Hi Brian,
The buttons you refer to allow one to return to the main menu, but there is no
way to move from one image to another WITHIN a gallery. So if I am looking at
the Red Dahlia in your Flowers gallery, the only way to go to the next image is
to click on FLOWERS on the right and then click on the desired thumbnail. This
is a major deficiency, as it forces the browsing viewer to click twice as often
as would be the case if you had a facility to navigate from one image to the
next--standard practice in every gallery I have ever seen in recent years.
Furthermore, why are the images so tiny? I have looked at a few of them, and
you seem to have standardized on 350 pixels on the long side--that is hardly
bigger than the thumbnails in some other people's galleries.
Many of your images are magnificent, but the above two deficiencies greatly
detract from the pleasure of visiting your site.
Cheers,
Nathan
Nathan Wajsman
Alicante, Spain
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On Dec 25, 2010, at 9:30 PM, Brian Swale wrote:
> Moose and Chris have exhorted me to add <up> <down> <left> and
> <right> buttons on my
>
> http://www.brianswale.com/ pages,
> and I objected to doing that (because of the tedium of it, and the limited
> real
> estate available on each page).
>
> As I was mulling over these discussions in my sleep afterwards, I realised
> that these buttons ARE ALREADY THERE (not shouting) but maybe in a
> form that neither recognise.
>
> Apart from a few early pages that I might not have corrected, EVERY image
> page has ALL the navigation buttons a visitor needs.
>
> On the left are the base level directories. These are addressed by absolute
> URLs not by relative URLs, so there should never be an error in getting
> there straight away.
>
> Similarly, on the right, are all the the major subject gallery addresses,
> again,
> as absolute URLs not as relative URLs. And once you have been to (say)
> the Flower gallery and want to return there, since your browser cache should
> still have all the link images etc, your return trip should be as fast as
> your
> browser software can re-display stuff from virtual memory.
>
> The buttons are already there. Every page has them. Is that too hard?
>
> Next, as a result of this discussion, I realised that laptop computers and
> the
> like have become very popular. Yes, I'm not interested in one, but others
> are.
>
> I'm assuming that somebody using one if these with a screen smaller than
> 800 x 600 pixels can't be serious about purchasing an image because
> there's no way they will see a decent image of even the reduced size (400 x
> whatever pixels) that my subject pages have. They'll have to get on a decent
> machine.
>
> SO, if you are using one of the newer laptops, and I presume with no rodent
> (mouse) how do you navigate from place to place?
>
> If you are doing a Google search, and from the middle of page 5 of the
> search, you want to go back to the previous page, how do you achieve that?
>
> I'd actually like to do a survey on these pages to find out who uses such a
> laptop as their main computer, and who uses a desktop as their main
> computer. Just to get an idea of computer population trends.
>
> Cheers ....
>
> Brian Swale.
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