I spent the better portion of an hour and change this morning grabbing most of my photos off of the livejournal gallery and moving them to my newly established gallery here.  (Nevermind how much of a pain that was to get working).  You’d think that as big as LJ is, they’d make it easier to get the pictures in a simple download rather than having to go to each full-size one and saving it to the hard drive.  That’s what really took so long.  Getting them here once they were downloaded… pretty easy.  

Speaking of the gallery, it’s running on a WordPress plugin (tested a bunch of them, actually).  I liked this one the best.  It accomplished what I wanted it to do.  But in order to get the lightbox functionality, I would have had to install *another* plugin.  I’m a big fan of having certain functionalities hard-coded.  (Excessive plugins seem to slow WordPress sites down).    So, that’s what took so long to get it running.  The theme files now are hard-coded for colorbox.  While I was at it, I also did the same thing here I did with Halfton 1.1 – internalized the Java to the WordPress core and also added in the Superfish drop-down menu.  (Someone complained about my lack of menu drop downs since moving away from iNove).

It’s funny, my friend Mitch (another designer) and I got to talking – we’re both now officially “jQuery whores” – if there’s a script to do it, we’re stealing it.  =p  (Most of them are GNU/GPL licensed, so it’s not really stealing.)

Speaking of Mitch, we’re discussing the possibility of a joint collaboration on a WordPress theme.  He’d do the graphics, I’d do the coding.  We’d then submit it to themeforest.net and hope to sell a few.  Split the proceeds and all.  Dunno if it’ll happen.  I’m still experimenting with a few things, and I think I want to do a “premium free” theme for submission to the WP database first.  We’ll see.

Anyways, that’s it for now.