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Gallery Page Updated By Using Slimbox!

Posted By: BioTecK on Saturday 8 August 2009 with 10 Comments

Time for a new post.. Yeah, this are very busy times for me as I’m getting married on the 4th of September! We still have 3 weeks to go and we still have to arrange some little stuff so that’s why this blog doesn’t get updated that much!
You can visit our wedding blog at: BJ-Alborz.com for more information and updates on our wedding! :wink:

Anyway, in the meanwhile I had some time to update the gallery page! A lot of people and friends didn’t liked the way the gallery worked and asked me if I could change it… I actually hadn’t thought well about this so I had to look into it. The problem was that I used the build-in gallery option in Wordpress and linked/opened the picture in the attachment page. By doing the whole site needed to be reloaded over and over again which is actually pretty annoying and slow, right? So I had to look for another option.


A picture of Jannie and me on our holiday in El Gouna (Egypt).

After giving it some thoughts and playing around with a dozen of plugins, I actually found the perfect solution: Slimbox!
Slimbox is a visual clone of the popular Lightbox 2 script and to be honest.. this wasn’t actually what I was thinking about when I started but I really like this plugin! :roll: It works really simple (download, install and you’re good to go!) and it’s really fast.

Now you are able to view and navigate between the pictures in the gallery very quickly! Give it a try and let me know what you think! :mrgreen:

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  • Twitted by BioTecK said:
    8 August 2009 at 20:35

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  • Nicole said:
    9 August 2009 at 12:16

    Hey there, good to see you two :)
    And good to see you are still blogging and getting ready for the big day ;)
    Gallery looks great and it works fine!

  • william said:
    12 August 2009 at 07:45

    A very nice looking and well-organized gallery page. I can’t wait to see your wedding pictures in the gallery page! :)

  • Ben said:
    14 August 2009 at 01:40

    Hey great news about your upcoming marriage. I haven’t had much time recently to read blogs.
    But I am hoping to get Tenacious Creations back up and running so i was making sure all the links work and ended up here. Good to see your still blogging.
    I just hope I can start regularly blogging again.

  • Madeline said:
    14 August 2009 at 16:57

    Behrad and Jannie,

    Congrats on your upcoming wedding! I wanted to check out my ad on your blog and then I read about your wedding! Jannie says she would like to visit the U.S. and I would like to reccommend Chicago! Chicago is a very friendly multi-cultural city with great muesums, resturants and entertainment. If you come, I will be your own personal (and free) travel agent! :)
    Once again, congrats!
    Madeline

  • Rose said:
    22 August 2009 at 18:11

    Thanks…keep update
    nice blog…
    Dorp EC Friends

    Aceh Barat

  • free softwares said:
    23 August 2009 at 10:58

    Hey nice design you are really great designer
    Wish you very happy married life
    :smile:

  • Louise | UPrinting.com said:
    2 September 2009 at 03:37

    Oh, the gallery looks great.
    And good luck on the wedding. It seems a lot of couples are getting married nowadays… odd since June has ended already… :D

  • Wedding Website said:
    6 October 2009 at 00:48

    the gallery looks great

  • BioTecK (author) said:
    1 November 2009 at 12:41

    Thanks a lot everyone! :mrgreen: