Just a quick post to say that I’ve added one of our advertising campaigns that form part of my Pocket Wellies final project. I produced these so I thought I might as well post them up in my gallery. I’m keen on a career in advertising upon graduation so it makes sense to dsplay some of my advertising capabilities on my site. Feel free to check them out and let mo know what you think.

I also played around with the gallery settings to change the way the gallery looks but none of the different options look as good as the original so I decided to put it back as it was.

I’ve added a couple more new images that I’ve created in photoshop to my gallery. They are the new binary code background image I created at the weekend and also another binary themed image I’ve been working on over the last couple of days. I’m quite pleased with both of them and therefore thought it was worth putting them up on my site just in case any potential employers may want to view examples of my design work. I’ve produced these without a brief to work to as we have not covered any graphic design on my course but though it was worth experimenting indipendently in this field

I had a brainwave about how to make my flash slide show sidebar widget display the images at the right dimensions and therefore displays without cutting the photograph subjects heads off. I went into photoshop and resized a blank canvas to get the correct dimensions for the slideshow to correctly display the rotating images. I worked out that for the slideshow to fully display the images at the correct dimensions and proportions, it would need to be sized at 170 (width) x 240 (height) pixels.

I then went into the dashboard, then into presentation and widgets. Finally I configured the slidgshow sidebar widget in order for it to display at the above size. This produced the desired result and the slideshow in the flash sidebar widet is now displaying the images at the correct size and proportion.

P.S. I also removed the gallery widget from the sidebar as I found this rather annoying. I didn’t look as good as correctly sized slideshow widget and it did not add anything of use for the viewer, who can not only view the sidebar slideshow but also the full gallery which can be located in the navigation bar at the tom - A gallery widget is totally unnecessary.

As well as accessing my gallery at the top navigation bar on my website, I have also activated the flash gallery sidebar widget that came with the plugin. This means that you can now view my NewGEN flash gallery on my sidebar. Woop Woop!

I have now managed to get my flash gallery fully working. First of all I activated the plugin. Then I added a gallery title called Test in the new option “Add Gallery” that appeared on the dashboard. Then I uploaded my images I wanted to include in my gallery using the manage gallery option. Once this has been done you then have the option of entitling each image and also adding a description.

The gallery can be viewed on a new page that I have added to my site, imaginatively entitled “Gallery”. This can be accessed at the navigation at the top right of my site.