Need suggestiongs for gallery layouts on my site

Zonglars · July 17th, 2007, 04:42 PM

I'm planning to redo my artwork section of my site not just to save space/bandwidth and validate it, but to improve the look.

here's my current gallery

http://www.freewebs.com/pyramidia/Artwork/CGArt.html

and my alternate, slightly better version

http://www.freewebs.com/pyramidia/Artwork/CGArt2.html

i'm not sure what to go with; individual preview galleries like what i have (maybe bigger and one per row), or condensed into one, and stuff like special effects when changing (like fade or "spin"). the other pages i'll do the same once i get more than 3 or 4 each (might have to merge some in order to do that though).

any ideas or examples would be appreciated, i want this to be as attractive and efficient as possible when i upgrade with a domain name and what not.

I'm not looking for actual coding, just design ideas, i can figure out the coding for it myself... hopefully

BGarner · July 17th, 2007, 05:59 PM

You can always do thumbnails with a light box effect. I would prefer all the images in one place. Check out this site: www.davidwilsonillustration.com he has a nice setup.

Hope this helps a little...

Zonglars · July 17th, 2007, 06:14 PM

Um... preferably not flash, don't have a clue how to make those things, though i bet i could find a tutorial somewhere.

i will probably put them all in one spot, a lot less coding for sure, and likely double the size of the thumbnails, or tripple... no, double

Lchad · July 17th, 2007, 08:52 PM

Lightbox is nice and I have used the Hover Image Gallery by SonSpring several times. Both are relatively easy to implement.

Zonglars · July 17th, 2007, 09:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lchad

Lightbox is nice and I have used the Hover Image Gallery by SonSpring several times. Both are relatively easy to implement.

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Yes, Yes, OH GOD YES!!!!!!......
i swore to myself i would never do that again...

not sure which one to use, but i'm getting ideas already... maybe something similar to my preview section on my home page... BINGO!!!

thanks, i owe you one... though at this rate i'm gonna need to keep a tab...

Lchad · July 18th, 2007, 08:24 AM

No tab needed... happy to help!

Zonglars · July 18th, 2007, 09:48 AM

Definitely gonna go with the HoverBox, less space needed, but it's such a pain to redesign the layout; i want separate rows with different number of images for each category, but if i add a <br> to separate the rows like that, it either doesn't do it the way i want it to or, after changing all sorts of elements, it doesn't work in IE.

maybe i'll try that thumbnails gallery thing i found on cssplay... oooh, ideas...