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Comments on new design idea

Greg G

2005-09-26, 3:18 am

This is just a personal photo site I've been cobbling together in my
spare time. It's still very much unfinished. Once you get away from
the home page youll see a navigation panel on the side. My intention
is to have different looks for that panel, but I've only done it on
some of the pages. If you look at the last 7 or so pages, starting
with Swiss Alps, you'll see what I have in mind.

http://mysite.verizon.net/gdguarino

Thanks in advance.

Greg Guarino

'sNiek

2005-09-26, 6:49 pm

Greg G schreef:
> This is just a personal photo site I've been cobbling together in my
> spare time. It's still very much unfinished. Once you get away from
> the home page youll see a navigation panel on the side. My intention
> is to have different looks for that panel, but I've only done it on
> some of the pages. If you look at the last 7 or so pages, starting
> with Swiss Alps, you'll see what I have in mind.
>
> http://mysite.verizon.net/gdguarino
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Greg Guarino

Hey Greg, you still got that float-probem in IE!

I mailed the solution to this problem in this newsgroup, here's what it was:

QUOTE
Took one more, closer, look. Made a screendump and pasted it in Photoshop.
And what do ya know?
Take a closer look at the height of the pictures with
'portrait'-dimensions (height>width)! The height is one(!) pixel to much
I gave the images a height of 149 px and now it works!

And that's what causing the strange alignment, it wasn't a css-thing at
all!.

On http://members.home.nl/n.emmen/misc/gdguarino.html I've changed the
height of the images and assed a padding-top: 5px to "a.slide,
a.slideh"-section. It works!

Sometimes the answer is right under our noses (I have a big one...)
/QUOTE

The diferent backgrounds in the left-panel work fine, allthough it tkes a while to load...

The pictures are placed in some random order, it would be nice if you could group the landscape and
portrait-formats to give the eyes some rest.

It looks great though, I'm not a fan of black backgrounds but if it comes to photographs it is very o.k.

Good luck.

--
Niek

Greg G

2005-09-26, 6:49 pm

On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 11:47:15 +0200, 'sNiek <niekemmen@netscape.net>
wrote:

>Greg G schreef:
>
>Hey Greg, you still got that float-probem in IE!

Not on my (various) computers. What version of IE do you have?

>I mailed the solution to this problem in this newsgroup, here's what it was:
>
>QUOTE
>Took one more, closer, look. Made a screendump and pasted it in Photoshop.
>And what do ya know?
>Take a closer look at the height of the pictures with
>'portrait'-dimensions (height>width)! The height is one(!) pixel to much
>I gave the images a height of 149 px and now it works!
>
>And that's what causing the strange alignment, it wasn't a css-thing at
>all!.
>
>On http://members.home.nl/n.emmen/misc/gdguarino.html I've changed the
>height of the images and assed a padding-top: 5px to "a.slide,
>a.slideh"-section. It works!
>
>Sometimes the answer is right under our noses (I have a big one...)
>/QUOTE
>
>
>The diferent backgrounds in the left-panel work fine, allthough it tkes a while to load...

I'm sure that's true on dial-up, but it's mostly the pictures
themselves, so it's pretty much unavoidable.

>The pictures are placed in some random order, it would be nice if you could group the landscape and
>portrait-formats to give the eyes some rest.

I agree. I have some ideas about that, including aligning landscape
style pictures alternately left and right so they don't all line up. I
may do that when I get a chance.

>It looks great though, I'm not a fan of black backgrounds but if it comes to photographs it is very o.k.

Thanks. I like photo albums with black pages, so I tried to imitate
that.

Greg

'sNiek

2005-09-26, 6:49 pm

Greg G schreef:
>
>
> Not on my (various) computers. What version of IE do you have?

IE with SP2, i use a screen-resolution of 1280 x 960 pix...

>
>
> I'm sure that's true on dial-up, but it's mostly the pictures
> themselves, so it's pretty much unavoidable.

We use adsl down here, very good connection, but it takes a while for the backgrounds to be displayed (when
you visit the page for the first time off course)

--
Niek

Quasimido CSS

2005-09-28, 6:25 am

Greg G <gdguarino@verizon.net> in news:jmsej1t7vsbmh32d9kjh49fat40imhbs9u@
4ax.com:

> This is just a personal photo site I've been cobbling together in my
> spare time. It's still very much unfinished. Once you get away from
> the home page youll see a navigation panel on the side. My intention
> is to have different looks for that panel, but I've only done it on
> some of the pages. If you look at the last 7 or so pages, starting
> with Swiss Alps, you'll see what I have in mind.
>
> http://mysite.verizon.net/gdguarino

> Greg Guarino

seems visually nice enough to a nonweb design person (me)

i checked on xp home sp2 patched with crt set to 1024x768

in ff 1.0.7 the page looks fine
total of 20 "slides"
slides arranged 4 across in first 5 "rows", wiht two slides remaining in the 6th "row"
if i shrink browser window to fit 800x600, the slides "wrap" nicely to 3 "columns"

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same response if do same in opera 8.02 (free/ad version)
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in IE, with brwoser window at fullsize, i see 4 "columns" but some of the leading (left
side) slides are missing on some "rows".

narrowing the brwoser causes appropriate wrapping of slides, but some rows still
"bump" slides from the left side. (the "missing" slides shift to next position. all 20 slides
still appear.)
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http://mysite.verizon.net/gdguarino/rays.htm
esthetic impression: nicely fit pics, very nice menu background (the shallows' rumply
sandy bottom)

ff wraps and 800x600 wraps fine
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i didn't check opera, assumed good
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ie did similar "missed" slide bad-wrap as with your index page
instead of fitting 6th (wide pic) to right of 5th (in third "row") IE popped 6th slide inot left
position in 4th row. there it is alone. 7th and 8th slide appear in final row, as seems
appropriate.

if i narrow browsoer window gradually, it breaks and rejoins the rows in an appropriate
way. (caveat?: with such wide pix, there aren't many wrapping variations possible)

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menu rollovers appear identical in ff and ie