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Montage Maker

Montage Maker

Montage Maker is a fun tool that lets you create large, colourful montages of any topic using images sourced from the internet. Not only is it an interesting way of browsing the net, it can also be used to create desktop pictures or even posters.

Things to try:

  • Use the settings to change the grid size of your montage
  • Change the size of your montage by resizing your browser window
  • Want to publish your montage? Check 'Creative commons' to make a montage using images that have a Creative Commons license.

Note: This tool was previously called Montage-a-google but has been updated to fetch images from Flickr instead of Google – which is more reliable and faster to fetch a range of image sizes. Also, this version no longer requires the Flash plugin.

Open Montage Maker

Example montages

View photos tagged with 'Montage-a-google' on Flickr to see more examples of what other people have made.

An example use

These colourful posters were made by one user for their children's bedroom.

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Finally moved to WordPress

You may not have heard of them, but there’s these new things called Content Management Systems (CMS for short) and they’re really taking off.

But seriously, after putting up with my old-school, manually-managed site (designed back in 2003) for far too long, I’ve finally moved the bulk of my site to WordPress. I’m hoping it’ll make it easier to update this site more often, as well as letting people leave comments on my project and portfolio pages – something that wasn’t possible before. I can’t say it’s been a painless transition – relinking the images was a real pain, but now most of it’s done I’m relieved.

I’ve kept a few pages outside of the CMS just because I’m doing ‘special’ PHP tracking stuff on them, and Google AdSense is doing a fairly good job on them at the mo so I don’t want to fix what ain’t broke.

Since my last post I’ve changed jobs and had a baby, so should have some new stuff to post about. Expect more here soon!

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