I then realized that I could use the same system that I programmed for the background images for Webplayer demos and have a custom script take the first image of every game and, with some magic, make it a faded greyscale image. The result of this afternoons work thus far is depicted in the screen below:
The new profile layout, with shadow effects and a greyscale background image
I was pretty happy with the results, and my next step was to open up screenshots in a lightbox when clicked. After browsing through open-source lightbox solutions, I am now about 50% of the way completed with the following setup:
The newly integrated screenshot lightbox setup
This lightbox solution only supports images out of the box, but I will be making modifications to support video and html as well. I'm considering changing what happens when you click any cell in the page; rather than expand the cell to show information, I may have it load html into the same lightbox container that currently loads the screenshots. This could provide the end-user with a very easy way to scroll through cells, since this lightbox is also swipe-enabled. We'll see how things go, and whether or not the lightbox solution works better than the current one.
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