July 14, 2006
Sporting Life photo blog
A photo blog celebrating the sports we play and the competitive spirit that comes with them.
We launched a blog called
The Sporting Life earlier this week. By customizing the
Photo Gallery plugin for Movable Type, our soundslides are displayed where the pictures would be. This took a little bit of back-end coding and customization, and the photographer still has to copy and paste the Flash code in place of the main photo.
A great feature about this plugin, however, is its use of
ImageMagick, a program that quickly converts larger images to great-looking thumbnails. The thumbnails serve as navigation for the blog. The photographer doesn't have to worry about resizing and uploading thumbnails to the server, but the Flash files still require manual uploading.
The colors were chosen from the
Color Schemer Blog because they meshed well with the
roanoke.com look. I've since downloaded the Color Schemer Studio (trial version) to develop another series running next week.
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