I just wanted to share this really amazing and easy to use gallery script.  I am going to be putting it in my new website using a wordpress plugin that uses its scripts.

The name is highslide and it has several uses.  It allows for easy display and cycling of pictures and images you post in your pages.  You can cycle through different pictures with the keyboard and even move the display boxes anywhere you want.  The display boxes have a number of different graphical effects including drop shadows and glows.  He also includes some really great ajax popups that you can embed html content, flash content, ajax content and iframes into.  For a demo of all these features, go to the official website here.

There are a number of wordpress plugins using this.  I’m not sure if they all work, but here are all the ones I found on a quick search of the extend category of wordpress.org:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search.php?q=highslide

Aside from highslide, I found a pretty cool article about creating attractive and well designed blog post headers or just website headers in general.  They have a pretty large list, including one example from one of my favorite blog designs "veerle’s blog."  You can check out the article here.