Sorry, I meant to add that there are some really nice shots on that
alternative page
<<http://www.interisland.net/watershed/Albums/E-OR%20LateOct05> >
Chuck Norcutt
Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> I'm sorry, but I have never previously encountered a page which I found
> so non-intuitive to use. In addition, the thumbnails on both sides take
> up valuable screen real estate and the disappearing thumbnails lead to
> confusion when you want to go back. It may work if you only ever step
> forward but stepping back leads who knows where.
>
> Your alternative page was instantly usable without giving it a second
> thought except that I was looking for a means to scroll the thumbnails
> up and down for a second or two until I noticed they were divided into
> discrete pages. IMHO that one is far superior.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
> Mike wrote:
>
>>> Actually, I do believe that there's a bug in the presentation since I
>>> just realized that certain thumbnails do actually totally disappear
>>> from both sides of the screen at times.
>>>
>> Chuck, Not a bug. That's a feature! I've allowed a maximum of 10
>> thumbs per side or the page becomes too tall for the short squatty
>> monitors. Perhaps even 10 is too many? Ditto for increasing thumb
>> size. The idea is that thumbs to the right are a preview of coming
>> attractions, those to the left are behind. The index page (button
>> upper left) provides for static back and forth navigation with mouse
>> clicks . Or page through images. Click on right side of image to move
>> to next image, left side goes back, center returns to index page.Or
>> the slideshow (button upper right). Would it be better if I provided a
>> popup help menu? And a total image tally? There isn't enough room to
>> display a full image and the thumbs on one page. Another simple skin
>> lets you page or scroll through the thumbs like this old album:
>> <http://www.interisland.net/watershed/Albums/E-OR%20LateOct05> Perhaps
>> that is more to your liking? I found it to be more cumbersome which is
>> why I switched to a modified Chameleon skin.
>
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