Re: PAW thumbnail page
In a message dated 8/21/2005 3:10:54 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've added a thumbnail gallery page link to my PAW 2005 front page. Makes it easy to find a particular image, if you're so inclined: http://homepage.mac.com/ramarren/photo/PAW5/ The link is at the lower portion of the page. Let me know what you think, or whether some other design would be more helpful. Godfrey = Thumb nail page looks good. (Some nice photos I hadn't seen.) But, I too, found the little blocks confusing. At first I thought they were supposed to be thumbnails, then I saw the link to the thumbnail page. Maybe the blocks could be smaller, then no one would think that they are supposed to be thumbnails (with pictures that didn't load). Or maybe dots or bars rather than blocks. Whatever. Nice photos. I wish I could do 1/2 as well. Marnie
Re: PAW thumbnail page
On Aug 25, 2005, at 10:19 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thumb nail page looks good. (Some nice photos I hadn't seen.) But, I too, found the little blocks confusing. At first I thought they were supposed to be thumbnails, then I saw the link to the thumbnail page. Maybe the blocks could be smaller, then no one would think that they are supposed to be thumbnails (with pictures that didn't load). Or maybe dots or bars rather than blocks. Whatever. Nice photos. I wish I could do 1/2 as well. Heya Marnie, Thanks for the compliment! And thanks for looking and commenting. I'll likely revise the frontispiece page for next year's PAW, based on the amount of feedback I've gotten on the status bar. Might integrate the thumbnail page into it; I didn't in the past as I felt that the frontispiece should load very quickly, and loading up to 50- some thumbnails takes time on a slow connection. I have an idea that might work better, though, without losing the specific functionality and display information that I wanted for it. I've put thumbnail pages up linked to the frontispiece for all posted years of PAW projects now. http://homepage.mac.com/ramarren/photo/PAW1/thumbs/ http://homepage.mac.com/ramarren/photo/PAW2/thumbs/ http://homepage.mac.com/ramarren/photo/PAW3/thumbs/ http://homepage.mac.com/ramarren/photo/PAW4/thumbs/ http://homepage.mac.com/ramarren/photo/PAW5/thumbs/ Godfrey
PAW thumbnail page
I've added a thumbnail gallery page link to my PAW 2005 front page. Makes it easy to find a particular image, if you're so inclined: http://homepage.mac.com/ramarren/photo/PAW5/ The link is at the lower portion of the page. Let me know what you think, or whether some other design would be more helpful. Godfrey
RE: PAW thumbnail page
Godfrey, on the link you posted, I am not sure the little blocks at the bottom are very helpful. Perhaps it's because you are still working on this, but I am confused that the images linked from the little blocks are not the same as the thumbnail page -- should they be the same? I would consider eliminating the little blocks and just linking to your thumbnails page. The thumbnail page that you specifically asked about is helpful and easy on the eye, and it loaded quickly even on my dialup connection: http://homepage.mac.com/ramarren/photo/PAW5/thumbs/index.html More importantly, thanks for posting this -- I saw and really enjoyed several here that I had not seen before. You're on my list of photographers whose work makes me think when I'm out snapping. *UncaMikey
Re: PAW thumbnail page
Thanks for the comment (and the compliment!), UncaMikey. The little block selector is supposed to show the progress of the Picture A Week through the year, and provide a quick way to get to the latest one or pick one at random. The reason I did the thumbnail page is that I often want to get to a particular image, for one reason or another, and the block selector isn't good at that ... I end up going back and forth through the series a lot. The thumbnails page images point to exactly the same pages for each image as the block display does. The only difference is that the thumbnails are constrained to be a center-square crop of the image in order to keep the page regular in appearance. If they're not working that way, then there's something wrong, but they seem to be working in my testing of the pages. Godfrey On Aug 21, 2005, at 5:40 PM, Unca Mikey wrote: Godfrey, on the link you posted, I am not sure the little blocks at the bottom are very helpful. Perhaps it's because you are still working on this, but I am confused that the images linked from the little blocks are not the same as the thumbnail page -- should they be the same? I would consider eliminating the little blocks and just linking to your thumbnails page. The thumbnail page that you specifically asked about is helpful and easy on the eye, and it loaded quickly even on my dialup connection: http://homepage.mac.com/ramarren/photo/PAW5/thumbs/index.html More importantly, thanks for posting this -- I saw and really enjoyed several here that I had not seen before. You're on my list of photographers whose work makes me think when I'm out snapping. *UncaMikey
