Well, I finally got around to re-designing this site, after four years with the same old. I think this new design is cleaner and cooler while still maintaining the minimalist look I favor.
It’s running, of course, on the most excellent WordPress blog platform, while the photo gallery uses Gallery. The two are combined using the WPG2 WordPress plugin, which allows (after some tweaking and hacking of code) a nice, seamless integration of these two great open-source applications.
I created the nifty slideshow header by writing a small PHP script that utilizes an existing slideshow script, which in turn uses the Mootools Javascript class. You gotta love those crafty programmers who give away their code and help me look good.
All the slideshow images also exist in the gallery. The slideshow creates a randomized array of all files in a specified directory, and then iterates through them with that cool pan-across, fade-in transition effect. The initial image is created by grabbing a random single image and cropping it to an appropriate size for the header using PHP.
That’s about it. Should you so desire, please let me know what you think.