Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/07/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Eric writes: > First...great pictures. I enjoyed looking at > your work. Thanks! > I like how you set up the navigation so you could > either click on next or simply the picture itself. Thanks again. I'm trying to figure out some elegant way of allowing random access to the photos, but I haven't come up with anything yet. I don't like the methods I see used on other sites. Thumbnails take too long to load, separate frames clutter the screen, etc. I am open to suggestions (several visitors have asked for a way to get to images randomly--right now the only way to do that is to type the URL of the desired image directly). > Keep in mind that people running 800x600 (such > as myself) don't have 800x600 viewable area. > The browser takes up a bit of room on the top > and side. So I found myself constantly having > to scroll and couldn't see your images as a > whole in one view. True, but usually the stuff around the edges isn't super-critical to the composition. In MSIE (and other browsers), you can switch to full-screen mode, which helps a bit. The thing is that Web resolutions are so poor that going any smaller cuts stuff out of the image. For example, in a group shot, going 640x480 makes the details of individuals in the group hard to see. It's frustrating when you know what the _original_ image looked like. About 1/3 of visitors these days are running 1024x768, which is a bit more comfortable size-wise. Whether or not that works for you depends on the physical size of your monitor and your own viewing comfort. I run 1600x1200 on a 20" monitor, viewed from about 18", and that seems to work out ideally.