Frank's Photo Album Archives

Fill in whatever fields of the search box you wish.

The checkboxes in Type of album are inclusive or additive. So checking "Places" and "Events" show all entries having a places or events tag (or both, i.e., a logical OR operation).

The Tags field is the only one that will match the words individually. All other fields will try to fit the search term exactly as it is. So for all other fields, if two words are entered, it will search for a string that has those two words one after the other with a space between them (or two if you put two spaces in the search).

The tags search returns results that match all of the search terms (i.e., a logical AND operation). So, use a single word as a tag to cast a broad net, and add further tags to restrict the search.

The Country field is usually the full name of the country. I have added USA as an abbreviation for the United States, and UK for England. I know UK includes Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland too, and when I visit those countries, I will probably update the code, Note that typing "US" will match "USA", "Australia", and "Austria". I consider that a feature.

All searches are case-insensitive.

The And/Or radio buttons mean should this search term be ANDed or ORed to the existing search terms. The default is AND (which is more restrictive).

There is no way to change the search order currently. The Description field is what is in the short description when there are matches. Again, the line is taken as a single-item exact match.

Clicking on the More details part of the result will show the various metadata that is associated with that album. It might provide other search terms or phrases I might have used to describe the album.

I am aware that this, as well as the rest of the site, likely looks terrible on a phone. I find phone layouts to be terrible in general, and looking at photos on something the size of your hand can work in a pinch, but it's kind of terrible. I don't have any great ideas on how to make it better, and I'd have to support Android and iPhone, when the reality is that essentially no one is going to be looking at these pages other than friends and relatives.

I'm using a bit more CSS here, but no Javascript, as it's really not necessary.