I'm really excited to be typing the first post on our wysiwyg editor - CKEditor, the next generation of the popular FCKEditor. This is the third rich text editor we've tried and I have to say I'm really impressed.

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We've chosen Slimbox to provide a javascript lightbox effect. it's clean simple and very lightweight. It provides not only features for viewing an enlarged version, but has a slideshow feature which works nicely.

It's based on our favourite javascript Library MooTools and at about 4kb it's very lightweight, with a code-design that makes it very simple to implement. There are a great many Lightbox clones out there, but I found this very simple to use, and they've made the effort to upgrade to Mootools 1.2, so I had no extra compatabilty headaches.

More details can be found on the SlimBox website

Why have we chosen to call our new Blog Product Figaro? When discussing what the Figaro is and how it should work I had one of those high-low cultural inspiration moments. 

I kept thinking of a line from Peter Shaffer's Amadeus film of 1984. there was a scene where the young mozart is trying to justify to Emperor Joseph that he is writing an opera out of Beaumarchais' Play 'the Marrriage of figaro'

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Torsten has built a sharp new looking video player.

The inevitable cheesipuffs movie

It can easily be embedded into blog post. you simply have to upload one of the supported formats, in same way as picture. We show many videos post with no problem

The Blog Administration recognises it video, and builds that render player when visitors look at blog. 

Currently formats are:

• Quicktime (mov)
• Flash (flv, f4v,m4v)
• Mpeg4 (mp4)