Photo Gallery Question

[WxGuy1]

Another question...

I'm looking at changing how I display pictures on my site. My current setup is as follows: a frameset, with the narrow left frame and a large right frame. In the left frame is a column of thumbnails, which, when pressed, loads an html page into the right frame. The right frame, then, contains the more-'full-size' image and some other information. For example: go to www.tornadocentral.com/chasing.shtml, and click on Media>>May 8th, 2003. This whole 'frames' issue has it's problems, including the fact that 'frames' are so 20th century (LOL) and the fact that I run into problems when I do have more thumbnails (e.g. www.tornadocentral.com/chasing.shtml >> Media >> July 14th, 2003 or August 9th, 1999. Since I javascript the 'popup' windows to be a particular size, if the left-frame gets long due to many thumbnails, I end up w/ a scroll bar. Now, I could just cut that left frame in half and have a "(More)" at the bottom that, when clicked, will launch another left-frame file with the remaining pics. Since I have recoded the rest of the site to get rid of frames, I also want to de-frame my 'picture' pages. I have looked at various galleries, including Gallery and PhotoStack, but (a) I don't really have too many pictures, and ( I would like to retain all the text information that is displayed with each picture (e.g.. date, location, heading, other information). Any suggestions? Thanks!

 

Jeff Snyder

www.tornadocentral.com

[natimage]

Hi, Jeff.

 

This is certainly not a fancy gallery, but the idea behind it would allow you to keep your content. http://www.rangecall.com/2003GalleryRodeo.php

 

Check that out, but beware that the site is not finished. If you try to browse around, your likely to find dead links. 2003 Gallery, Concert and Rodeo Gallery are all that's complete! Click on one of the thumbnails to see how I set up the larger version files.

 

Good luck!