Photo gallery updates

Photo gallery updates
04-01-2008

I've upgraded the photo gallery software - and there's a couple of new features in this version (mostly usability features).

I've added a new gallery for Chester Zoo (as requested by some members) and have moved some of the photos into this forum (the ones which were clearly marked as being from Chester). If you have other photos from Chester Zoo which are not in the new forum, either move them to the new forum (I'm not sure if you can actually move your own photos ?) or point me to the photos and I'll move them for you.

If there are any other gallery topics (or forum topics for that matter) which would be useful - please let me know and I'll create them.

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04-01-2008

Thanks Sim. It looks Amazing!!!!!

04-01-2008

Sim there was a gallery wanted for birds of paradise

04-01-2008

Thanks for that Sim! The changes look really good!

There are few of my Chester Zoo photos still in the european zoo gallery
- Asian Plains
- Mandrill at Chester Zoo
- Rhinos at Chester Zoo
- Komodo Dragon at Chester Zoo
- Elephants at Chester Zoo
- Indian Rhino (Patna) at Chester Zoo
- Orang Utan at Chester Zoo (there's two of these)
- Otters at Chester Zoo
- Ring-Tail Lemurs at Chester Zoo
- Red Panda at Chester Zoo
- Dragons in Danger
- Realm of the Red Ape
- Realm of the Red Ape Model
- Secret World of the Okapi
- Spirit of the Jaguar
- Tsavo Black Rhino House

Sim, if it helps, i could delete them and then re-upload them into the new gallery...

04-01-2008

Thanks - I've created a Birds of Paradise gallery under Animals.

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04-01-2008

Actually I found a setting that should allow members to move their own photos ... so feel free to try moving them to the Chester gallery.

Let me know if you have any problems.

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05-01-2008

Sim

Many of the photos now appear to be different sizes, which do not neccesarily correspond to the original size of the picture. Why is this?

D

05-01-2008

Could you make a pheasant gallery, a hornbill Gallery, a blackbrook gallery and a Parrot gallery please Sim?

05-01-2008

Hi Sim, first of all i wanted to say what great website u have here, it must have been and still is hard work for you, so on behalf of everyone here thank you for all you have put into the site.
Could you perhaps change either the Port lympne or Howletts galleries into "other British zoo" gallery?

05-01-2008

Yeah i think Kiang is right, a British Zoo gallery would be good and merge the Howletts and Port Lymohe ones into it.

05-01-2008

Maybe it's because it's Friday evening, but I can't see any way to move my Chester photos to the new gallery. How can I do it?

Alan

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05-01-2008

gentle lemur, it is in the 'edit' section on each photo...

05-01-2008

Thank you! I've got them all sorted now.

Alan

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05-01-2008

I'm not exactly sure what you mean.

There are four versions of each photo now.

1. the thumbnail that gets displayed in the galleries - this is now larger than previously

2. the "medium" sized image which is created when then original image is more than 540px wide - this size was chosen because it fits the forum posts exactly.

3. the "original" or "large" photo which is resized down to no more than 2500px in dimensions, or left in original format if it is larger.

4. when you click on the medium photo in order to display the large photo, we now use a "lightbox" to display the large photo at the best size to fit your computer monitor. If you have an 800x600 resolution screen, it should be scaled down to fit, while if you have a higher resolution screen (and the image is large enough), you should see a higher res version. You need javascript enabled and a fairly recent broswer for this to work properly.

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05-01-2008

All done now!

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