The British Academy loves Fellowship!

Now, if the American Academy takes this to heart, our little movie could be the big winner!

Site administrators can now limit the maximum size of images uploaded to their site.

For instance, if an image larger than 640×480 is loaded into my site, it automatically gets scaled to fit in that size.

Who would have ever predicted this!

Here’s a couple of photos from our party.

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From left to right:

• The chef gets our feast ready
• John Madden would be jealous
• The Pats are moving the ball
• We blocked a field goal
• Oh My GAWD! We Won!

The NFL today used part of the score from Fellowship!

During the pregame show **NFL Today** on NBC when they were interviewing various players of the New England Patriots, the music in the background was from the *Concerning Hobbits* part of the Fellowship score.

The Fellowship of the Patriots??

The Empire Awards are kind of like the People’s Choice Awards for Great Britain.

Members can now choose a picture to display on documents that they create.

In the Member Preferences, there’s a new field in the form called **Avatar**. Put the name of any picture that has been loaded into the system, and the thumbnail for that picture will be included on each document that you create.

Newline is going to make some great posters for Fellowship.

One poster has character names on it, and one doesn’t. Here’s your chance to tell the execs at Newline which you like better!

Word has it that this will come after the voting for the Oscars.

It’s supposedly going to be quite a bit longer than a standard trailer! Should I got a fifth time? I think so!

Word has it that this will come after the voting for the Oscars.

It’s supposedly going to be quite a bit longer than a standard trailer! Should I got a fifth time? I think so!

All images loaded into a Vanila site now have thumbnails automatically created.

###What can you do?

* Choose to have all images displayed as thumbnails by default, clicking on the image to see the fullsize picture
* Choose to have all image displayed full size by default
* Choose on a per image basis whether or not it should be viewed as a thumbnail
* Choose on a per reference basis whether or not an image should be included as a thumbnail.
* The max height and width for a thumbnail are configurable

On my site right now, all images are by default thumbnails, with certain images overriding that default.

###How’d I do this?

I’ve made use of the mogrify command from the “imagick” suite, which must be installed for this to work. Each time an image is loaded into the system, I use mogrify to scale the image to be within the max height and width from the site prefs. This image is then loaded into the database alongside the fullsize image.

What do you think?