It’s now even easier to view GCBA photo galleries. The GCBA website is built upon the WordPress.com blog platform which recently added new functionality that provides a slideshow of gallery photos.
For example, see our gallery of Glen Wesley’s impressive scroll work and fireplace screens samples. All photos in that gallery are displayed in a slideshow at the top of the page. The slideshow starts automatically once all photos are downloaded to the page (which may take a few moments).
The slide show window is sized to accommodate the tallest and widest photos in the gallery. If you mouse over the slideshow window, you will see controls to pause the slideshow or manually advance to the previous and next slides.
A complete list of the photos in the gallery is displayed below the slideshow. Click any of the images in the list for a higher resolution version of the image and to sequence manually through the gallery. Once you click an image in the list, that image is displayed on a separate page. After clicking on an image:
- You will notice that immediately below the current image are displayed thumbnails (miniatures) of the previous and next images in the gallery; simply click the thumbnail images to navigate forward or backward through the gallery.
- You can easily return to the related gallery page by clicking on the gallery name above the current photo.
- You can click the current image again to view it in its full original resolution.
These features have now been implemented in all GCBA photo Galleries. Check it out. It should make browsing GCBA galleries much easier.
(Many thanks to the developers at WordPress.com and to Dave at Vault9 for responding to GCBA’s request to expedite this new functionality.)
Posted by Dan Delph 
Early Tools & Tool Collecting
Do you have an idea for an article? Are you interested in or know of someone who may be interested in writing articles for the Anvil’s Ring or Hammer’s Blow? Then the ABANA Publications Committee wants to hear from you. Our publications are the definitive journals of the craft and in order to make continuous improvements the ABANA Publications Committee is soliciting the membership for articles.
If your interest is in “How To Articles” for the Hammer’s Blow, and you have found a “new” useful tip, tool you made and want to share how it’s made, a new idea on an old technique, step by step process for forging something that is not easily understood or any other ideas you may have on something you think “should be published” in the Hammer’s Blow… then this is your opportunity to “Get Published”.
Either way, whatever your interest, an article for the Anvil’s Ring or for the Hammer’s Blow, contact the Publications Committee by using the email address provided: 
ANVIL’S RING – TIMELINE – 2010
WINTER ISSUE
The usual route for submitting an article is to the editors of the Anvil’s Ring and the Hammer’s Blow. If you submitted an article in the past that didn’t get published, pull it out of the dusty corner, polish it up and try it again by contacting the Publications Committee. The article that was submitted and didn’t get published may have needed a little help and the ABANA Board of Directors is ready willing and able to assist in developing, polishing and generally working with you to help make your article worthy of publication.
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