Archive for April, 2007

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iMP Auto Slimbox, A Lighter Lightbox

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007 I came across the iMP Auto Slimbox in my Google Alerts yesterday, and it was a plugin that immediately caught my interest. I have tried a couple of Lightbox variants for my images over the last couple of months and must admit to having failed to gain any real success in using them. But they do look really cool, so I hadn't yet given up all hope. The first big advantage I saw I could gain with this particular lightest of the light Lightbox clones was that it would automatically add the "rel" attribute (rel=”lightbox”) to my images, even working retroactively to add the values to all my previous attempts. This was a bit problematic as I had fiddled quite a bit with some of the code for these images, some having the rel=”lightbox” attribute already added which I think caused some confusion. Having added it to my Sandbox site and finding it very easy to set up and use I have now added it to this site. This post is in part a test, I am writing it via BlogDesk and I will test this time whether the plugin will add the values to the picture in this post or if it only works in the online "Write" page of the blog.

iMP Auto Slimbox *Edit: Apparently it only applies to images posted directly from the Admin area*

iMP Auto Slimbox



Out With The Old, In With The New

Sunday, April 1st, 2007 So March has blown by, I cant say as my challenge for last month of a comment a day went totally according to plan, but I did post more comments than I otherwise would of done so that's not so bad. :wink: For April I have set myself the challenge of getting this blogs look more finalized, if you have visited before you will notice that I have changed themes again, this theme is based on the RockinSuckerfish by Nathan Rice of RockinThemes.com, but I have adapted it fairly extensively with my own preferred colours. I have also added "Sweet Titles" and I have moved around the RSS and changed the date/authors name layout. That was all in the CSS, I have also added a couple of extra plugins such as "smileys" for the comments and a tag cloud of my categories for my sidebar. Also as a final touch (for now) I moved Robs Translator from my Sandbox site to here, you can see it at the very top of the page on the left hand side. I hope you like the new look, please let me know what you think in the comments, also if you notice any problems that I may have overlooked. Thanks. :grin:

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