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Can anyone tell me if this is a custom XML flash photo gallery or this a stock gallery that you can buy and customize? If it is a stock gallery what is it called or is their anything that is similar?
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Is this a custom XML flash gallery?
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Posted 10 September 2008 - 06:25 PM
Hi,
It looks like a practically straight out of the box 'Flash Media Gallery' by Flash Nifties (http://www.flashnifties.com/) to me, and the code pretty much confirms that.
I have used their XML Photo Gallery, and that's not bad for the money.
For the XML Photo gallery, in theory you don't have to create individual thumbnails for each picture, as it will do it for you. In practise, I found that caused it fail loading the thumbnails, due to the time taken to download images before rendering I assume. It looks like 'Flash Media Gallery' on the ASP World Tour site might have similar problems.
If you do go down the Flash Nifties route, I would strongly suggest using dedicated thumbnail images, as that made it much more reliable for me.
Hope this helps
Ian
It looks like a practically straight out of the box 'Flash Media Gallery' by Flash Nifties (http://www.flashnifties.com/) to me, and the code pretty much confirms that.
I have used their XML Photo Gallery, and that's not bad for the money.
For the XML Photo gallery, in theory you don't have to create individual thumbnails for each picture, as it will do it for you. In practise, I found that caused it fail loading the thumbnails, due to the time taken to download images before rendering I assume. It looks like 'Flash Media Gallery' on the ASP World Tour site might have similar problems.
If you do go down the Flash Nifties route, I would strongly suggest using dedicated thumbnail images, as that made it much more reliable for me.
Hope this helps
Ian
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Posted 11 September 2008 - 12:54 AM
No problems,
Flash Nifities is quite nice stuff though, a fair price, and the XML files make it really easy to configure and maintain - had a really nice looking gallery in about 10 minutes from downloading. I just wouldn't rely on it to create thumbnails on the fly without some serious end-user experience testing.
Flash Nifities is quite nice stuff though, a fair price, and the XML files make it really easy to configure and maintain - had a really nice looking gallery in about 10 minutes from downloading. I just wouldn't rely on it to create thumbnails on the fly without some serious end-user experience testing.
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