As promised, the Portland pictures have been uploaded. I’m still far behind on commenting all the pictures, but eventually I will get to it. While uploading the pictures, I couldn’t help but feel that browsing the pictures on this site was a sub-optimal experience. And so I started tinkering with the gallery and working a bit on the interface. Well, about 12 hours later I ended up with something that I was actually quite happy with. I’ve upgraded the gallery to the latest Menalto 2.3 version, and then spent several hours tweaking a new gallery template to work well with the current site design. But the best feature of this latest release is the integration of the PicLens module, which really shines when a slideshow gets invoked. So while you might not notice a lot of difference while browsing the pictures in a regular manner, although I hope you will given the time I’ve put into it, you should see the biggest difference when using the slideshow. A couple more changes you will notice is that now you can view the latest comments that your fellow visitors have left on some of the pictures. Further, pictures tags and descriptions are now searchable and may occasionally show up in your search results. A couple more pointers: 1) The slideshow button and latest comments buttons are located in the left-top corner of the album pages, just below the breadcrumb trail. 2) If the slideshow does not seem to load, you might need to disable your firewall, for I have found that firewalls tend to be iffy at best when it comes to javascript. Anyhow, I hope with all these changes you’ll be able to enjoy the pictures a little more now!
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