Photos from SA and a minor facelift
Tuesday, 3rd June 2008 by Julie
It’s taken a little while to get organised but I’ve finally got the photos from our trip to South Africa into some semblance of order. AND I’ve completed (with help from Tom) some upgrades to our photo pages. 
Most of the changes are on the page that displays an individual photo, as shown on the left.
For the observant among you, the revised design and behaviour does pay more than a passing nod to the ubiquitous Facebook. But there again, they did have some clever ideas when it came to displaying photos. 
The biggest ease-of-use feature for me, is the ability to click on the picture itself to display the next one. That’s one I borrowed straight from Facebook, along with the cute button shading on the Next and Previous links.
But a cool feature that we added (well, okay, Tom added) is the link on the right of the photo to “Download full-size”. This gives a link straight to the original photo, obviously a bigger download, but much more suitable for zooming in or printing out if required.
This extra facility meant that we could set the ordinary size of the basic image to be a bit smaller (to suit our bandwidth-starved friends and family in SA) without depriving them of the one or two they wanted to see a little larger or print. 
Click here to view the latest album.
