Okay, Blogware users and wanna-users, here's a new feature that made it into version 1.0. If you have a Blogware blog, open the Blogware Control Panel in a new browser window and log in. Once you've logged in, click on the Settings tab of the Navigation Bar.


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Take a look near the lower right-hand corner of the page, near the bottom of the Options sidebar. Notice a new checkbox -- the one marked Enable Slideshows?



That checkbox, Gentle Reader, is the gateway to mesmerizing photoblogging coolness. Checking that checkbox enables Blogware's new slideshow feature. Now your readers can choose to click through each picture in your album, or have each one presented to them automatically as a slideshow.

Let's take a look at a photo album I recently posted on my personal blog: one featuring my photos of a billboard near Queen Street West. Here's what the photo album's main page look like.


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Notice the icon above the photos? That's the slideshow icon. Clicking that icon opens a new window containing the slideshow. The slideshow starts, displaying all the photos in the album (click here to start the slideshow):
 

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The controls along the top of the window control slideshow playback. Each photo in the album is shown for a short period of time (which can be set to 1, 3 or 10 seconds), after which the next photo is shown. Once the slideshow finishes showing the last photo in the album, it starts over from the beginning.

We know that the slideshow works fine for the following browsers:

• Windows
• Internet Explorer 6
• Mozilla 1.6
• Firebird 0.8
• Netscape 7
• Mac OS X
• Safari  1.2
• Mozilla 1.6
• Firebird 0.8
• Netscape 7
• Linux
• Mozilla 1.6
• Firebird 0.8
To whet you appetite for this slideshow goodness, I've created an example photo album for the Blogware blog. You can click on that link to go to the photo album, or if you'd rather just jump straight to the slideshow, click here.

I'm going to have a lot of fun with this new feature.