There’s always something to howl about.

Here’s a little slide show to play with . . .

Start from this page. What you should see is a self-running slide show of seven photos and their captions with manual controls. Now go to your browser’s preferences and turn off Javascript. Refresh the page. Now you should get the same seven photos and captions stacked up vertically. More than 98% of all web browsers have Javascript by now, but the super-lo-tech version also serves as the search-engine-spider-readable version of the text.

(If either of these things don’t happen, let me know. Also, don’t forget to turn Javascript back on.)

I didn’t build the slide show. I have one that I built years ago, but this is a lot richer. We’re integrating this with our content management tools so that every new page we build for a listing from now on will be built as this kind of either/or slide show. All of the pages will be site/appearance-independent, also, because I want to build all of my new sites as WordPress weblogs. The look and feel of these slide-show pages will come with the weblog template.

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