Posted by hywel.jenkins on 10/26/05 13:27

©® wrote:
> I am wanting to do a small photographic site (using Studio MX) whereby
> on the left-hand side there is a grid of say 25 thumbnail pics (5 x 5).
> When you click (or hover) on the thumbnail, it would then show the
> enlarged pic on the right-hand side of the page.
> Is there an extension that would help make this easier to do?
> Now to make it even more difficult, I was hoping to have the 25
> thumbnails be chosen randomly from a pool of the total pics on the site
> (e.g. 100 - hey, it's a small site) and when the page is refreshed the 5
> x 5 grid changes as well (and still, when you click/hover on the
> thumbnail it is shown enlarged).
> I am not the most advanced DW user so any pointers, tips, examples,
> extensions would be greatly appreciated.

I don't know if there's DW extension for this, but I'd say you need
some server-side scripting to handle it. With PHP, that's a trivial
task with the file system functions.

A 5x5 grid of thumbnails will mean that the thumbnails will be tiny,
wouldn't it?

If you're interested, here's my gallery: http://photos.kibo.org.uk/ I
tried the thumbnail route - I wrote my own and looked at others. I
hated them all. IMO, this one is much smarter, even though dial-up
users probably can't be arsed to wait for the photos to load.

It does all that is evil in web design: it uses JavaScript; loads loads
of images at the same time; it's got a right-click context menu for
navigation. I'm not bothered whether it's accessible in browsers with
JS disabled or missing, so the idea might not suit you.

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Hywel

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