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This has been a side project for about 18 months now. Some of you might have seen it a while back but I've been so busy the last 6 months I've barely touched it. Anyway an email from my lecturer wanting to know my 'hobbies and interests' so he can write my reference has encouraged me to finish it.

It should work perfectly in IE7, firefox and safari - IE6 is an unknown.

Comments are very much welcome. - a lot of changes were made as a result of what some of you said last time.

Now all I have to do is find time to take some photos!

thanks all :clap:


ARGHHHHHHH link: http://www.michaelplace.co.uk
 
picking nits but you only named a couple of togs in the intro, not a few ;)
 
Lovely photos, and a good-looking site. But personally I don't see the point of having a galley where the photos are only 300 pixels across.
 
Point taken on the monitor size - I suppose that's the pit fall of this kind of self contained bubble idea that I like so much.

The next revision will almost certainly be a change to something which will be suitable for different resoloutions - if only for the coding experience in being able to do it.
 
StewartR said:
Lovely photos, and a good-looking site. But personally I don't see the point of having a galley where the photos are only 300 pixels across.
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click the 300px image and it loads full web size using a very nice lightbox (the only bit not coded by myself)
 
MichaelPlace said:
Point taken on the monitor size - I suppose that's the pit fall of this kind of self contained bubble idea that I like so much.

The next revision will almost certainly be a change to something which will be suitable for different resoloutions - if only for the coding experience in being able to do it.
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It looks like you're CSS isn't basing it on a percentage of the window width, perhaps try working as a percentage instead of a fixed width of 700px?
 
markp i know this, but working it out as a percentage would cause quite a lot of problems later on.

Percentage width means the complicated stuff like dynamically displaying the images in the gallery from various different ways of doing it (folder selection, search box, latest query) gets very tricky.

You will change the amount of space it has to display images, which in turn would effect the database queries themselves (e.g. calling up 8 or 10 images instead of 6 pp). I'd need to work out the specific width of the content area on each resolution, dynamically work out what resolution each person was running so how many images could be called per page, which would also effect where in the database the second page the images would be called from. Combine this with making it multi-browser compliant and a self taught scripter it was a little beyond me this time.

Next time, next time - i know in theory how i would go about it, in practice....
 
I run at 1440wide and the width is a nice size, great looking site, well done.

Only two problems:

In IE6 the menu doesn't work correctly, all the links are fully out, also hovering over the menu links should really change the cursor to a hand, it remains a pointer and can lead to people not clicking.

The text needs to be a a touch darker as it could be a little hard to read for people with not so good eyesight. Possibly #333 same as your background or somewhere in between 333 and 666.

:)
 
MichaelPlace said:
markp i know this, but working it out as a percentage would cause quite a lot of problems later on.

Percentage width means the complicated stuff like dynamically displaying the images in the gallery from various different ways of doing it (folder selection, search box, latest query) gets very tricky.

You will change the amount of space it has to display images, which in turn would effect the database queries themselves (e.g. calling up 8 or 10 images instead of 6 pp). I'd need to work out the specific width of the content area on each resolution, dynamically work out what resolution each person was running so how many images could be called per page, which would also effect where in the database the second page the images would be called from. Combine this with making it multi-browser compliant and a self taught scripter it was a little beyond me this time.

Next time, next time - i know in theory how i would go about it, in practice....
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It doesn't need to be that complicated regarding images, use floats and the images will adjust themselves to the width percentage
 
my images are floating already :p

but 6 lonely images spread across a massive 24" widescreen monitor would look equally silly, so i'd need to add more images in, which will alter the queries.

thanks for the input tho I'll definitely look into it
 
I like the site and thinks its nice and easy to navigate but I dont like the grey on grey text its very hard to read.
 
f.box said:
I like the site and thinks its nice and easy to navigate but I dont like the grey on grey text its very hard to read.
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Guilty as charged on that one - style decision, I admit it's all style and no substance. Will again keep this in mind for future developments :p

thanks all keep those comments coming :)

/edit/ I have darkened the grey font - is that easier on they eye?
 
WanderingMind said:
I run at 1440wide and the width is a nice size, great looking site, well done.

Only two problems:

In IE6 the menu doesn't work correctly, all the links are fully out, also hovering over the menu links should really change the cursor to a hand, it remains a pointer and can lead to people not clicking.

The text needs to be a a touch darker as it could be a little hard to read for people with not so good eyesight. Possibly #333 same as your background or somewhere in between 333 and 666.

:)
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I missed this post - my apologies. I darkened the text to 444 - hope this helps. The IE6 menu problem is deliberate - IE6 doesnt support the hover function - so i used a CSS hack to ensure they all stayed out. It gives them usable access but not the full experience.

I'm going to look into the pointer issue now.

cheers :thumbs:
 
Quite a nice design, I like the colour scheme, it works well :)

MichaelPlace said:
click the 300px image and it loads full web size using a very nice lightbox (the only bit not coded by myself)
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Might be worth putting a line of text under the pictures saying "Click to Enlarge" or words to that effect, as it wasn't obvious to me that you could till I saw that post, and I like to think I'm somewhat computer savvy. :)

Rob
 
n30_mkii said:
Nice design, but i'm not too sure about the navigation?
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In what way? the way it looks, the way it is set out, the way the bars are on a mouseover?

The 'click to enlarge' text has been put in.

Sometimes when you are so close to the building of something you don't realise it might not be an obvious assumption to make. So cheers for that input :thumbs:
 
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