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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. ...

Another try at cleaning the flickr css (ugh) and javascript (sucks). What I did was to remove the javascript and index the thumbnails directly. I could put the links back in for each thumbnail but I’m thinking not. Rather, I would put a bit-o-javascript to have the thumbs control a larger portrait just to it’s right and a text box with the flickr description just below the thumbs+picture. There would still be a flickr badge linking to the original set. ...

I’m looking at adding my snaps to flickr. Here’s a few from my trip to Hyderabad last year. It was a glorious day on the Deccan Plateau. The flickr code is bloated and if I decide to keep it, it’ll need a css trim. Again, it seems a bit large for the sidebar but perhaps an alternate 2 column set will work. www.flickr.com <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="10" border="0" id="flickr_badge_wrapper"> <br /> </table> </td>