On a sidenote, this site is best viewed with Firefox or any other modern browser. It’s using K2 on WordPress 3.0 and the gallery is now served by NextGENGallery which offers much better integration with WordPress.

The only thing you may notice now is that the commercial ads are now no longer in the sidebar but at the bottom of every page. They’ll show on the gallery as well now, wich is a huuuuge advantage seeing how nobody clicks them anyway no matter where they are located The thing is, they actually are pretty relevant 3 out of 10 times so you may wanna click them every once in a while. Keeps me going you know, being a poor student and all

Now, about the tags. These will allow you to browse through my photo’s in an entirely different way. Tags are like keywords or labels that apply to individual images in the gallery. You’ll see these listed along with the photo’s if you visit the gallery now. Clicking on any of these tags will show you all images with that tag from the entire gallery. For instance, you’re browsing through “Rome, Summer 2006″ and you see a photo of the Colosseum. This will have, you guessed it, “Colosseum” written below it. Clicking on “Colosseum” will then show you all photo’s of the Colosseum, from “Rome, Summer 2006″, as well as from “Rome, Autum 2006″, etc. How nifty. That’s not all though. There’s a new link in the navigation bar that says “Tag Cloud”. The tag cloud is a collection all (or the most popular, if there are too many) tags. The bigger a tag is printed in the tag cloud, the more images it has. Again, clicking on a tag will show you all images with that tag.

I’ve decided not to assign every imaginable tag to my photo’s. That means that if there’s a photo of a tree, it will not be tagged ‘Tree’. It will simply remain untagged. This is because there would be so many photo’s that could have the tag ‘Tree’, that more relevant tags (like ‘Colosseum’) would be snowed under and the Tag Cloud would become useless. As for different names in different languages, I’ve chosen the way mapmakers have used for decades, if not centuries. Things are tagged with their original name (St. Peter will be tagged with ‘San Pietro’) unless the English name is significantly different from the original name (Not everyone will know or understand that the Italian’s call Florence Firenze, so it will be tagged ‘Florence’).

I’ve added the ability to subscribe yourself to a mailinglist. It’s a bit unrefined because I don’t have the tools available here I would have if I had done this at home. Anyway, if you sign up, you will receive an email everytime I write something on this site. Watch your spamfolder though: if you’re spamfilter is set to tight, mails will end up there! Be sure to mark it as normal mail if this happens so future mails will end up in your inbox!

To subscribe, click here. Enter your name and e-mail address and click “Subscribe”. You will receive a confirmation email. Click the link in that email to confirm your subscription or you will still not receive any mails! Again, check your spamfolder if you don’t see it in your inbox.

There are 38 images from this trip in the gallery. Not exactly a large number if you consider I was there for eight days, but I’m a little more selective about what I upload and what I don’t upload then I was before, and aside from that I don’t have much time to post-process the photo’s anymore, so I spend my time on the best. Also, I’m almost done with the photo’s from Schiermonnikoog, you’ll have them tomorrow.