Them Apples
Posted on May 06, 2005
I've always disliked how my photos load in the browser, too choppy and it bugs me when the text gets shifted down the page. Looks darn unprofessional. Flash is cool, but a little out of my reach. The alternative, javascript. I'm getting ready to change servers (and hosts) so I'm having to go through and reinstall all the applications I use here, one being an updated version of Noel Jackson's slick PhotoStack. The current version (2.1b7 at the time of this writing) uses a script that gives a cool flash-like fade-in of your photos that I was able edit and use in MT. More info from the code author here.
(note to people reading via RSS reader, I can't get this to work in the feed so you need to open the post in a browser to see the magic.)
The above photo care of Philip Dyer (John Sypal and myself) was taken at the end of our photo shoot/trek from Kitasenju to Nippori on Wednesday. My film's sitting on the bookshelf, and will be getting on that real soon. John and Guy (1 and 2) have theirs up, with more to come.
And on another note, it almost killed me but this site finally validates (for now). Valid XHTML 1.0 transitional baby!
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Congrats on validation, i'm suitably impressed. Thanks also for posting the link to remind me about all the cool options for sites..., now i have such a flash hotrod machine i am getting inspired to recode and redesign. I get these flashes of inspiration but then they fade again... hope this one sticks around long enough for me to actually achieve an end result.....!
::posted by: martine Cotton at May 6, 2005 05:49 PM
Thanks Martine. All MT templates should have validated out of the box, but a few years of my bad coding habits ruined that.
PhotoStack should take you all of 5 min to get up and running. Very simple. If you need any help just give me a yell.
::posted by: mhegge at May 7, 2005 06:52 PM
