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Hi, and welcome to my blog.

I will post a lot of things on it, but I suspect most of my post will talk about my passion which is photography in SecondLife.

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I have an idea...

I was wandering in SecondLife recently like usual. And I ran into some kiosks that allowed you to click a link or to buy an in-world copy of a magazine. I also noticed that most of the magazines look for a public towards clothing and their trends. And often consists of a 50/50 mix of advertisements and articles. So in the end I was pondering and building the spark of an idea I had, and I started experimenting. Now let's first tackle the idea. Let's imagine a magazine that although general, is a part directed towards the photographers in SecondLife. But on the other side it should also opens another view on places in SecondLife. The content I had for my eyes was more a mix of sim explorations that are photo attractive, model portfolio presentations, tips and tricks, and so on. I did experiment a bit with the software I had to see if I could come to a "blueprint", "draft", "sketch" of how I would see it. I spend some hours on it, and one of my first

Setting up a gallery (part 2)...

But then I also wanted to give my visitors some help while they were there, and I hate to use these hover texts. So I decided to use a nifty tool I could find on Marketplace, Furware Text https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/FURWARE-text/141379 for the awseome price of 0 L$, so yes a freebie. But this allowed me to build in-world text display on prims, which I could easy adapt and modify in text. And with that I made myself: A list which displays the pictures / models I currently show; Assign them a color tag; Place next to each picture a colored square to link them to the list; And put some help texts around the gallery without annoying hover texts; OK, it does require some basic scripting to make it work, but this is rather easy and straight-forward. Anyway, if you would need any help, or texts made for you, just contact me.