I'm sorry, but I have never previously encountered a page which I found
so non-intuitive to use. In addition, the thumbnails on both sides take
up valuable screen real estate and the disappearing thumbnails lead to
confusion when you want to go back. It may work if you only ever step
forward but stepping back leads who knows where.
Your alternative page was instantly usable without giving it a second
thought except that I was looking for a means to scroll the thumbnails
up and down for a second or two until I noticed they were divided into
discrete pages. IMHO that one is far superior.
Chuck Norcutt
Mike wrote:
>> Actually, I do believe that there's a bug in the presentation since I
>> just realized that certain thumbnails do actually totally disappear from
>> both sides of the screen at times.
>>
> Chuck, Not a bug. That's a feature! I've allowed a maximum of 10 thumbs
> per side or the page becomes too tall for the short squatty monitors.
> Perhaps even 10 is too many? Ditto for increasing thumb size. The idea
> is that thumbs to the right are a preview of coming attractions, those
> to the left are behind. The index page (button upper left) provides for
> static back and forth navigation with mouse clicks . Or page through
> images. Click on right side of image to move to next image, left side
> goes back, center returns to index page.Or the slideshow (button upper
> right). Would it be better if I provided a popup help menu? And a total
> image tally? There isn't enough room to display a full image and the
> thumbs on one page. Another simple skin lets you page or scroll
> through the thumbs like this old album:
> <http://www.interisland.net/watershed/Albums/E-OR%20LateOct05> Perhaps
> that is more to your liking? I found it to be more cumbersome which is
> why I switched to a modified Chameleon skin.
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