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dwight - 26 May 2008 15:58 GMT

I picked it up from your pages. It is what the name implies, a simple
viewer, and I'm not sure it's the best way to display photography, but I'm
playing around with it.

Definitely has its uses, such as my walkabout on the Chanticleer Estate with
my new favorite Canon 17-40mmL.
http://www.tfrog.com/digitals/flash/chant/chant1.htm

Still have to work on the navigation from page to page, though. But for a
"simple gallery" of 10 to 20 shots, it's not half bad.

I see you're now using JAlbum, and I guess I'll play with that one, too.

dwight
www.tfrog.com

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Dica Photo - 26 May 2008 16:04 GMT

>I picked it up from your pages. It is what the name implies, a simple
>viewer, and I'm not sure it's the best way to display photography, but I'm
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> dwight
> www.tfrog.com

Lol.......Focus has Simpleviewer from me.................................

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Paul Furman - 26 May 2008 16:06 GMT

> I picked it up from your pages. It is what the name implies, a simple
> viewer, and I'm not sure it's the best way to display photography, but I'm
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> my new favorite Canon 17-40mmL.
> http://www.tfrog.com/digitals/flash/chant/chant1.htm

The photos run off the bottom of my Firefox screen with no scroll bar to
get to the whole thing.

> Still have to work on the navigation from page to page, though. But for a
> "simple gallery" of 10 to 20 shots, it's not half bad.
>
> I see you're now using JAlbum, and I guess I'll play with that one, too.

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dwight - 26 May 2008 20:05 GMT

>> I picked it up from your pages. It is what the name implies, a simple
>> viewer, and I'm not sure it's the best way to display photography, but
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> The photos run off the bottom of my Firefox screen with no scroll bar to
> get to the whole thing.

Thanks, Paul. SimpleViewer is supposed to automatically resize to fit your
browser window, and the main photo was flush-aligned with the bottom of your
screen. I'm not sure that you were actually missing anything.

Regardless, I've tweaked the pages to allow for a static display and
scrollbars.

dwight

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Paul Furman - 26 May 2008 21:00 GMT

> Paul Furman wrote
>>> I picked it up from your pages. It is what the name implies, a simple
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>> The photos run off the bottom of my Firefox screen with no scroll bar to
>> get to the whole thing.

It was actually clipping. If I maximized the window I could see more image.

> Thanks, Paul. SimpleViewer is supposed to automatically resize to fit your
> browser window, and the main photo was flush-aligned with the bottom of your
> screen. I'm not sure that you were actually missing anything.
>
> Regardless, I've tweaked the pages to allow for a static display and
> scrollbars.

That works!

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Frankster - 26 May 2008 16:17 GMT

Nice shots dwight.

And yep, it's things like picking up on simple viewer that really make these
newsgroups worthwhile. It caused me also to investigate some new ways to
display photos. I guess the trick is to just ignore the hecklers and enjoy
the sharing of info and photos. (what a concept!)

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dwight - 28 May 2008 01:17 GMT

>>I picked it up from your pages. It is what the name implies, a simple
>>viewer, and I'm not sure it's the best way to display photography, but I'm
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>
> -Frank

What hecklers?

The reason that I like albums such as SimpleViewer is that it makes it so
much easier to change content periodically. I've been using a static display
of a 190pixel thumb, linked to a much larger image to open in a separate
window. I like offering a 1600pixel large size version (or, indeed, the full
original), but that's a PIA way to do things. With galleries, it's far
simpler to drag, drop, and just type in new file names.

Currently, the main images are a max 800 X 533, but for collections like my
Chanticleer images, that's probably sufficient.

dwight

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-=Rob - 26 May 2008 22:00 GMT

dwight schreef:

> I picked it up from your pages. It is what the name implies, a simple
> viewer, and I'm not sure it's the best way to display photography, but I'm
> playing around with it.

Another thing worth trying out :
Let Picasa (with the special SimpleViewer template) do the work for you.

I don't use Picasa for post-processing, just for managing my pictures.
Within Picasa it is so much easier to drag your pictures in the right place.
And then use the SimpleViewer template and Picasa makes the HTML for you.

TEMPLATE :
Change the 'header.xml'-file from the template to change the background
(JPEG), position of your thumbnails, textcolor etc.

HTML :
After you have generated the HTML, you can also change the
'gallery.xml'-file here. Even so you can change this file directly on
your website (with a FTP with EDIT possibilities : CoreFTP) without
generating your album again !

Try the template : http://tinyurl.com/gvvh3

-=Rob

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dwight - 28 May 2008 01:20 GMT

> dwight schreef:
>> I picked it up from your pages. It is what the name implies, a simple
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> -=Rob

Thanks, Rob. Just took a quick look-see, and this looks promising. I'll play
around with it this week.

dwight

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Focus - 26 May 2008 22:08 GMT

Nice pictures, Dwight.

The music is cool too. How did you do that? With Simpleviewer or something
different'
I didn't think about music before, but now I'm starting to like it ;-)

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dwight - 27 May 2008 01:41 GMT

>>I picked it up from your pages. It is what the name implies, a simple
>>viewer, and I'm not sure it's the best way to display photography, but I'm
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>
> Regards,

I added my own recordings to those pages, using the same Flash player you'll
find on any of my audio pages. In this case, the Flash player is only 1
pixel, so it's all but invisible on the page, and the autoplay is on.

Find the player and instructions here: http://musicplayer.sourceforge.net/

dwight

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Alan Browne - 26 May 2008 22:28 GMT

the only thing you should improve is adding an option to kill the music.

-irritating
-bandwidth wasting

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Paul Furman - 26 May 2008 23:33 GMT

>> I picked it up from your pages. It is what the name implies, a simple
>> viewer, and I'm not sure it's the best way to display photography, but
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> -irritating
> -bandwidth wasting

Music also doesn't work in Firefox :-) though it can be nice if
optional. I really do like being able to scroll through the set with my
mouse wheel (middle button). Enjoyed the scenery too :-)

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me@mine.net - 27 May 2008 00:00 GMT

>Music also doesn't work in Firefox :-) though it can be nice if
>optional.

Unfortunately, the music works for me in FF2.0.0.14 under XP64. I would
much greatly prefer an option to enable it if wanted. So does the viewer.
Though I don't understand anyone presenting photographs wanting to present
them in a way that arbitrarily scales them. You lose all control over
proper sharpening for the image as presented.

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