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Scroll bar on Gallery list instead of more link

Last post 01-04-2008 2:13 PM by nkwilliams. 2 replies.
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  • 12-30-2007 3:03 AM

    Big Smile [:D] Scroll bar on Gallery list instead of more link

    Is is possible to configure shozam to have a scrollbar down the right hand side of the gallery list, I am running the business edition trial at the moment, and have managed to load 1200 images in 19 galleries in under 40 minutes which is amazing. The only thing is I want visitors to my site to be able to quickly and easily see how many and what each of the galleries are rather than having to click through the more... (which gives no indiciation of how many galleries or where you are in the list.

     Having a scroll bar here so you can easily see would make this perfect for me.

     Regards

     Nigel...

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  • 01-01-2008 6:47 PM In reply to

    Re: Scroll bar on Gallery list instead of more link

    Nigel,

    For now what could help is to direct visitors to the "Index" page, where they can see at a glance not only the albums but all images. Also, you could customize the "More" labels to something more meaningful or "eye-catching" for your visitors. You can customize all labels on the Label tab in Step 5 of Shozam.

    Running a scrollbar in the middle of the page was dropped when we moved from Web Gallery Wizard (our old product) to Shozam because of a number of drawbacks:

    Scrollbars can look unsightly and out of context from the gallery theme. Internet Explorer offers ways to customize the look of the scrollbar but unfortunately this is not supported by other browsers. Years ago, when IE was almost exclusively used, that was OK. Now we have to be as good displaying in several browsers.

    Another issue is to have a scrollbar just for the album listing section of the page means implementing that region as an HTML IFRAME and frames have inherent drawbacks so are usually not used any longer in modern Web site design.

    We could just extend the whole page, rather than just the album list section, where the scrollbar would appear at the far right of the page and as such would not really conflict with the aesthetics of the page design. The single negative impact would be the appearance of a void between the intro animation and the bottom bar of the gallery. Given the additional functionality gain, this may be an acceptable trade-off.

    I would be interested in what you (and other users) think about such a trade-off...

    Razvan Neagu
    Shozam Web Gallery Generator
    Executive Team
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  • 01-04-2008 2:13 PM In reply to

    Re: Scroll bar on Gallery list instead of more link

    I understand your points here, and understand the trade-off of using a page scroll bar. This would not matter for my use as I am not planning to use intro animations in any great anger.

    If there could be an option when you create your gallery to use fixed size or have scroll bars, and maybe also where scroll bars are initiated have another option for where the intro should be positioned. Although I guess centre top or centre right would be the best placed options....

    • Post Points: 5
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