After ignoring CCK Multimage for a long time, I've decided to resuscitate it. The catch? It will reappear as a brand new module, freed from even more requirements. Originally, CCK Multimage was a fork of CCK Slideshow. It aimed to improve the latter on two counts: less requirements, and Safari compatibility (no, I'm not a Mac user). I like to think I achieved both of those goals on some level.

Drupal 6 presents new problems for CCK Multimage. First of all, Imagefield has more requirements that ever, and so does Imagecache. This makes CCK Multimage require many more modules than before. But more importantly, while I believe CCK in general is a great asset to Drupal, it can prove too powerful, and can easily be misused. It doesn't help that there's still no official release, 9 months after Drupal 6 was released. It's not CCK's fault; I understand it's a vastly complex module.

For these reasons, I've decided to remove the CCK dependecy. CCK Multimage will resurface as, well, Multimage. It will be enabled per content type, and provide a single picture or a slideshow for each node. The idea is to make it dead-easy for contributors to add pictures to their posts, something that Drupal lacks.

I'm open to suggestions, especially while I'm still brainstorming. Write a comment or send me an email.