Posted by hywel.jenkins on 10/26/05 16:07

Neredbojias wrote:
> 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?

Dunno - the image just has bit of padding and a white background, then
the black border. IE has collapsed the padding, or the margin, I can't
remember. I'll fix it one day.

Glad you like it.

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Hywel

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