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New Features Added to Ninjalane

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Over the past several weeks I have been working hard to update the Ninjalane website so to support some new features I have planned.  The first of those updates has gone live today and consists of ... *drum roll* ... an image gallery. 

On the surface an image gallery isn't "that" special but it was done for a variety of reasons.

  • To allow readers to spin thru all of the images quickly.
  • Allows "us" to attach captions to each image.
  • Another way to promote the article.

The Ninjalane CMS always supported doing something like this but due to time constraints during initial development I tabled the feature and figured I would come back to it.

The second update is more cosmetic and changes the way the enlarged images are viewed.  In the past I used a JavaScript method to open a smaller browser window and loaded the image in there.  This process worked great but it was very difficult for google to index and really isn't the cool way to do things anymore.  So, to spice things up I have replaced this method with a customized version of Fancybox.  Fancybox is a jQuery script that will expand the image when you click on it and shrink it down when you click again (along with tons of other things)

Give these features a try and let me know what you think. 

Related Web URL: http://www.ninjalane.com/gallery