cgm225 Posted June 12, 2007 Share Posted June 12, 2007 I have coded my own media gallery for photos and videos, and I wanted to get some community feedback about its appearance and usability. See my albums Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
s0c0 Posted June 14, 2007 Share Posted June 14, 2007 Usability seems good, but it doesn't catch the eye as some of the other more established ones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiamProductions Posted June 16, 2007 Share Posted June 16, 2007 The template needs work on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cgm225 Posted June 18, 2007 Author Share Posted June 18, 2007 @Liam -- That is the worst feedback ever. Can you give me some specific things to work on? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ober Posted June 18, 2007 Share Posted June 18, 2007 I think it's pretty good... the only thing I'd suggest is adding more functionality options. 1) Ability to show more than 6 per page. 2) Ability to do next/previous without clicking the page number (show next/previous links/buttons). 3) Open "zoomed in" view in new window or use a flashier way to view the larger images. 4) Use preview images on the "category" page. 5) Make the "currrent page" more obvious. It's pretty good... just needs some sprucing up! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cgm225 Posted June 18, 2007 Author Share Posted June 18, 2007 Now that's feedback I can use.. thank you so much!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cgm225 Posted June 19, 2007 Author Share Posted June 19, 2007 @ober - Thanks again for the feedback. I have implemented features to address your #2 and #5 points, and will continue to work to add the additional features you mentioned. However, I had a general question for you (or anyone in the community) with regard to your #3 point. How do you deal with presenting large photos in general.. I mean ones that do not lend themselves well to being put within a website wrapper? What do you mean by "'zoomed in' view?" Do you have any examples? Thanks again! cgm225 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ober Posted June 19, 2007 Share Posted June 19, 2007 I like this type of implementation, personally: http://www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox/ By "zoomed in"... I'm assuming that the image you're showing in the gallery isn't full-size. If you click on it to get a "closer" view, you should show the image in it's full size. Post again when you get more of the stuff implemented. Good job implementing the current stuff. One thing you might want to think about is limiting the number of pages you show for selection. So if you have 40 pages in an album, you only see 2-3 pages on either side of the page you're on. Example: 1 2 3 > >> << < 5 6 7 8 9 > >> I'd use single and double arrows to "jump to next" and "jump to beginning/end". EDIT: you'd probably want to use small gifs for those instead of the actual > character. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cgm225 Posted June 21, 2007 Author Share Posted June 21, 2007 @ober - I have modified my pagination to reflect some of the behavior you outlined in your last post*. Also, I have changed the script to add the functionality you suggested in #1,2, and 5. Some follow-up questions I had.. Currently, my gallery does not crop pictures for thumbnails, but resizes them, so that lightbox script does not exactly fit my needs. My earlier question was more asking how you deal with providing the largest picture size in a gallery when it does really fix the dimensions of the webpage? Also, I have not forgotten about your fourth initial suggestion (to "Use preview images on the 'category' page"), but am still researching some things before I implement that (like, how best to generate rounded thumbnails with imagemagick, etc.). Thanks again for your feedback! Please let me know how you feel about the modifications I have made, and any other improvements I can make. However, with that being said, I do what to keep the gallery/overall site very simple/minimalistic. cgm225 *I chose to use "<<" and ">>" to move from the front and back of the gallery, respectively, but kept the "Previous" and "Next" links (instead of "<" and ">") because I think they are more obvious and usable. In general, I don't think regular people use the "<<" and ">>" functionality all often often. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ober Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 Excellent work Can I make another suggestion? Increase the number you can show per page. On a fast connection, it's reasonable to assume that I'll want to view 25-50 per page... or hell, maybe even all the images. Because by the time I look through the first few, the rest will be loaded. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andr923 Posted July 3, 2007 Share Posted July 3, 2007 thanks for the link to lightbox Ober. I checked it out, then decided to navigate to the projects folder by deleting the last part of the http://. the same guys actually has lightbox2 which kind of blows the old one away! http://www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox2/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ober Posted July 5, 2007 Share Posted July 5, 2007 Ahh... sorry I linked you to the old one. I knew there was a new one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emehrkay Posted July 6, 2007 Share Posted July 6, 2007 check out squeezebox and reMoooz http://digitarald.de/playground/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ober Posted July 6, 2007 Share Posted July 6, 2007 That's some AWESOME stuff. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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