David,
The new one is better...shows off more picture.
Regards, Bob S.
On 6/20/05, David Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I made some spare time and had a really quick first cut at improving
> the page. What I really need to do is get away from the computer and
> start over with pencil & paper.
>
> This is just a static file for testing purposes. I've completely
> removed the outer border, lightened up the background and enlarged
> the picture to 500 pixels height (it'll easily fit within 1024x768,
> including the remaining border). For reference, the photos on my old
> site are 600px high and these will also fit... if the browser has
> small buttons. I may go to 600px if the file sizes don't become too
> large.
>
> http://www.bluemoon.net.nz/photo/temp/temp.html
>
> For comparison the old one is still at:
> http://www.bluemoon.net.nz/photo/printsdb/view.php?print_id=96&t=PAW
>
> I think it's a little better but it still needs a lot of work. The
> info stuff at the bottom is annoying me now, and I'll need to fiddle
> with the grey as it's still a bit dark. I'd really like to keep at
> least some kind of border to separate the picture from the
> background. But that's unlikely to be coloured, and will probably be
> even smaller than what I've done today.
>
> Bear in mind that I want the same basic design to work for portrait,
> landscape and panoramas so it's not going to be easy.
>
> I had a look at the links you sent and they all have their ups &
> downs... but I certainly don't need convincing about neutral
> backgrounds. That was the first of my original design decisions
> (then I went and put in those coloured borders, sigh... that was
> related to my picture framing).
>
> My old PAW index (link too long and my mailer will munge it) is
> something simple I slapped together and I don't actually like it
> myself. My new PAW index is a little more polished but now I think
> that background is too dark as well. If you strip the "&mode=PAW"
> bit off the URL you'll see the "gallery" view which is a different
> way of doing much the same thing but you don't get the info. Please
> note the PAW mode was done specifically for PDML who I assumed would
> like to see more technical information than the general public would.
>
> Cheers,
>
> - Dave
>
> http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/
>
>
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