Elrond
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You may remember but I have made a few posts in the past about designing a website and your thoughts, and I'm please to say that it is now done.
I started off with the thought of coding it all myself, even the flash that I hadn't done before, and nearly got there. The flash part was working fine with the test images but then I introduced differing sizes and came across problems. After spending ages and not knowing the resolution I had to admit defeat and went for a third party solution. I'm not happy with admitting defeat but I'm happy with what I've used and there is nothing to say I can't attempt my own one again.
As mentioned I went for flash but didn't use it for the whole site. I wanted flash as I personally prefer it over something like lightbox but on the other hand didn't want a site that took a long time to load.
I have also tried to support 1024x768 as near as I was willing to go and I know its not quite there but I didn't want to compromised the image size anymore and in the end 1024x768 isn't really that after you have taken into account menus, toolbar's and everything else. For instance someone may have the Google Toolbar that makes it even smaller. Plus I can keep track of stats and if people are using different resolutions I can increase the size.
I have tried to go for the clean look and hope it works.
Anyway, the link is as follows and any feedback would be greatfull so that I can try and improve the site if possible.
Stuart Leaver Photography
Oh, and I have also done a blog that I hope to update as I hopefully learn to be a better photographer and my journey towards that!
My Blog
I started off with the thought of coding it all myself, even the flash that I hadn't done before, and nearly got there. The flash part was working fine with the test images but then I introduced differing sizes and came across problems. After spending ages and not knowing the resolution I had to admit defeat and went for a third party solution. I'm not happy with admitting defeat but I'm happy with what I've used and there is nothing to say I can't attempt my own one again.
As mentioned I went for flash but didn't use it for the whole site. I wanted flash as I personally prefer it over something like lightbox but on the other hand didn't want a site that took a long time to load.
I have also tried to support 1024x768 as near as I was willing to go and I know its not quite there but I didn't want to compromised the image size anymore and in the end 1024x768 isn't really that after you have taken into account menus, toolbar's and everything else. For instance someone may have the Google Toolbar that makes it even smaller. Plus I can keep track of stats and if people are using different resolutions I can increase the size.
I have tried to go for the clean look and hope it works.
Anyway, the link is as follows and any feedback would be greatfull so that I can try and improve the site if possible.
Stuart Leaver Photography
Oh, and I have also done a blog that I hope to update as I hopefully learn to be a better photographer and my journey towards that!
My Blog