On Wed, Dec 7, 2011, at 07:55 PM, Mark C wrote: > I'm working on re-doing my website this winter, hopefully completely > nuking the old site and replacing it with something new. (I plan to > leave the blog in place, but will probably update the skin.) It's been a > while since I re-did things. Any comments on the following would be > appreciated: > > 1. Web Photo Gallery Software: For my last web update I used Photoshops > web gallery tool (now migrated to bridge) and lots of global search and > replace commands in Dreamweaver to customize and tweak the galleries. > Wild and scary stuff. I'd like to use a more simple approach this time - > any suggestions regarding web photo gallery tools? I don't mind paying > for something good, so I'm not just looking are freeware. I see that > Mark Robers still lists Web Album Generator on this website, it looks > like the PUG uses JAblum. I was thinking of going with a fancy flash > gallery but at chatting with someone recently I was told that flash was > sooooo passe' and besides, iPhones can't read it. Yee... what to do... > > 2. Image size: My current standard image size is 625 pixels wide or 500 > pixels high. That was pretty aggressive when I first started the website > in 1997... rather small by today's standards. I'm thinking of something > like 800 pixels wide for the standard view and click on that for a 1000 > pixel wide, in it's own screen, view. I looked at my user stats and > found that the top two screen resolutions were 1280 x 800 and 1024 x 768 > - I think that the dimensions I'm planning should work well with that. > > Any thoughts would be appreciated -
Yes- I'm using JAlbum for the PUG (as did Scott). I wasn't entirely happy with the Chameleon template because I wanted to be able to make the images 'clickable' so that images larger than the browser window could be shown full size in a separate window. This involved designing a new template, which looks a bit like Chameleon but there's no Chameleon code present. It works the way I want but I haven't yet worked out how to make multi-page albums with it. I'm not sure that JAlbum is the ideal tool for a 'professional' web site but there are plenty of templates to play around with and many are highly configurable. One that I like is Matrix, although I'm not keen on its default settings. If you're prepared to tweak the options, you can get a very attractive looking gallery. For my own site I designed the interface from scratch. I'm reasonably happy with it except that it's a bugger to update and the images are smaller than I'd use if I was designing it now (700 x 467 for landscape format and 400 x 600 for portrait format). When I get time I'll try to look at something simpler, maybe based around the Matrix template. The PUG uses a max of 800 pixels on either side but, after considerable discussion on this when I took over, images are displayed at a max display height of around 536 pixels so that they can be viewed without having to vertically scroll the image (that 'display height' can be set to any desired value within the template settings). Clicking the image produces the full size version. I think this works well - a lot of people don't like having to scroll images - they like to see the whole image, even if it means viewing at a smaller size. 800 pixels seems a reasonable maximum size. Cheers Brian +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Australian Native Plants Society (Australia) http://anpsa.org.au -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Access your email from home and the web -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
