Adam R Brown

You may have noticed a new feature on my site. At the very top, off to the right, you’ll see five little colored squares. Each one is a closely cropped image from my PicasaWeb photos. If you mouse over the little photos, you’ll see the full size photograph appear, along with its caption and the name of the album it’s in.

I use PHP to grab the images from my PicasaWeb account and to randomly select five of them. Then I use JavaScript to place the images on my site and make the mouseover effect.

Maybe if there’s demand I’ll post a walkthrough sometime. If you’re determined, you can figure out the JavaScript by looking at my HTML source. But the PHP is trickier to figure out–especially the bit that randomly selects an image.