  Here is a something a bit different: a Flash mini gallery showing images from our Cuba set on flickr: The
mini gallery above displays fine on most browsers but this is a pretty
complicated page, with multiple scripts and embedded Flash objects.
Almost an example of what to avoid in web design! The flickr gallery was fine in
Firefox 3 & 4, Chrome, Safari and IE8. Opera failed to handle it and in IE9 I had
to select compatibility mode.
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For an extensive collection of my images see http://www.flickr.com/photos/chericbaker/sets/ That has everything from holiday and family snaps to more artistic images.  Above
is an
exception
to my usual
"no scripting" rule; it's a javascripted image gallery. It's a bit too
vertical but at least it responds to keyboard arrow keys, on Macs as
well as PCs. And the left/right mouse arrow next/previous areas stay in
the same place as you click along - unlike with many image
galleries. The captions are optional and their display speed is easy to
vary.The gallery seems to work fine across Internet Explorer 8 & 9, Firefox 3 & 4, Chrome, Safari and Opera. If it doesn't look like the thumbnail to the right then you must be viewing it via something with javascript disabled. That's pretty rare nowadays. The slideshow option works well too. It even centres the current image in the film strip. I've started the gallery right up the top of the screen because the ultra wide/shallow screens on modern laptops and netbooks are good for the occasional movie but rubbish for showing photos - they show landscape ones ridiculously bigger than portrait ones. The gallery above is less mean to portrait images. Another bit of scripting makes the logo, top left, cycle through different variants. It can be useful to cycle through decent quality images automatically - animated gifs are OK but the range of colours is very limited. Here's something different - video is always a problem on websites but I've found that if you link to one hosted on flickr.com it works beautifully (as long as you can see Flash content). Here's my granddaughter cooking: |
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