Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/06/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Nathan Wajsman wrote: > This is seriously good writing. I looked at the pictures too, but in > most cases I did not bother clicking on them to get the larger > image--simply because I just wanted to get on with the reading! Nathan, thank you for the kind words. Actually, this is in part an experiement, because I wanted to play around with how images and words can be used together. I'm not sure that I nailed it with this one, but it's a step closer than other stuff I've done before. In particular, the entrance with the "story" or "photographs" options shows this thinking. The gallery should probably be reordered -- and possibly completely redesigned. At the moment, the images follow the same order as they do in the narrative. I was humming and haring about this, but decided to leave it like that. Ideally they should be considered on their own merit and arranged according to visual aesthetic, rather than narrative sequence. Also, while I do believe that all the images in teh story should be in the gallery, I'm not convinced that you couldn't also have images in the gallery which are not in the story: ones which elaborate on what is shown in the story. With a database backed server (which I unfortunately don't have access to) I would play around with multiple viewpoints into the same narrative -- visual, textual, or combined. If content could be served dynamically (and on demand) then it would be possible to do this much easier than otherwise, while still keeping the navigation between the various parts understandable. Layered over the individual images and text of the story would be a level of meta-information: not meta-information in the sense of how it looks, but meta-information concerning how you tell the story and which story you are telling. A true web. Content could be served to the viewer according to multiple metaphors -- book, poetry, gallery, others -- and the viewer would be able to stick to one viewpoint, or skip between them as they saw fit. As I said, it was partly an exercise (in many things, not least the tools!). Future ones will be better -- or at least, more interesting. M. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html