January 26, 200917 yr While I was putting together www.stargasm.co.uk, I got in touch with a few photographers with a mind to licensing some of their images. Eventually I opted to use Picapp instead, but my search put me in touch with a photographer called Steve Osborn, who does a lot of work at movie premieres etc. We did a trade, a free site for the option to license images at a later date. Here it is: http://www.steveosbornphotography.com/index.php Most of the work is in the back end - it automatically generates thumbnail galleries and links based on the folder structure of the site, to enable the client to update the site without too much hassle, and it pulls image info from the EXIF data of each image. The galleries paginate, and the prev - next buttons are conditional, so they'll dissappear if there are no more images to view. If there are any bugs, let me know! Design wise, I was given a business card graphic to adhere too, and the client wanted the site to be minimal, although I might update the visuals a little later on. The footer is broke on two of the galleries on account of me putting the end of the wrapper div inside a conditional to paginate the gallery. Just noticed it.... DOH!!! Took 3 days in all, re-using an existing template. So, let me have it...
January 26, 200917 yr While I was putting together www.stargasm.co.uk, I got in touch with a few photographers with a mind to licensing some of their images. Eventually I opted to use Picapp instead, but my search put me in touch with a photographer called Steve Osborn, who does a lot of work at movie premieres etc. We did a trade, a free site for the option to license images at a later date. Here it is. let me know what you think: http://www.steveosbornphotography.com/index.php Most of the work is in the back end - it automatically generates thumbnail galleries and links based on the folder structure of the site, to enable the client to update the site without too much hassle, and it pulls image info from the EXIF data of each image. The galleries paginate, and the prev - next buttons are conditional, so they'll dissappear if there are no more images to view. If there are any bugs, let me know! Design wise, I was given a business card graphic to adhere too, and the client wanted the site to be minimal, although I might update the visuals a little later on. The footer is broke on two of the galleries on account of me putting the end of the wrapper div inside a conditional to paginate the gallery. Just noticed it.... DOH!!! Took 3 days in all, re-using an existing template. So, let me have it... Dude this is site is like something I wanted to create well the concept I mean, It looks cool, [<qoute]it automatically generates thumbnail galleries and links based on the folder structure of[/qoute] could you explain what the IT is please
January 26, 200917 yr Author could you explain what the IT is please Sorry, I don't understand your question?
January 26, 200917 yr Well looks really good to me:it's light,white, excellent for presenting photos.I find no bugs or errors.I guess steve will be pretty happy with it. The only very small thing I'd mention is that within gallery.php you should write all categories with capital/non-capital letter or just add "Categories".The first time I visited the page I thought it was a tag cloud or something like that .
January 26, 200917 yr Author Ok do you have msn ? nope, but I have PM some anti-alias your navigation will be better. the navigation uses native fonts?? The only very small thing I'd mention is that within gallery.php you should write all categories with capital/non-capital letter or just add "Categories".The first time I visited the page I thought it was a tag cloud or something like that .. It picks up the title casing of any folder the user places on the site, and Steve used caps on the greece folder. I could easily automate the casing, but I wanted to discuss it with the client first - but I've said the same thing. The site also scans all the subdirectories for images, picks those that are portrait ratio and displays a random one on the homepage... Ah, I love PHP, so glad I took the time to get my head round it.
January 26, 200917 yr It's a really nice website, perfect for a photographer in his field, I think I'm going to phone up a couple in the area to offer them some free designs and get my name out there. One comment, on the "Creative" and "Steve Osborn", it's as though there's a slightly darker border around the edge that's playing with my eyes, make it just grey and use a higher quality image format to prevent it from looking blurred like it does at the moment.
January 26, 200917 yr Author Good point, I noticed that too. It's a real rough and ready jpeg I knocked up from the business card. It was my first pass, but he liked it. I noticed it last night, I'll sort that when I get home...
January 26, 200917 yr Nice layout, easy navigation, but there is just something missing, it feels like it is just floating out there in a big white void. You need something "graphical" to anchor it and keep the person looking, it is just too plain.
January 26, 200917 yr Nice and simple and I like it a lot. One thing though, I'm not always seeing an image on the home page. After a very quick test, it shows an image about 3 times in 10?
January 26, 200917 yr Author Nice layout, easy navigation, but there is just something missing, it feels like it is just floating out there in a big white void. You need something "graphical" to anchor it and keep the person looking, it is just too plain. yeah, it's a bit tricky, because I can't control the dimensions of the images the client uploads. One thing though, I'm not always seeing an image on the home page.After a very quick test, it shows an image about 3 times in 10? That was a bug that I think I've just fixed. I made the script automatically uppercase the first character on each subdirectory link, but I think that confused the actual paths. Should work now?
January 26, 200917 yr That was a bug that I think I've just fixed. I made the script automatically uppercase the first character on each subdirectory link, but I think that confused the actual paths. Should work now? Works fine now
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