December 16, 200817 yr Evening all, Sorry if I haven't really made a proper introduction, maybe I'll do that later, but for now I'm hoping one of you clever folks can give me some advice. I've done a bit of website design in the past and have just recently set up a domain with typo3 hosting, which I have installed and configured etc. I am some way into designing my site - which is fundamentally to display photos of my paintings (I'm an artist). I have managed to work my way through the typo3 documentation and have edited an HTML template, and managed to edit the CCS master stylesheet, so I feel I now have a good fundamental basis for the site, with the content and presentation kept separate with minimal overlap. This isn't a question specific to typo3 - I mention it because I find it a very powerful yet flexible CMS. I've been doing fine with all the general layout stuff, but I want my gallery pages to be really easy to see and easy to use. I have in mind a means of presentation that I have seen on some other sites. Basically, the viewer clicks on an image on a gallery page, and the image opens in a nice little pop up window on centre screen. Once open, one has the option to either click to close, or in some cases, just click to view next image. The thing I like about such an approach is that there are no 'controls' visible, with all the 'nasty' arrows and 'click this' buttons - just nice and simple and intuitive. So my question to you is: What, in principle, do you feel is the best kind of approach for the kind of presentation I'm looking for? I specifically wish to avoid anything like tables or suchlike embedded in a page since as I paint more pictures, and put more work on the site, I don't want to constantly find myself rearranging static elements in a table. I'm okay at following instructions, design docs and manuals, it's the conceptual side I know very little about, so I don't know what sort of solution I might be looking for. Is it a script? Or would using flash accomplish what I want? Or is there some other way of going about it? Sorry to seem vague - hopefully any answers will help me to ask a better question. Thanks in advance Alan
December 16, 200817 yr Hi I think what you are looking for is lightbox http://www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox/ There are other variations of the above that are also open source Pat
December 16, 200817 yr Author Pat - you are a total genius! Exactly what I was looking for, how cool is that! Thanks. I'll go take a look and see if I can work it out. Regards... One satisfied customer
December 16, 200817 yr Pat - you are a total genius! Exactly what I was looking for, how cool is that! Thanks. I'll go take a look and see if I can work it out. Regards... One satisfied customer Any problems setting up just post back, their are lots of people here who have used it Pat
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