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As I have mentioned before, the gallery is mostly powered by Lightbox.js. I've made a couple of changes to Lightbox 2.02 in order to make it work for the IVRPA site:

Quicktime VR content

The original Lightbox script only supports images. Ours supports still images and Quicktime VR. Others have made similar changes, and I'm sure mine are a bit more hacky than some of those. But it looks nice ;-)

Image scaling

If an image is too large to fit in the current window, it is now scaled down to fit. No scrolling necessary to view the whole image. Quicktime VR files are automatically extended to fill the screen.

Nearly there... The still image gallery is now online, and every member can post up to 8 still images.

Check out the neigh-magical lightbox trickery in the gallery; click on a thumbnail to get some scriptaculous ajax goodness. Don't forget to hover the image, you should see prev and/or next 'areas' to get you to the other images.

Other things to look for are tag clouds to explore the images that will be posted on the site by all members. The tagclouds are a bit partial to my tastes right now, because I am the only one posting stuff. But they should get a lot more interesting, giving an idea what software and/or equipment is used by the IVRPA membership.