Monthly Archives: January 2008

A lightbox for your pics

Wordpress is great for words, but not brilliant for pictures. There are ways of integrating with gallery software and other tools, but they’re not very robust in a big multi user blog like ours. Instead, we’ve implemented a simple tool called ‘Slimbox’ which should give everyone access to eye-popping slideshows. It’s easy to use…

Publishing simplified

We’re pleased to offer locally installed Wordpress blogs as an alternative publishing method for University of Melbourne users.
Our blogging tool, Wordpress MU, lets us centrally handle a lot of the management tasks like upgrades, stats, themes, spam control and plugins, leaving you to get on with writing your content.
With simplicity come constraints, but if you find [...]