Photo gallery updates

05-01-2008

Thanks for the kind words!

I've created a new UK/Ireland section in the gallery and moved the other galleries into there from the European section. I've also created an "Other UK/Ireland" gallery.

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05-01-2008

Thanks Sim, really enjoying the "new" galleries...

Love the site too..!

05-01-2008

Thanks NZ Jeremy ... I must say I'm blown away by the discussions happening here now ... the growth has been fantastic over the past few months.

We now have more traffic coming from our UK members than we have from our Australian members ... and overall our 300 or so members here generate more traffic than one of my other forums which has over 3000 members !!

I'm really impressed with all the photos in the gallery too - that's becoming a fantastic resource.

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05-01-2008

Hmmm... I think it may be because a persons interest has already gone beyond casual (usually) before they search out a site such as this, I guess passionate people post a lot...

The larger the galleries get, the more members should result, (hopefully) when a google or yahoo search "results" on one of the images on your site and attracts attention...

Was that other site invested..?

Keep up the fantastic work..!

05-01-2008

I was thinking the same thing recently. Even just since I joined, which wasn't too long ago, so many new experts (if I may use the term) and people with expert opinions have joined up. Its a fantastic site.

06-01-2008

By the way - if you are wanting to include photos from the gallery in your post, there are a couple of new options for this.

If you look for the "Linked Thumbnail" option and paste that into your post you'll get this:



But then if you click on the little icon at the end of that line: ... you'll get two more options.

The "Linked Medium" option looks like this:



One of these days when I find some time, I'll spend some time improving how that all works - but it does the job for now.

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06-01-2008

hay sim, love new layout of pics! Just one thing, i am not fussed on the one thing. you used to be able to click on the picture, and it would come to full size that the member added. do you get me? sorry not very pc literate. Can i get the full size pic any othe rway. (just i like to be able to get a full pic, to see more detail, such as the new lion/tiger exhibit pics added, i can oly get a avergae pic)

06-01-2008

You should be able to click on the "medium" image in the gallery and it will open up in a "lightbox" optimised to your screen size. This is better than the old way it used to work - since you couldn't see the whole image at once.

If you also want to see the raw file - I can put a link in place that allows you to access that more easily.

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06-01-2008

yea thts awesome, i honestly dont like the 'light box', cause its basically just the same image, size and all. so yea a link to the raw file would b great!

06-01-2008

What resolution is your screen running at ? You must be at very low resolution to only see a small image. You aren't running at 800x600 are you ?

The Lightbox works well when you have a high res screen - you see the same "medium" image as everyone else, but when you click the lightbox, you get close to the best resolution you can on your monitor (that is assuming the original photo was higher than 600px resolution!)

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06-01-2008

i have no idea. its not a small image, but as it normally was, and when the light box opens, its the same size as original. i just liked it when you clicked on the image, it came up as a bigger image, that you could actually see more stuff, specially for images of exhibits.

06-01-2008

Could you actually see the entire image at once, or did you have to scroll to see it ?

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06-01-2008

scoll, thtas how it used to be (when open in new window). Tht was good, get more detail/zoom. (depending on original image size)

im at 1024x 768- normal i think.

06-01-2008

By the way - I should warn everyone ... if you link to a photo from the gallery in your forum post and then move that photo to a new gallery category, the photo will no longer show up in the forum, since (unfortunately), the path to the photo includes the category in the name (which is a really silly thing to do from a design point of view).

It's not that big of a deal - just something you need to be aware of.

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06-01-2008

kool, thnx sim!