July 3, 2006Improved photo galleries
The Week in Photos has now been converted from the older, Flash-based gallery, to the new JavaScript and XHTML driven model. Oh, and you can now buy most any photo you see in the gallery through a new service offering called Pictopia. But back to the galleries. The primary difference between the old galleries and the new ones is the way they are presented to the user. We used a Flash-based program called SlideShowPro through most of the past year with fairly good results. However the method for updating and building those galleries was time-consuming, and expensive -- Adobe's Flash software isn't cheap. We also wanted the ability to tie in the aforementioned ability to allow users to easily purchase photos from the galleries, something that would require significant modification to the Flash model. The solution, and the resulting new galleries, was handled through a mixture of JavaScript, XML and XHTML. Now we can control the look of the galleries to a higher degree, and still provide a fancy-pants transition like the Flash gallery. |
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