Navigating the New Galleries

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Newer galleries (as of May 2007) have been created in Adobe Lightroom using a version of the "SlimBox" gallery template which I modified significantly. All thumbnails of an individual gallery show up as a long scrolling page. When a thumbnail is clicked, the background window darkens and one gets a larger version of the image in a floating window.

All three image sizes (thumbnail / large / zoomed) are fully colour-managed and saved with embedded sRGB IEC61966-2.1 ICC profiles. Browsers that are ICC compliant will give an accurate colour rendition, whereas others may be slightly off.

In the dark panel below the larger image, the filename and caption (if the image has one) appear in light blue text. Some galleries may also show basic EXIF metadata. The floating image window has various controls as described below:

    Previous Image (keyboard left)
    Next Image (keyboard right)
    Back to thumbnail index page

   [zoom image]  -  Open larger image
   or  [email]  -  Send me an email
   [?]  -  Open help page in a new window
  [ home - galleries - page top ]  -   Links at bottom of index pages go to the home page, the gallery page and the top of the current index page


Note that the left and right arrow keys on your keyboard may be used to move through the images! When your mouse cursor hovers over the left or right side of the displayed image, arrows appear near the top which indicate which direction you will go when clicking. When the correct left or right arrow appears, you can just click directly on the image - you do not have to actually click on the arrow itself! You can also click anywhere behind the floating window on the grayed-out thumbnails to return to the index page.

The new galleries make use of javascript, CSS and XML and should be compatible with the majority of modern web browsers. The galleries have been tested compatible on Mac OS X with current (May 2007) versions of Safari, Firefox, Netscape and Opera as well as on Windows XP with Internet Explorer 7, Firefox, Netscape and Opera. The exception are versions of Windows Internet Explorer prior to 7 as they seem to have a problem with XML declarations. These galleries do not make use of Adobe (Macromedia) Flash or JAVA code.

Netscape users (on both Mac and Windows) are recommended to use their keyboard arrow keys to navigate between larger images as Netscape leaves unsightly lines on the larger images when they are clicked on directly!

Finally, my sincerest apologies to those using older web-browsers or those with slow Internet connections; I do realize that these new galleries are somewhat bandwidth intensive...


Mike Mander
May 2007