Few days off ??? Just may seems like that ;) . In fact I was hard working on re-design of my site. I completely changed its color suite and added few features to make it better, funnier and hopefully also more useful. Anyway I’ve spent few days playing with colors, matching them the best way I was able to, lines, images and so on.
One of features I’ve added was NextGEN Gallery. At the very beginning I used d13 gallery, later just regular images. But few weeks ago I was working on site powered by WordPress where nice gallery was required. That’s how I got to NextGEN. And I was surprised with possibilities it offers.
Although at the beginning it seems to be little confusing in usage (what is defined as gallery and what is album) once you get into it goes very easy: creating galleries, uploading images, editing them. Once you have images in gallery you can insert them into post with just one command


. You can also create page which hosts all albums but I didn’t need it on my blog since I add pics to particular posts.
What I really DO like about it is possibility to open full size pics using lightbox effect (it requires installing Lighbox 2.0 plugin -> I‘ve written about it) and a slideshow with really cool effects while viewing (I’ve decided to use bubbles :D ).

bubbels_effect.jpg

I had only one problem with it -> [show slideshow] link was floating to right side and pushed down last thumbnail (to my surprise in Opera browser! Usually IE causes such problems ;) ). But I managed to fix it changing original code in nextgen-gallery/css/nggallery.css:

.ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box {
float: left;
}

to

.ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box {
margin-top: 10px;
align-text: left;
}

And done.