Slide show

[Frenchy]

Hi there, I was wondering if someone would take a look at my home page and see if there is a reason the slide show is working kind of quirky.

It is far from smooth, I don't know if I just have to live with it or there is something off in the code,

Also how do I enlarge the photo previews in the gallery section like in Andy's http://www.moonriverphotography.com/Galleries


Thanks,

Matt

[oxy8384]

Hi there, I was wondering if someone would take a look at my home page and see if there is a reason the slide show is working kind of quirky.

It is far from smooth, I don't know if I just have to live with it or there is something off in the code,

Also how do I enlarge the photo previews in the gallery section like in Andy's http://www.moonriverphotography.com/Galleries


Thanks,

Matt

Looks just fine in FireFox 2; a little jerky in Netscape 7. Each has a different javascript engine and that may be the difference. Keep in mind that the code to cycle the images is running on the viewer's machine, not on the smugmug server. There are a bunch of things that can affect the smoothness: CPU speed, Javascript engine efficiency, and image size. You only have control over the image size. My first suggestion would be to reduce your photoSize parameters for two reasons:
1) it will smooth out most of your jerkiness, probably.
2) it will allow your viewers to see the whole image without having to scroll down or right. Keep in mind that the majority of screens these days are set at either 800x600 or 1024x768 pixels. For images, especially, people want to be able to see the whole picture on their screen at once. You could then let them select the large (or original) size view inside your galleries.

Bill

[Frenchy]

Thanks Bill,

any suggestions on getting the gallery preview thumbs larger

[oxy8384]

After a bunch of research, I've concluded that Smugmug dictates thumbnail size. If you have more than 6 galleries, you get the smaller thumbnails (max dimension 100px; file suffix '-Ti'). 6 or fewer galleries and you get the big ones (max dimension 150px; file suffix '-Th'). There is certainly stuff you could do in javascript to change which thumbnail file to use, but that tends to throw off other parts of your layout, so it can get messy and complex pretty quickly.

Depends how bad you want bigger thumbnails....:dunno

Bill