Yesterday I played with the latest plug-in I have installed on this blog. Called “NextGEN Gallery” I have had the plugin installed on my other site for a while and had not had the chance to use it. I figured that it would be more use here so I have installed it. I find it really easy to use and have not really figured out all the settings yet. The basic gallery is show on a blog post or page as follows:


If you click the PicLens link it will load in CoolIris, which is a nice way of browsing the images (and any other images or videos on a site). If you have the CoolIris firefox plugin it will load in 3-d. The images are not so nicely sized for CoolIris as it makes them bigger. However, I sized the images for a slide show and not for CoolIris.

If you want a more slide show look, you can install the plug in “NextGEN Smooth Gallery“. I hate to link to that site as it looks quite bad, but at least the plugin is rather cool. Using the smooth gallery makes the gallery look like: