Posted by Neredbojias on 10/26/05 15:59

With neither quill nor qualm, hywel.jenkins@gmail.com quothed:

> =A9=AE 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.

I never could get the "mouse-moves-the-pic" system to work in anything
but IE. (-Used to use it for scrollbarless fullscreen pic scrolling, or
better: movement.) Anyway, I like it. Why do the images have white
borders in Moz and not IE?

> 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.
>
> --=20
> Hywel
>
>

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