On Jul 6, 2006, at 12:50 PM, John Francis wrote: > On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 11:06:00AM -0700, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: >> >> I'm not a fan of the "vertical or horizontal scrolling thumbnail list >> next to individual image display" concept, however. It always feels >> crowded to me. I'd rather see a page of thumbnails and be able to >> click on one or another individually to appreciate them with minimal >> distraction. While there, I should have back and forth, and "return >> to thumbnails" display navigation. So I'd eliminate the "Album" view >> and stick with the Lightbox. > > I'll offer up an opposing viewpoint: I really dislike galleries > where clicking on a thumbnail replaces the thumbnail page with > an enlarged view of a single image. I prefer to keep the thumb- > nail images available - ideally in a separate window, but if > that isn't possible then as a horizontal or vertical sidebar.
I've tried both methodologies ... thumbnail gallery that spawns picture pages vs thumbnail gallery that is replaced by picture page. From watching people using it, I find that the latter produces fewer moments of frustration than the former with most users. I think the reason is that most people tend to use the browser "back" button a lot rather than navigation controls. Spawning a display window either requires clicking back into the gallery page window or using a keyboard combination to get back to it if you don't use the "close window" keyboard command, where most people are very accustomed to "click link - back button - pick another link" etc sequences in their normal perusal of web pages. There's also the question of what to do in the spawned window with regard to navigation controls, which can lead to having multiple pages open that don't go anywhere further, or that are all displaying the same web page in the end. > I guess this just goes to show that it's hard to come up with > a display presentation that satisfies everybody. Yes, I agree. :-) I invite comments on my website gallery page design ... I'm working on posting the pieces from the recent exhibit now and can experiment with deviations from my current design. Here's an existing one to try out: http://www.gdgphoto.com/sparse-01/ Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
