First, the slide show is much more flexible than I would have expected,
so extra thanks for this, Chris and Slug.
pinemikey wrote:...It is interesting that a non-public gallery doesn't prevent images from being seen, yet non-public images are hidden from the slideshow.
I found to my mild shock that sending someone to a non-private
image results in no image showing to anyone but me. I guess that's why
the slideshow doesn't show these either.
I reworked a number of panoramas to max 800 wide x 450 high. To those of us with 16:9 format cameras, this is a natural dimension when resized down for the web anyway. For my DSLR images I'll try to crop out to have 500px vertical max. Anything larger on the vertical will force most users (1024x768) into scrolling - a fact sometimes lost on those who demand originals in their slideshows.
Especially may be lost on those with 1280x1024 screens that the still
majority-users won't be able to see the whole thing in a slide show.
QUESTIONS for Arjun and any other HTML/CSS gurus:
1. I have the resized-down (400 pixels) slides running on a test page
that acts as a secondary Main Galleries page. It loads very fast with the
same slide-gallery.
http://www.pbase.com/andrys/abtravels
2. The root page now uses the "original" 500-pixel images I used for the
former Borruel slideshow - they're the same images and gallery used
for the test gallery in #1.
This root page loads very slowly. Only the first 3-1/2 lines show up for
awhile while waiting for the slideshow to load. Is it because "All Galleries"
always forces a new refresh?
It does have more thumbnails for galleries in it that are visible to me
since my test "Main Galleries" page has only the galleries people can
access. The latter page never seems to load that slowly, even initially.
3. There may be something weird in my HTML because this root page
will not obey the CSS font (which seems bolded), for the first two
paragraphs only, of Welcome text, unless I put "<b>...</b>" around
them. The same code (without "<b>" has no problem with those first
two paragraphs, with the more normal CSS style sheet for
'Main Galleries' page.
Not important, as it's working but I'd like to understand what might be
hurting things in my html for that root page and slowing text display down.
Thanks!