Over the last few evenings I've been able to add a few cool new features to Jinzora. Album Sorting, Google Ads, and YShout.

Album Sorting
We've added a new drop down box to the album list block on the artist page. This lets you with a simple drop down sort the albums by year (the default) or by name. It's pretty fast but we do plan on AJAX'ing it fully with the 3.0 interface.

Google Ads
Thanks to Wim for point out some very cool hacks that he saw (sorry I don't remember who right now!) to add our next two features, Google Ads (and YShout in a sec). You can specify your Google Adsense ID in the Slick settings file and show a nice little Google Ads block over in the left colum. It's even themeable, chaning style to whatever stylesheet you select. Yup, the default Google ID is our's - but it's not enabled by default.

YShout
Thanks go to Yuri at YShout for his help today. I was able to IM with him and get his YShout AJAX Shoutboard software embedded within a Slick block very quickly. Basically lets you embed a small simple chat window right inside Jinzora.

That's pretty much it for the upcoming build, 2.6. That'll be out this coming Saturday which is a big day for Jinzora ;-) Back to bug fixing...