tl;dr

A simple static website for an art gallery using completely client-side dynamically generated HTML.

Introduction

The repository depicts an example of how a simple static website (in this case an Art Gallery), could be made to dynamically generate HTML on the client's browser using Javascript and JSON.

JSON Item Attributes

This section covers the attributes necessary to the working of the website located in the server/data/catalog.js file:

$ cat server/data/catalog.js
catalog = {
  "A View of Mount Fuji Across Lake Suwa (Lake Suwa in Shinano Province)": {
    "fname": "Lake_Suwa_in_the_Shinano_province.jpg",
    "fpath": "/images",
    "gal_width": "320",
    "gal_height": "213",
    "itm_width": "1024",
    "itm_height": "681",
    "price": "$1000",
    "cart": false,
    "medium": "canvas",
    "size": "40x26",
    "units": "in",
    "id": "#012"
  },
  .
  .
  .
}

Above we can see all the attributes necessary for each item to work with the Javascript source code (located in server/scripts). The structure of the catalog.js file is simply a dictionary of dictionaires.

You will notice the name of the item (e.g. A View of Mount Fuji Across Lake Suwa (Lake Suwa in Shinano Province)) is the dictionary key, and the value is itself a dictionary of attributes.

These attributes are all used in generating the HTML dynamically in the client's browser. Below we will discuss each attribute:

• fname: The actual filename on the hardrive for the image
• fpath: The directory path where the file is located
• gal_width: The width of the image displayed in the gallery.html page
• gal_height: The height of the image displayed in the gallery.html page
• itm_width: The width of the image displayed in the item.html page
• itm_height: The height of the image displayed in the item.html page
• price: The price of the item
• cart: A true/false value to allow cart checkout for item
• medium: e.g. canvas, giclee print, etc ...
• size: Size of the piece
• units: Units used by size attribute
• id: Unique numerical item identification number