If you’ve visited this blog the past day or so and clicked on most images, you likely have noticed that a “lightboxed” version of the full resolution lays over the page and fades out the actual page. I ended up installing the Lightbox 2.0 plugin earlier this week and have been quickly appending as many previous entries as I could with the extra image code. The main reason I did this was so I could post thumbnails of screenshots and let readers see the fullsize images without having them open new windows or tabs.

I made a decision to not add the functionality onto images larger than 1024×768 because I don’t want someone’s screen to be overwhelmed. So far, I have adjusted entries as far back as October and plan to be done by Monday. I hope this addition enhances the experience and doesn’t slow things down too much. (Posts that were written in the PTO days either have their images still on WP.com or Photobucket so they may load a little slower than those from January 2007 and after.)

A more cosmetic update is rotating banners, something I have wanted to do for a while now. (I actually got it to work with the Dark Ritual theme when I was still figuring out the initial look for the domain move back in December but the categories weren’t the way I wanted so I chose what I’ve got now.) The plugin I am using is called Header Image Rotator, created by Matthew Hough, and I have set it to change switch out headers every minute.

Currently I have four banners uploaded including the one with Edward that has graced the top of the blog for the past six months and I’m trying to make that total reach about twenty in the next couple weeks. More variety is better! One gripe I have with the settings is that the interval choices are Minute, Half-Hour, Hourly, Daily, and Weekly. I would rather have 15 minutes as an option because that’s not as often as every minute but shorter than a half-hour. Other than that, it was relatively easy to set up with a couple of CSS edits so my next task is to make more banner images!

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