You know WordPress 3.0 was introduced couple weeks back and I was so excited that Matt and their team have done a beautiful job of implementing “Featured Images”, which allow you to make a “dynamic magazine” style theme, while not hindering performance of your WordPress.
Before WordPress 3.0 was out, I had been using my own custom code, which uses ImageMagick to re-size images so I can fit them into my custom magazine-style theme.
But you know, it looked awful, I never liked it nor was it optimized. My blog loaded slow beca