I have a "severe" background in visual design and user interaction. So I tend to get warm feelings sometimes from well designed objects (D70?) or well built websites. A few days ago I came across this portfolio tool of mr. Turner. I tend to avoid Flash in webdesign as it has some particular limitations and means more development for me. But this is not always the case. I already know from our partnership with Macromedia that they have developped very intelligent and userfriendly interfaces. By downloading and trying this example from mister Turner I got all exicted about dynamic Flash again.
The portfolio tool enables you to connect image galleries to a nice presentation layer in your website. This is documented in XML (Extensible Markup Language, a kind of universal information language). The XML document you can easily change in notepad and add more images and titles.
The nice thing is:
- It visually loads all that is not done yet
- It has some nice interaction in displaying the images (you see the switching)
- It is flexible in size (it rescales when needed)
- You can scroll through the images using left en right cursor!
You can manipulate the colors of the font, borders and background...
Quite cool!
http://www.onlyconnect.nl/portfolio/
Check my first attempt. I will built it into the new website and then I will split up the different categories like "people", "fauna" ,etc...
If you'd like to run your gallery/portfolio with different albums, you should definitely take a look at SimpleViewerAdmin, which I'm the author of. SimpleViewerAdmin can help you with creation, maintenance and upload of your albums and images. But see yourself at http://www.redsplash.de/projects/simplevieweradmin/
Posted by: Christian Machmeier | June 05, 2004 at 11:12 AM