Regular readers will remember that I recently finished organizing all my digital photos. I made mention that my goal was to revamp the gallery section of the site. I'm happy to announce that goal is complete!

The new gallery section link is still at the top of the page where it's always been. However, the page itself has been re-organized to more easily find categories. I've also condensed the number of galleries, as having 5 pictures in their own gallery seemed a bit silly. In the future I'll be saving pictures up until I have a decent amount to collate into a new gallery. The other thing I'm happy about is that all the galleries now have the same look and feel.

For one-off pictures I'll just embed them into each entry. Hopefully that doesn't cause any problems for rss readers. I'll have to watch the file sizes. I guess I'll find out when I acutally get around to doing one.

I make mention of it on the gallery page, but will mention it here as well. The galleries were all created using the built-in creation tool in Photoshop Elements 6. All of the templates in that program create galleries that are flash based. This means that they will probably load slower than the old ones did. However, the file sizes are smaller in general and there is an option that can be turned on for dail-up connections. I'm not sure how it'll run over the net as I do everything local, but hopefully it's not too terribly bloated.