Sid Barras writes:
> Anyways, here's the deal: She would like for me to find a web site I
> like and in a style that would be appropriate for show casing my work.
> I'm not talking about plagiarism, guys. She would just like to see what
> other photographers have done to get ideas for layout and format.
I guess I could offer my own site as an example, not necessarily of "great
work" but it might give you a few ideas. The URL is in my signature below. I
quite like the look-&-feel of my "gallery" pages. I'm putting a lot of work into
my next update but the general presentation will remain reasonably similar.
You'll have to click through to the photography section and select the
"gallery". This is where my first advice comes from: avoid frames. I hate
them. If you want them to actually look good and work well you have to use
browser-specific tags because the W3C frameset standard is totally
inadequate. Frames also make referring people to one particular page a real
pain. I'll probably be removing them when I next update my site.
My next "technical" suggestion is to never, ever make assumptions. When
designing your site try resizing the browser window - that may catch a few
problems (many sites assume you're using a maximised browser in
800x600). Do not use fixed-width tables unless you have a reason to.
Think about just how many pictures you intend to put up. I thought a lot
about that when designing the current incarnation of my site, and decided
that 5 pages of 5 images per page would be about the limit of most people's
patience, particularly with the size of my "thumbnails". I added another two
pages later when I scanned some more pics, and I haven't touched it in a
year or so now because I don't want to replace what's there, and my design
probably won't work with more pictures. My previous page had a lot more
pictures available but I wasn't comfortable with the random arrangement of
postage-stamp-sized thumbnails.
If you look at my HTML source you'll see that I'm pretty reliant on tables for
doing the page layout. They seemed to give the most consistent result with
the least amount of fuss (relatively speaking, of course). I would recommend
testing your pages with several different browsers both old and new (or ask
PDML to do it).
Another thing to consider is how to do your layout with both portrait and
landscape-format images to display.
I'd better get to bed now...
Cheers,
- Dave
David A. Mann, B.E.
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