Website layout - comments please

Pentax DA 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 AF

03/29/2005 01:14:53 AM · #1

//naruto.ucdavis.edu/gallery

It'll take some time for me to shrink all the thumbnails and rebuild the gallery. Just asking for comments on layout and design for now.

faidoi

Pentax K10D

03/29/2005 01:17:04 AM · #2

I would say try to keep the thumbs the same size.

Dr.Confuser

Nikon D800

Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm f/2.8G ED

03/29/2005 01:19:24 AM · #3

Originally posted by virtuamike:

//naruto.ucdavis.edu/gallery

It'll take some time for me to shrink all the thumbnails and rebuild the gallery. Just asking for comments on layout and design for now.

What Gallery software are you using?

Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm f/2.8G ED

03/29/2005 01:22:54 AM · #4

Originally posted by faidoi:

I would say try to keep the thumbs the same size.

Yeah, the plan is to make 100x100 thumbs, but it'll take me a while to get through all of them.

Originally posted by Digital Quixote:

What Gallery software are you using?

Prob just gonna write my own. I have a php/mysql site generator that I wrote for another site, just gonna grab it and tweak so it has gallery functionality.

Dr.Confuser

Nikon D800

03/29/2005 01:24:04 AM · #5

Originally posted by virtuamike:

Originally posted by faidoi:
I would say try to keep the thumbs the same size.

Yeah, the plan is to make 100x100 thumbs, but it'll take me a while to get through all of them.

Originally posted by Digital Quixote:
What Gallery software are you using?

Prob just gonna write my own. I have a php/mysql site generator that I wrote for another site, just gonna grab it and tweak so it has gallery functionality.

I like what you're doing here. PM me when you're a little farther along, k?

03/29/2005 01:27:56 AM · #6

Originally posted by Digital Quixote:

Originally posted by virtuamike:

Originally posted by faidoi:
I would say try to keep the thumbs the same size.

Yeah, the plan is to make 100x100 thumbs, but it'll take me a while to get through all of them.

Originally posted by Digital Quixote:
What Gallery software are you using?

Prob just gonna write my own. I have a php/mysql site generator that I wrote for another site, just gonna grab it and tweak so it has gallery functionality.

I like what you're doing here. PM me when you're a little farther along, k?

Sure will do.

Pixelstate

Apple iPhone

03/29/2005 01:28:40 AM · #7

Looks nice. Nice simple layout, achieves what it sets out to do.
Not sure if you have it available but Photoshop CS has a pretty nifty function (under the browser) to re-size images for web including generating thumbnails. This can be batched. (I prepared a 100 images from a recent trip in about 10 minutes)

Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

03/29/2005 01:38:53 AM · #8

Originally posted by Chrisds:

Something like that exists in PS 7 too. Haven't played with it much but it is fast and handy. I'm gonna run into a problem though if I make everything 100x100 since I have to worry about the crop.

gloda

Canon EOS-5D Mark II

03/29/2005 03:10:22 AM · #9

Looks good. Neat and professional layout. You might consder shrinnking the top frame, where mikewong photography is written. It takes up a lot of space which isn'T put to good use. Maybe you should write your name and 'photography' in one line instead of one below the other?
I use Firefox 1.02 on WinXP at 1280x800.

Konica Minolta AF 18-70mm f/3.5-5.6(D) DT

03/29/2005 05:58:53 AM · #10

Originally posted by gloda:

The logo is 50 pixels tall. I went ahead with your suggestion and shrunk the margins so there's only 5px on top and bottom but it's not any more than what other sites use (in fact it takes up less space than the DPC header). Tried the photography thing on the side but it didn't look good, logo is already at 4:1 format.

Landscape Gallery

The landscape gallery is up and running. I wanted to see what it'd look like with 100x100 thumbnails, pretty happy with it so far. I don't think I'll get the rest of the galleries up just yet though, gonna divert time to coding the content management stuff first. I'll probably change out the images on the main page when I wake up but that's pretty much it for major changes for the time being.

Wobble

Sony DSLR-A350

03/29/2005 06:22:28 AM · #11

Yep, I like it.

gloda

Canon EOS-5D Mark II

Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

03/29/2005 07:21:12 AM · #12

[quote=virtuamike]
In fact [the header] takes up less space than the DPC header.
You're right. For some reason I thought it was a frame which wouldn't scroll with the rest of the page. That is not so. It's good the way it is now. Oh, and two rows of thumbs instead of one are definately an improvement. Good job.

moodville

Nikon D100

03/29/2005 08:34:01 AM · #13

It crashed my machine twice :( I use IE

twm122

Olympus E-3

Olympus 50-200mm f/2.8-3.5 ED Zuiko Digital

03/29/2005 08:55:21 AM · #14

Looks really good. Love all of your landscapes. What spectacular sunrises and sunsets.

Teresa

totaldis

Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi

Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II

03/29/2005 08:59:12 AM · #15

yeah, my ie crashes as well, or atleast i dont give it enough time to finish whatever its doing while its frozen.

Bran-O-Rama

Canon EOS-5D

Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

03/29/2005 09:01:48 AM · #16

For some reason, thumbnails appear to be more saturated than the actual sized images. Feels a little misleading. Optical illusion or different processing?