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Re: [OM] October Road Trip, Part 1

Subject: Re: [OM] October Road Trip, Part 1
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 19:30:30 -0500
Sorry, I meant to add that there are some really nice shots on that 
alternative page
<<http://www.interisland.net/watershed/Albums/E-OR%20LateOct05> >

Chuck Norcutt

Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> 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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