Re: [WSG] Image gallery layout

2008-07-07 Thread Al Sparber
Good morning My client wants her image galleries to look the same (if possible) as on her Power Point Presentation. These images (in PPP) are positioned absolutely ie a certain cm measurement from top left in each case. The images are of paintings and are NOT of uniform size so I am working

Re: [WSG] Image gallery layout

2008-07-07 Thread Al Sparber
From: Al Sparber [EMAIL PROTECTED] Good morning My client wants her image galleries to look the same (if possible) as on her Power Point Presentation. These images (in PPP) are positioned absolutely ie a certain cm measurement from top left in each case. The images are of paintings and are

Re: [WSG] Image gallery layout

2008-07-07 Thread Lynette Smith
Thanks Al - the demo looks really nice! You could constrain the thumbnails you see on the page to a certain consistent dimension, using height and width or using overflow hidden and then show the thumbnail in its natural aspect ration on hover. That can be done with pure CSS. Additionally,

Re: [WSG] Image gallery layout

2008-07-07 Thread Lynette Smith
No problem, I'm glad I saw your demo. Thanks. I have followed Thierry's suggestion in this instance and am giving the client the option of a centred layout, or left or right aligned images. Sorry. Didn't see Thierry's suggestion. That should work for you if perfect symmetry is not a

Re: [WSG] Image gallery layout

2008-07-07 Thread Joseph Ortenzi
OT, no? On Jul 07, 2008, at 07:57, Al Sparber wrote: Good morning My client wants her image galleries to look the same (if possible) as on her Power Point Presentation. These images (in PPP) are positioned absolutely ie a certain cm measurement from top left in each case. The images

[WSG] Image gallery layout

2008-07-06 Thread Lynette Smith
Good morning My client wants her image galleries to look the same (if possible) as on her Power Point Presentation. These images (in PPP) are positioned absolutely ie a certain cm measurement from top left in each case. The images are of paintings and are NOT of uniform size so I am

Re: [WSG] Image gallery layout

2008-07-06 Thread Srinivas Gattu
This may help: http://www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox2/ On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 8:28 AM, Lynette Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good morning My client wants her image galleries to look the same (if possible) as on her Power Point Presentation. These images (in PPP) are positioned

Re: [WSG] Image gallery layout

2008-07-06 Thread Susie Gardner-Brown
I LOVE Lightbox! Only discovered it recently and am using it on a site I¹m working on. From an accessibility standpoint it is awesome. The only Œcomplaint¹ that another developer here found was that it doesn¹t detect the user¹s flash player version (as swfObject does), but that¹s a minor concern

Re: [WSG] Image gallery layout

2008-07-06 Thread Lynette Smith
Srinivas Gattu wrote: This may help: http://www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox2/ Thanks, Srinivas but it looks a bit too complicated for me - I was thinking more along the lines of a different CSS approach *** List

Re: [WSG] Image gallery layout

2008-07-06 Thread Lynette Smith
I LOVE Lightbox! Only discovered it recently and am using it on a site I'm working on. From an accessibility standpoint it is awesome. The only 'complaint' that another developer here found was that it doesn't detect the user's flash player version (as swfObject does), but that's a minor

RE: [WSG] Image gallery layout

2008-07-06 Thread Thierry Koblentz
My client wants her image galleries to look the same (if possible) as on her Power Point Presentation. These images (in PPP) are positioned  absolutely ie a certain cm measurement  from top left in each case.  The images are of paintings and are NOT  of  uniform size so I am working with

Re: [WSG] Image gallery layout

2008-07-06 Thread Lynette Smith
Thanks Thierry That link doesn't work but I have checked out the site and found the article Using CSS to style thumbnails and captions which sounds like the one. Thank you very much for the help. Lyn You may want to check this technique as it allows the images to flow while keeping them

RE: [WSG] Image gallery layout

2008-07-06 Thread Thierry Koblentz
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lynette Smith Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2008 9:16 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Image gallery layout Thanks Thierry That link doesn't work but I have checked out the site

Re: [WSG] Image gallery layout

2008-07-06 Thread Lynette Smith
Thierry At the bottom of that article there are four links to different techniques, the one you want to check is the last one: centering thumbnails (horizontally/vertically). Yes - I am at this very moment working on that one and it looks like it will be successful - I just need to convert