Thursday, September 07, 2006

Photo Album Update


In the first post I mentioned my work developing a photo album but didn't show the current implementation nor mention that albums were available. So here is the update. The albums are provided by Cyber Services which developed the database backend and host the service. The service uploads your original and provides multiple sizes for optimizing display speed. The newest implementation was designed to be non-intrusive and subtile. A large photo is shown centrally while thumbnails are available by mouse on the right. The thumbnail photos scroll quadratically with mouse position from the center and the photo number is displayed. Selection of the thumbnail brings up the full image. Along the bottom there are buttons for a slide show and the photo caption with pop up comments. Multiple categories are supported with loading in the background. Various tools are provided for email notification when pictures are added, for uploading or emailing photos, for adding comments, and for administrating the album. Finally, a search box permits finding pictures or special slide shows by key words. Go take a look for yourself and try your own album.

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