On Thu, Dec 8, 2011, at 07:48 AM, Mark C wrote: > Thanks, Brian - I'll look through the archives for that discussion about > image size, I'm sure there's interesting info there. I'll take a look at > Matrix as well, that is not one that I remember trying.
I don't like the 'boxiness' that Matrix produces with its default settings, but the "Boxless, Large Thumbs, Caption in Side Panel" version shown on this page has a very clean look which I find appealing. http://matrix.earlyout.org/ Cheers Brian +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Australian Native Plants Society (Australia) http://anpsa.org.au > > On 12/8/2011 1:34 AM, Brian Walters wrote: > > > > 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 all of your messages and folders wherever you are -- 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.
