Xarg blog Archive

I added a clipboard for users to collect images up for printing and tied to in to the shutterfly.com C4P system. It was actually pretty easy to do and the photo-album stuff is almost to the point where it's usable. I still have to do some "over the shoulder" usability testing and there are some shortcomings with the print ordering that I would like to correct but all in all I am pretty happy with it.

People talk about web services as being great things and it seems like publishig a web interface for places like shutterfly would have a great ROI for them but remarkably very few photo fullfillment vendors seem to have a usable web fullfillment interface. I only found out about C4P from the gallery source code, and I think without knowing it was there you would never find it.

I found fotango here in the UK actually lets you email your images in as attachments which might be an option as well but it seems a little clunky. C4P (which is simply a HTTP POST interface) seems to be a very simple workable answer.