Featured GigaPan

GigaPan.org Snapshot

GigaPan.org Snapshot

Over at the GigaPan website they have a dynamic front page that features panoramas from a user created, themed collection. These change periodically and can have pretty much any theme you could want, from panoramas created on a specific day, panoramas of an area to those associated with a public holiday.

Having returned from a pleasant few days away over the bank holiday I checked in on the world of GigaPans and was surprised to see my Armed Forces Memorial panorama staring right back at me. Thanks to Jeffrey Baker my panorama had been listed along with 37 other images as part of his ‘memorial day gigapans‘ collection to commemorate Memorial Day, a national holiday in the US marked on the last Monday of May.

To suggest your own collections of featured panoramas you first need to be a registered user of the GigaPan website, registration is free. Then send an email to illah [at] ri.cmu.edu with the following information;

  • name of collection,
  • curator user name (you),
  • id numbers of panoramas separated by comma.

Example
Lego
cidodd
542,4964,4983,4985,10993,11033,11160,22300

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Wordpress - Flickr: Nikolay Bachiyski

Wordpress - Flickr: Nikolay Bachiyski

WordPress was recommended to me as the best platform to speak from. I have enjoyed the interface that it provides and impressed with the customisation that can be done to the core blog by using the masses of themes, widgets and plugins.

I have seen many blogs that are so crammed with a multitude of social networking integrations, stats, badges and other add-ons that they distract from the written posts. I am trying to minimise the ‘junk‘ around my blog and keep it as clean as possible.

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