It’s been a while since I fiddled with this blog, but you may have noticed a few minor aesthetic changes recently:

1. Post images now have a black border, instead of silver. Where these images function as links, they have a small inner border that is normally black but silver on hover. Why? I think photos look better framed in black than silver. Nuff said.
2. I’ve also resized these images to fit better with the new borders. This may result in a short delay for some visitors as the software generates a new image on some posts, but once it’s cached it’ll be speedier.
3. I added a new widget – Quick Flickr widget in this case. Some fiddling with CSS was required to display my latest Flickr images satisfactorily; big thanks to mgdm for also having a poke through all the PHP and fixing me up with a way to discern between landscape/portrait/square aspects.
4. The Twitter widget is gone. I don’t tweet as @socialphoto very often. To be honest, I only got the account to reserve the name once I bought this domain. If you do want to follow me on Twitter, I’m @jkblacker.

There are more changes I want to make, some smaller than others. I’ve got two more exams this week, and then I’m done and free to make some stuff happen on here.

Oh, and I also removed a link from the ‘Sites I like’ because of HDR related crimes against photography.

Update, 19/5 – Following something of a spike in traffic, I’ve finally found a decent related posts plugin that works with YAPB. The previous one was for some reason duplicating YAPB images, so I didn’t use it. In a twist, it was called YAPRPP or something like that – yet another ‘yet another’ plugin. But I digress. I’m now using Contextual Related Posts, which seems to be doing the job pretty danged well.