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I’ve been busy with blog stuff, just not posting. I’ve got a few blog related projects in the works that I’ve been working on.
One is related to my weekend activities. This past weekend was the Good Guys Nationals at the Ohio State Fairgrounds. Acres full of over 6,000 pre-1972 American (mostly) hot rods. Unlike last year, I spent this year’s Good Guys mostly on my own, although I did meet a friend for a couple hours. I was there for about 5 1/2 hours. I tried to leave a couple of times, but there was another area to explore … There were hot rods of every type – muscle cars, resto-rods, rat rods, lead sleds, 50’s style customs – you name it it was there. It was pure gear head heaven.
I said that a blog project was related to that and there is. I wanted to put my pictures up on the site, but I wasn’t happy with the gallery generated from Photoshop Elements 3.0. I looked at the 3 differnet gallery software packages available through my host, but was pretty dissapointed. Most stand alone gallery software simply produces a pretty lame looking grid layout. I did some searching and finally found the Photo Gallery plug-in for Movable Type 3.2, based these Templates from Stopdesign. A nice clean look and powered by MT.
So I spent much of the rest of the weekend setting up the new Salguod Gallery. I moved my 2005 Good Guys Gallery over to the new interface and I’m in the process of posting my 2006 pictures as well. There were a couple over 100 for 2005, I’m closer to 150 for 2006, so it might take a bit. All done, go take a look!
There are still a couple of bugs to work out, like why the first two posts in the 2006 gallery appear twice in the thumbnails, but mostly I’m very pleased. The other cool thing is that you can leave comments on the individual photos. So correct me if I’ve mis-identified any cars. I did try to be better about taking notes as I shot photos, but I missed a few and some had no tags.
I’ll might put other galleries up as well, like my Auto Show pictures from Detroit each January and T’bird stuff, we’ll see. I’ll need to put a link in the sidebar too, but I’m planning on re-doing all that soon anyway. For now, just go enjoy the Good Guys stuff.