Okay, so today I’m gonna walk you through how I messed around with “the waltons photos”. Sounds simple, right? Well, let me tell you, it was a bit of a journey.
First off, I started by just grabbing a bunch of images I found online. I mean, a lot of images. I literally just googled “the waltons photos” and started saving everything that looked vaguely useful. No real plan at this point, just accumulating data, you know?
Then, I needed to wrangle all those images. They were all different sizes, different formats, some were blurry, some were awesome. I fired up my trusty image editor – yeah, the free one – and started resizing and cropping. Tedious? You bet. But hey, gotta start somewhere.
Next, I thought, “Okay, what am I actually doing with these photos?” That’s when I decided to try and build some kind of slideshow. I figured it would be a fun way to relive those childhood memories, you know?
So, I started looking at slideshow tools. There’s a ton of them out there, but I wanted something simple, something I could just hack together myself. I ended up using some basic HTML, CSS, and a tiny bit of JavaScript. Nothing fancy, just enough to flip through the images every few seconds.
I struggled a bit with the JavaScript part. I’m not a coder by any means, so I had to do a lot of copy-pasting from Stack Overflow. But eventually, I got it working. The images were changing, and it looked… decent. Not professional, but decent.
Then, I wanted to add some captions. You know, give each photo a little context. So I added a text file with descriptions for each image and then modified the JavaScript to read those descriptions and display them below the photo.
That took way longer than I thought. Dealing with text encoding and making sure the captions matched the right images was a real pain. But I got there in the end.
Finally, I added some music. Because what’s a slideshow without a soundtrack? I found some royalty-free country tunes online and added them to the slideshow using HTML5’s audio tag.
And that was it. My “the waltons photos” project was complete. It wasn’t perfect, but it was mine. And it was a fun way to spend a weekend.
Lessons learned?
- Starting with a simple goal is always a good idea.
- Don’t be afraid to Google everything.
- JavaScript is still kinda scary.
- “The Waltons” still rocks.
