sonesay
Nov 26 2008, 08:38 PM
http://sonesayi.com/si/portfolio.phpHey guys, In the past few days I was making changes to how I uploaded my images and portfolio entries. I now have a working form that takes new portfolio item entries and images then generates thumbnails as well when its uploaded. This makes my life easier when adding in new items  . My problem is that now since the thumb nails are generated automatically and vary in size due to the different heights and widths of each image I get inconsistent thumbnail sizes being generated and put on my portfolio entries. This results in my DIV for each portfolio entries height and width being inconsistent. This is not a huge problem but I want to know what others think. is it really a big deal to you? If so are they any ideas on how to improve the layout? The reason I have chosen go with floating DIV's instead of a table layout is I get the auto spreading and grouping of items as the page gets expanded. I think this is a nice feature because you utilize the entire page as opposed to fix width layouts. Comments on other sections are also welcomed and much appreciated. I'm pretty much brain dead from all this thinking so I may have miss something I could improve on that is so obvious. Cheers Sone note: also I am able to check in IE7 since my PC's power supply is dead so if anyone can check and let me know of any problems that would be nice.
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onscreen
Nov 27 2008, 04:32 AM
floating DIVs kill your layout. It is all overlapped viewed in Opera and Firefox. What you need is a fluid CSS layout where everything from header to content expand and shrink accordingly without the messed up layout. This link should give you a headstart : http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/2005..._width_elastic/Also, do not rely on one browser in making sites. Make full use of the If..EndIf at the html headers to make workaround for other browsers. Example : <!--[if lt IE 8]><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/css/ie.css" media="screen"><![endif]--> Explaination : if lower than IE 8, link the herf css for IE 8 browser viewing. End if.
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sonesay
Nov 27 2008, 10:09 AM
QUOTE(onscreen @ Nov 27 2008, 05:32 PM)  floating DIVs kill your layout. It is all overlapped viewed in Opera and Firefox. What you need is a fluid CSS layout where everything from header to content expand and shrink accordingly without the messed up layout. This link should give you a headstart : http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/2005..._width_elastic/Also, do not rely on one browser in making sites. Make full use of the If..EndIf at the html headers to make workaround for other browsers. Example : <!--[if lt IE 8]><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/css/ie.css" media="screen"><![endif]--> Explaination : if lower than IE 8, link the herf css for IE 8 browser viewing. End if. Ok maybe its my fault that I wasn't clear enough. I tried my best but I cant seem to understand how you came to the conclusion that I had a problem with my layout by referring me to that link. The link you gave me just explained a way to create elastic layouts but I have a fixed width for my navigation and elastic content already. I stated on my 3rd paragraph that I was happy with the way it expanded. My only problem was the inconsistent heights of the DIV for each portfolio items entry. I actually like the wrapping of the portfolio items as widths contracted. My problem was with the inconsistent heights. You say they overlap in firefox and Opera? What do you mean my portfolio items are overlapping? Can you take a screen shot and show me because I don't see that happening. Also what resolution are you viewing it at? I checked in ff3 and opera and it seems fine besides the height problem of item DIV's. There is a minimum width set so on both ff3 and opera and safari I get at least 2 portfolio items shown on each row. If all this problem is on IE7 I can understand as I have not got access to the browser and cannot check it for myself.
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jlhaslip
Nov 27 2008, 01:35 PM
Might want to check out this sourceforge software that manages the creation of thumbnails. You can specify the destination size and aspect so that the original shape is maintained, watermark them, add effects and several other features. A very complete thumbnail creation system. http://phpthumb.sourceforge.net/Try http://www.zubrag.com/scripts/thumbnail-generator.phpOr http://www.google.ca/search?q=php+script+t...lient=firefox-a
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Ruben
Nov 27 2008, 05:35 PM
To me there was one problem. When I first entered the site it looked jumbled, and I had no clue about what it was about. Now, your work looks great, but it shows that you aren't too into web design.  You need to lay it out better, but everything lined up maybe. All for now, hope you like it. Overall: 6/10
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sonesay
Nov 27 2008, 10:29 PM
Thanks for the link jlhaslip. The script that I am currently using does keep aspect ratios the same. The problem is caused by different image sizes (The sizes vary and ratios vary for each image so the generated thumbs are just a smaller version of that). I seem to have fixed this by adding a div to contain the image and then setting a minimum height. I appears to be fine in ff3, safari 3.2, and opera 9.62. If anyone can check in IE that would be great.
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jlhaslip
Nov 28 2008, 02:15 AM
IE 6 won't like the min height. Can't recall if IE 7 and 8 work, either.
