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I’ve wanted to build a simple gallery viewer for some time. “But there are thousands of already built viewers,” you may be thinking. Yes there are. But I wanted a simple viewer that was at once trés snappy and minimalist. I dislike the gallery systems that open another window or create a floating panel which must be dismissed. I wanted a simple picture portal with simple thumbnails. I wanted something that didn’t require jacking javascript or event listeners directly into the html. It had to be easy to use with wordpress. ...

When I moved to wordpress, I purposely picked a theme with paged listings. Of course, I also started with the latest v. 2.7 release. (Actually 2.7 rc2, then an upgrade). The paged navigation at the bottom of the content section did not work. I tried to install the wp-pagenavi plugin but wordpress complained that the anjing theme had already defined wp_pagenavi(). I’m new to wordpress (and don’t know PHP well) but I do know how to comment out code. ...

I finally made the jump from moveable type to wordpress. The hardest step was porting the old posts. Whereas I created posts using UTF-8 encoded characters, moveable type did a dumb convert of the characters into Latin-1 when storing them MySQL. Since the path out of the database and to the page was a reverse process, when viewing pages the characters would reappear as UTF-8. However, when exporting the data from moveable type, the round-trip was broken. The characters in MySQL were not really proper Latin-1 characters. None of the recommended processes I found through google worked for me. I’ve had to deal with this problem at work last year. The memory of that pain makes me flinch. ...

I haven’t made many visible tweaks to the redleopard site since June. This isn’t to say that things weren’t going on ‘behind the scenes’. Here’s what’s happened. ...

I made the css change in less than a month. It consisted of two changes. ...

I’m sick of the Red Leopard style sheet. Expect to see a new CSS. ...

I’ve spent the past several nights getting my sister site up and running. After cursing MT, I’ve come to love it. I’m hooked. ...

About the time I decided to convert the redleopard site to a blog, I switched back to the Mac. That’s when my problems began – but not for the reasons you may be thinking. ...