Just completed a little redesign of the gallery section. Earlier, viewing a image caused reloading of the whole page and a whole lot of bandwidth was going in the surrounding elements. Well browsers do cache a lot of the images, but overall not very efficient and slow. So I re-tooled the gallery scripts to use Lightbox2 to display the images. Now the images are overlaid on top of the existing page and only the image is sent from the server. The best part is the cool overlay effects and ability to go navigate the gallery using the mouse of the keyboard (Next - n, Prev - p, Close -x).
Check it out here.. I have put the new scripts in a new location still I am sure I am not breaking anything else. The link on the nav bar still points to the old gallery pages.
Next, I want to re-write the site, but keep the same look-and-feel. The current HTML code is pretty messy and I see too many nested tables being used. Since the time I built this site, I have learnt a lot more about CSS, positioning using DIVs and W3C standards. I want to try and use these and build an easier to maintain site.
Aha. Thats just a dummy address. Your email will never reach me. Leave a comment and add a contact email in the appropirate field. I can get the email from the database.
Re: Redesigned Gallery pages
by the same anon - May 17, 2006, 11:26 pm • [Reply]
Oh
Nice :) Anyway, even in the last comment, i had left an email address. Hope you found that!
Again, I am leaving my email address. Please email me once.
Nothing particular really. Just wanted to befriend you :) Since we seem to share something in common ... webdesign!
cheers
guess...I need too...to show that i m a techie's wife;-)
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by finnagin bell - June 7, 2006, 2:56 am • [Reply]
Hi there Mahesh.
I recently stummbed accross your wallpaper page (http://www.mahesh.net/lightbox/sample_gallery/) when I was trying to troubleshoot some issues I was having implimenting lightbox into my website. I since solved most of my troubles, but i SERIOUSLY love you initial "loading overlay" technology. Is there anywhere you can point me on the web where I might find a simular downloadable version. I have been stumbling my through some home design, but that is WAY over my head. Would it be reasonably simply to incorporate into my website (www.finnaginbell.com.au)?
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Re: Redesigned Gallery pages