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contactskn
Dec 1 2008, 10:44 AM
Dear friend I have gone through your website and its a good one. What I think is the contents are really good and you should go for a good and professional look now. I am sure a bit change in the background and colour may give a catchy look to your website. And it will in turn attract more and more people towards your website.
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sonesay
Feb 2 2009, 10:26 AM
I've made some updates and have decided to lose the lightbox gallery. http://sonesayi.com/si/portfolio.php I think its much more subtle and elegant this time round. Any comments appreciated. I have tested the layout in IE7 using http://browsershots.org and see no errors but I cant test out the ajax calls since it only takes screenshots. If anyone can test it on IE7 much thanks. I will be changing it a bit so check back in a day or two (using JQuery now. great library if you haven't already tried it )
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Saint_Michael
Feb 4 2009, 10:53 PM
After looking at your site and working on my portfolio I would say you should move your site to a wordpress as you can do a lot more with it in less time, especially with images, about page, resume and stuff like that. take a look at my portfolio to get an idea how to set it up or at least the pages and the images and what not and if you need plugin suggestions if you do decide to move over to wordpress let me know and I give you all the ones that I am using/
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Alex Cicala
Apr 6 2009, 12:30 AM
I like the new update, very well done. Personally I dont like the width of the site. [anyway dont take that into account I dont like large widths.] I'm rating it 7.5/10, i think the navibar needs a facelift, but everything else is super 
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sonesay
Feb 15 2009, 10:22 PM
Gallery and Header updated! I've added a link on the main home page linking to the gallery when you click on the "view full-size image" link. It seems to be working on all browsers (sometimes opera and IE7 fail due to image size not getting obtained. I will need to fix this later when I have some time). I would say it works like 90% of the time on the min-width resizing lol. I changed the header a bit just seeing what will look good. Any bugs I missed please let me know thanks.
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sonesay
Feb 9 2009, 10:10 AM
Thats a nice flash site. I will take a good thorough look a little later on. I just happen to fix my rendering problem with images larger then the screen on IE7 and Opera. I found out there are differences on how they read images sizes compared to firefox and safari hence the min-width value not kicking in. You can look at the source code of the si.js if you really want to see. Anything else I missed? I'm interested in building a flash gallery like the one you showed me too so maybe that will be my next project. I have to say flash has advanced a lot since I touched on it a few years back. edit: I just saw your other post. Thats not a bad layout design. I don't think I can change it as easily now even if I really wanted to, since it seems to be ok as of now I will carry on but I would like to create a flash gallery soon just to see what it can do.
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novoAlias
Feb 9 2009, 09:24 AM
And incidentally here is an example of a full screen website that I would consider to be worthwhile: http://www.cassettenine.com/You might notice a couple of things about it, 1. It's completely flash/xml based, 2. The actual information is in a trendy small box with the nav bar at the top 3. The music only has three tracks which is really annoying 4. It's got many small touches that are only possible with fullscreen So really I think you should ask yourself WHY you are using full screen and putting the extra effort into coding if a centered box would be just as effective and a bazillion times easier to code. Don't worry, I went through exactly this problem while making my website. If you want to see what I did and why heres my process http://novoaliasuni.blogspot.com/search/label/Website
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novoAlias
Feb 9 2009, 09:11 AM
QUOTE (sonesay @ Feb 6 2009, 09:00 AM) I previously had a light box gallery but I've chosen to move away from that. Flash gallery I might consider if this doesn't work out well.
Yeah the re size problem is something I just realized since truefusion mentioned it. I'm working on and tested out a javascript solution to get the width of the image and reset the min-width of the body and it seems to work but currently Its buggy since the image is being retrieved by ajax and I get inconsistent width values 0 or its real value. A problem I am currently working on.
You mean create a text description gallery then replace it with full size images when clicked on? Or do you mean show text descriptions on hover then replace with image when selected? that would be a good way to do it. I was considering javascript pop up windows for more description/info but that last idea isn't bad either.
I am going for a layout where it will use the maximum width of a users screen resolution so I will definitely not be using any standard fix width sizes. If it doesn't work then I may have to resort to that.
Also I'm curious to what screen resolution and browser your are using? Im using FF3, with a resolution of 1680X1050 (X2, dual screens =D) I had a play with your current gallery style in photoshop... I think this would work well if you made the image go full screen if you clicked on the window. I think auto resizing is an alright idea but unless you have stupid amounts of information/visual language to fill up the screen it is a bit of a waste... Anyway this is the result of me having your site open and seeing if i could make it look visually appealing while keeping the same elements/functionality. Very quick, just the very basics.. Anyway here you go.
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