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Which photo gallery do you prefer?

coinpicturescoinpictures Posts: 5,345 ✭✭✭
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Coinpictures.com is long overdue for an update. Am toying with the idea of redoing the photo gallery mechanism.

Which do you prefer:

1. Old Look. Traditional HTML layout

2. New Look. Uses a flash player mechanism.

All suggestions appreciated...

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  • ajaanajaan Posts: 17,455 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I like the first one. Easier for me to work.

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  • oldshepoldshep Posts: 3,240 ✭
    Old look - easier to use and quite nice larger pictures.
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  • IlikeZARcoinsIlikeZARcoins Posts: 901
    Yep - I'll second.......errrrr, triple that. image

    Old look for me too.
  • AethelredAethelred Posts: 9,288 ✭✭✭
    I say stick with the old one.
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  • LynchLynch Posts: 299
    A lot of people have flash disabled in their browser as a way to kill all those incredibly annoying animated flash ads that plague the web these days.
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  • coinpicturescoinpictures Posts: 5,345 ✭✭✭
    Yeah, that seems to be the consensus.

    I think I'm going to overhaul the site to (1) get rid of the frames, and (2) use small image thumbnails for the obverse and reverse. Rather than trying to cram the display of the full-sized images onto the same page as the list of coins for each letter, I think I will do pages like this one, where clicking on an image thumbnail pops up a window with the full-size image in it.

    I needed to do more work on this page, which is why it wasn't linked anywhere yet.

    I know that people hate popup windows, but I think it's different when you as the visitor are choosing to view popup elements, rather than having them foisted upon you unintentionally...

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  • satootokosatootoko Posts: 2,720 ✭


    << <i>I know that people hate popup windows, but I think it's different when you as the visitor are choosing to view popup elements, rather than having them foisted upon you unintentionally. >>

    The problem with that is that those of us who have turned off flash to avoid popups would have to turn it on before going to your site, and then (hopefully) remember to turn it off again when finished.

    I'm with the others on preferring the old version. image

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  • theboz11theboz11 Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭
    I wouldn't mind setting up a page like number one. I have powerful second computer that can be a server I guess. How do you make the page and set up a server?
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  • coinpicturescoinpictures Posts: 5,345 ✭✭✭
    I've redone all the pages to incorporate small image thumbnails rather than just "Obv" and "Rev", and clicking on a thumbnail opens a window with the full-sized image. I've got it set such that just hitting the spacebar will close the window.

    www.coinpictures.com

    Now to start adding more pictures... image
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