Site Update - New Photo Gallery!

Hello all.

Still no updates on the bike, but it’s today that it should be back up on the stand and getting fixed, so tomorrow (my day off! HOORAY!) I can update you as to the progress of the bike.

But aside from that, I stumbled across something which I have been looking for since I started this website, and that’s a photo gallery! I wanted one that I could update easily, look smart with wee thumbnails and be customisable. I trawled the web back in 2006 for one and couldn’t find any that were decent. I looked again in 2007 and I think the stumbling block was that I wanted to integrate it directly in to the website, which wasn’t really possible as the company that runs this blog service, WordPress, don’t allow Flash. So I gave up again and resorted to linking to various pages with images on it. Very laborious and not very easy to access.

BUT FEAR NOT, for the other day when surfing Motorsickle, I noticed they had a gallery that was powered by a place called Flash Nifties and it was everything that I wanted. I thought that I had to buy it, but at $40 it wasn’t too much, but then I noticed that they give a free version, with the only drawback being that they place a small [?] in the top right of the gallery to advertise their website. So feck it, I got the free one and tried it, and what a revalation! It’s superb, all you do is upload the folder to your server and start adding folders in to the Content main folder. The folders then become the headings for the gallery and it automatically creates everything else, the thumbnails, the animations etc. It can also be completely customised so you can change the colours, the sizes of everything, the timings for the animations!! It’s brilliant.

So to check it out for yourself, head on over to the official YamYam Photo Gallery.

Thanks for looking folks!

Gordon