I would say, “you may have noticed the new link at the top of the page that says Gallery,” but I know no one has been to the site to see that. Sometimes when you first start a new website, things are lonely. I should probably send out the URL to this site so that I at least have the occasional friend or family member drop by to see what is going on.

So, anyhow, there is a gallery link at the top. It isn’t by any stretch complete: so far it only has the photos that we had on our old website – which are pictures of Will from his first several months of existence. I’m currently running software called Gallery 2 to manage the pictures, but I think I’ll change it out. Gallery 2 runs too slowly and seems like it will take a lot of work to get it to look good. So you’ll likely soon see it swapped out with photo album pages generated by JAlbum.

Malin has already started using JAlbum for her client galleries over at her photo blog. So we’ll likely start using it over here, too.

Some cool updates regarding our recent database disaster: the tech support guys at Sphere.com have been very helpful! Their site is a search engine for blog entries, and, as it turns out, they indexed Malin’s photo blog before our database crashed. After determining that they had processed her website and actually finding her website in search results, I e-mailed them asking if there was anyway they could send me their cached copy of the blog entries we lost. Today they sent us those entries – so a big nod and “thank you” to those guys. Unfortunately, they did not index this blog – just Malin’s photo blog. But it was cool that we were able to get some of our lost stuff recovered.

So stay tuned, and keep checking the gallery for updates. Eventually, it will have lots of our photos on it: our photographic records of Will’s childhood so far, as well as pics from all sorts of events (gatherings of friends and families, holidays, etc…)