictures and scan a few things at home, and then I should be done. Oh yeah, and see if I can find any of my art that’s mysteriously not where I thought it was …