Basically for the Next Gen Smooth Gallery plugin to work, I have to resize the images. I was hoping to avoid this as I’d like to link to the full size ones but so far no-go… I think there is a way to link to the wordpress galleries as well…

The following gallery is coded:

smooth=id: 8; width:530; height:500; timed:true; delay:6000; arrows:true; carousel:true; transition:fadeslideleft; links:true; info:true; align:center; frames:True; open:true; text:Pictures;

[smooth=id: 8; width:530; height:500; timed:true; delay:6000; arrows:true; carousel:true; transition:fadeslideleft; links:true; info:true; align:center; frames:True; open:true; text:Pictures;]

Smooth Gallery page

[smooth=id:xx; width:xx; height:xx; timed:xx; delay:xx; transition:xx; arrows:xx;
info:xx; carousel:xx; text:xx; open:xx; links:xx; margin:; align:;]

id: The id you were already using on [ gallery=id ]
width: Width of your image container
height: Height of your image container
timed: true/false to slideshow your images
delay: Time in miliseconds before moving to the next image
transition: Animation when moving to the next image: fade, fadeslideleft,
continuoushorizontal, continuousvertical, crossfade, fadebg
arrows: true/false to see the arrows for next/previous images
info: true/false to show the image description
carousel: true/false to see all thumbnails
text: Text relative to the Carousel
open: true/false to show the carousel opened/closed
links: true/false to click on the image and open the original image alone
margin: Distance from the gallery border to the text
align: Gallery alignment: left, right, center, float_left, float_right

…then again , I think its mostly true…

iPad Envy.

Scott brought in his iPad today and I fell in love. The comic book app and the Popular Science app were everything a new publishing platform could ask for.

Honestly I think those things alone are going to make this puppy worthwhile.

Testing the NextGen Smooth Plugin which uses NextGen galleries

[smooth=id:9;]

Apparently it doesn’t resize originals leaving the author the chore of resizing everything to fit the display box; I think not… oh well. I am thinking though, that the Next-Gen Plugin is less valuable than the shadowbox one for posts rather than pages anyway. This likely means I will disable the plugin sometime in the future so don’t be surprised if no pics appear in this post…

So check out the new Condo Page for updated and ongoing condo pics and I’ll reserve shadowbox for the in-post stuff…

Because of the vociferous complaints of one unusually loud and bossy individual who I dearly love and am afraid to disappoint, mostly because she’ll hurt me again, even though I did punch her in the face, but that really isn’t relevant and should never be mentioned again, and really she isn’t that mean, unless you count the time that… but wait, you don’t want to hear about that again, because it’s not like we all don’t know just how scary she can be without trying, or at least without trying too hard, I am moving my longstanding blog from its home on my desktop to the big old scary internet.

Welcome to macblaze.ca

I will spend the next couple of days fixing links and making sure it runs smoothly, but there have already been some hiccups.

Note: this server is case sensitive in it’s links…

The History of the Internet is a neat article to browse, and it gives a good idea of how far we have come in such a short time…

I’ve added a domain name (macblaze.ca) and am currenty hosting it on GoDaddy. What I need is to get the connection string for the mysql set up and Dreaweaver is giving me errors. MYSQL Error #1251

I eventually came across this post which gave me a working string:

< ?php //Sample Database Connection Syntax for PHP and MySQL. //Connect To Database // $hostname="your_mysqlserver.secureserver.net"; // $username="your_dbusername"; // $password="your_dbpassword"; // $dbname="your_dbusername"; // $usertable="your_tablename"; // $yourfield = "your_field"; // mysql_connect($hostname,$username, $password) // mysql_select_db($dbname); ?>

So far so good?

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Nope…

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AFAIK Dreamweaver just ain’t gonna work… sigh….

I added the Next-gen gallery plugin with instructions by David Potter. I had to disable the images in theShadowbox JS plugin to avoid a disconcerting double effect.

Examples of usage can be found here.

Here’s a gallery of random climbing pics…
nggallery id=8 (in square brackets)
[nggallery id=8]

nggallery id=8, template=carousel
[nggallery id=8, template=carousel]

Now lets see what we can do about making this an easier process. Apparently WP 2.8 changed its insert gallery process so you have to save the post first. Then id you wait a moment, the gallery tab appears. Not to useful as it doesn’t allow you to upload first and gallery later. Nor does it expose the code you to add the rel=”shadowbox”

Study in Travelators…

If, however you have the Image Links set to true on the Shadowbox Automation section of the Shadowbox Plugin Settings, then it will auto-sense the images and give you a slideshow without any of the options. Not optimal, but better than having to code everything by hand just to show a few images.