New Gallery

I spent the rainy weekend working on my gallery, and think it looks pretty good right now. I still have a bunch of photos to upload, but "the look" is what I want (I think). I wanted to run it by folks to get any second ideas.

http://scottes.smugmug​.com/

Any comments are appreciated.

Too boring?
Slideshow too big/slow/fast - or does it just plain suck to have a slideshow?
If you hate slideshows: Were you able to find a way to leave the slideshow easily and quickly?
Anything out of whack on any gallery?
Do you miss having a "Galleries" page, with a thumbnail per gallery?
Any comments are appreciated. Feel free to be Harsh.


BTW, I am not a professional, nor am I looking to make money off this hobby. (I once had a hobby that turned into a business and it completely ruined the hobby for me.) Thus, there's no contact info, no bio, no way to purchase a print, etc. This gallery is just a place to share my favorite photos, like friends and co-workers who might want to see them (or get forced to ).

But I am debating on putting in a contact page that may just contain an email "just in case" though I can't think of any case where I'd need such contact. Has anyone ever had something interesting happen because of an email from someone viewing your gallery? I don't need any more spam...

Along the same lines, do I *really* care if Google ever indexes my gallery? Anyone have an example of why I might want to consider meta-tags and such?

The only problem I see is the dead space to the right. Fix that and I think you'll be set.

Dead space to the right of my logo ("Scottes' Photos") ?

Yeah, that's been bugging me a little. Any ideas on what to fill it with?? My imagination is challenged when it comes to creative stuff...

The "dead space" on your logo is fine. I'm talking about having to scroll right to see basically blackness.

Change your CSS code to say:

/****** Banner ******/
#my_banner { width: auto; height: 80px; margin: 0 auto;
background: url(http://scottes.smugmug​.com …s/569986935_Cwz​JX-O-3.jpg) no-repeat;
}


That should take care of that. If not, let me know...

Aah, I have it. However, the graphic I use contains the text "Scottes' Photos" - I fear that "width: auto" will stretch the text, too. This would be the right fix if "Scottes' Photos" were text, but it's a JPG.

I may just get rid of that banner, now that I think about this. I had plans that have since been scrapped, like building my NavBar into the banner and having a graphic to the left of my name. Since I'm not doing these things I could just use plain HTML text. But then I think I'd lose the gradient black-to-background.


Edit: I'm wrong, you're right. That "width: auto" fixed it nicely. Thanks!

Nope, it won't stretch your logo.

Looks good now!

I just checked your jpg. You can just crop the extra black background.

Look at my website. My logo is only a small image (300 x 70px}.

Your logo has a solid color, whereas mine has the gradient from black-to-background. I think mine will screw up, but since you've already proved me wrong once then I will try it tonight after work.

Scottes wrote in post #8154229
I may just get rid of that banner, now that I think about this. I had plans that have since been scrapped, like building my NavBar into the banner and having a graphic to the left of my name. Since I'm not doing these things I could just use plain HTML text. But then I think I'd lose the gradient black-to-background.

You can use a a gradient background like this:

/****** Banner ******/
#my_banner { width: auto; height: 80px; margin: 0 auto;
background:#333333 url(http://scottes.smu​gmug.com/photos/"YourG​radientBackground.gif"​) repeat-x;
}

Then you can use regular text.

Edit: You just need to copy the image I posted to your folder and re-name it to suit your preference!

Yep, that would work. Just a 1-pixel wide gradient, stretched...

Alas, all this talk has got me to thinking that I'd like a logo of some sort. I may have to talk to a few artist friends and see if they can come up with something... Then I'll keep the "fancy" text I have and put the logo to the left of my name. We'll see.

Thanks for all the help Mike.

Technically, it doesn't stretch it, it tiles it horizontally.

Glad to help...I was bored!

EDIT: My kids liked your cat photos...

Yep, tiles... It's been about 12 or 13 years since I've done HTML. I spent 20 minutes last night banging my head because I missed a / in a </a>.


For your kids: https://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthre​ad.php?t=124879
More of my cats, and a little bit of info about each one.

Scottes wrote in post #8154713
Yep, tiles... It's been about 12 or 13 years since I've done HTML. I spent 20 minutes last night banging my head because I missed a / in a </a>.

Boy do I know about that!!

Scottes wrote in post #8154713
For your kids: https://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthre​ad.php?t=124879
More of my cats, and a little bit of info about each one.

At one point we had 4 cats, but eventually old-age....Now we have one cat, one dog and two pet mice.

I let them know when they get back.

I really like it, almost made me consider smugmug again.