Re: PAW thumbnail page
Hh. Godfrey, when I load http://homepage.mac.com/ramarren/photo/PAW5/, I don't get much detail in the small gray blocks. In fact, no detail, just small gray blocks, LOL. Nothing in the blocks allows me to differentiate one image from another. After I have viewed an image, the border is red, which confuses your statement that the red block is always the latest week posted. (No, my browser's normal color for viewed links is not red.) Now that I have viewed many images, there are many blocks that have red borders. This is probably getting too detailed and arcane for most PDML readers, but: older images have a solid gray block. If I have viewed the image, it has a red border; if not, it has a black border. The block (and border) for the current week (33) is solid red. The blocks for weeks not yet done are a lighter gray, with a visible grid in the small block; all these future blocks have a red border. I was able to match up the images, however, so yes, now I can see they are the same set of images. No problem there. I'm using Firefox on an iMac G5, OS 10.4.1, if that makes any difference. I can do a screen shot and send it to you if it would help. Is anyone still awake? Larf! *UncaMikey
Re: PAW thumbnail page
The thumbnail page appears as you've described it on my system. Shel [Original Message] From: Godfrey DiGiorgi The thumbnails page images point to exactly the same pages for each image as the block display does. The only difference is that the thumbnails are constrained to be a center-square crop of the image in order to keep the page regular in appearance. If they're not working that way, then there's something wrong, but they seem to be working in my testing of the pages.
Re: PAW thumbnail page
Thanks Shel. Godfrey On Aug 21, 2005, at 7:51 PM, Shel Belinkoff wrote: The thumbnail page appears as you've described it on my system. Shel [Original Message] From: Godfrey DiGiorgi The thumbnails page images point to exactly the same pages for each image as the block display does. The only difference is that the thumbnails are constrained to be a center-square crop of the image in order to keep the page regular in appearance. If they're not working that way, then there's something wrong, but they seem to be working in my testing of the pages.
Re: PAW thumbnail page
On Aug 21, 2005, at 7:00 PM, Unca Mikey wrote: Hh. Godfrey, when I load http://homepage.mac.com/ramarren/ photo/PAW5/, I don't get much detail in the small gray blocks. In fact, no detail, just small gray blocks, LOL. Nothing in the blocks allows me to differentiate one image from another. After I have viewed an image, the border is red, which confuses your statement that the red block is always the latest week posted. (No, my browser's normal color for viewed links is not red.) Now that I have viewed many images, there are many blocks that have red borders. This is probably getting too detailed and arcane for most PDML readers, but: older images have a solid gray block. If I have viewed the image, it has a red border; if not, it has a black border. The block (and border) for the current week (33) is solid red. The blocks for weeks not yet done are a lighter gray, with a visible grid in the small block; all these future blocks have a red border. They're supposed to be small, gray blocks without a border. Un- available links should be a light gray stipple pattern with black border, the current block should be red. I normally use the Safari browser, which renders them as the HTML is coded. You can tell that the link they each point to has changed by running the mouse over each one and looking at the link status line at the bottom of the window (if you have that viewable) ... the URL will change as you go one to the next with the mouse. Subtle, perhaps too subtle. ;-) FireFox puts the link activation border around them, even though I believe I have code in there to display no border. I consider this a FireFox bug. I wonder if there's some non-destructive way to stop it from doing that. They display as intended in both Safari and MS Internet Explorer. I was able to match up the images, however, so yes, now I can see they are the same set of images. No problem there. I'm using Firefox on an iMac G5, OS 10.4.1, if that makes any difference. I can do a screen shot and send it to you if it would help. I'm on Mac OS X v10.4.2 with FireFox, Safari, and Internet Explorer installed. (I think I have Opera on here too...) I can see what you're saying, but FireFox is not displaying the pages the way they're supposed to display, given the HTML. Internet Explorer and Safari both do a better job and display them as intended. I'll see if there's any way to correct the display in FireFox that doesn't ruin it in the other two. Thanks for the comments! Godfrey
