Looking for your opinions on best way to display photos on a website

achtungbarry

Hi all,

I am looking for some opinions and feedback on how best to display photos on the website I am building.

Which do you prefer ?

1. A gallery with click-able thumbnails

http://www.barryocarroll.com/apps/photos/album?albumid=6463798

2. A slideshow (that has thumbnails at the bottom when you hover cursor over slideshow)

http://www.barryocarroll.com/travelarticles.htm


Which option did you find easier / more pleasant to use ?

Any feedback and opions (including other opinions on website) greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Barry

Tallon

Slideshows can be messy, especially with slow connections. I prefer the thumbnails.

GhostInTheRuins

I like the slideshow, it just has a more professional feel to it compared to the thumbnails.

Anouilh

The slideshow format seems to be standard, but I like flash header designs on the main page, leaving the option of a blog where updated photos are displayed.

I came across a good piece of advice which I used in the anouilh.wordpress blog. With a display setting of one photo per page, it makes each photo stand out and does not distract the eye.

kjt

I find a hybred of both is good, something like lightroom/lightviewer. If you have a look at the portfolio on my site you'll see what I mean.

Here's a list of gallery's. Hopefully that will help you

Trev M

I like Kjt's layout there , was on the site before and liked the presentation ...good work.

tigerforest

I would definitely go with clickable thumbnails. I'd stay away from slideshows as they are rarely done right on websites. Just remember if your showing thumbnails to create the thumbnails in photoshop (or similar first) as the quality of the thumbnail is far better and quicker to load. When im developing websites i usually include code that enables me to automatically create a thumbnail from the image i upload, however if your trying to show off photos photoshop produces far better quality results but is more time consuming. This link has a nice way of displaying images and takes advantage of the cooliris application too. This link shows what I mean about thumbnails not being resized properly.

Fenster

I split my own website into two parts. Most photos I want to post simply go to my photo page, while those I want to comment on I also add to my blog:

http://www.bhalash.com/main/

http://www.bhalash.com/blog/

Kazujo

kjt wrote: »

Here's a list of gallery's. Hopefully that will help you

Thanks Kjt this is exactly the type of stuff I was looking for too

kjt

Kazujo wrote: »

Thanks Kjt this is exactly the type of stuff I was looking for too

Glad it helped

gary82

kjt wrote: »

I find a hybred of both is good, something like lightroom/lightviewer. If you have a look at the portfolio on my site you'll see what I mean.

Here's a list of gallery's. Hopefully that will help you

Was just going to suggest a lightbox solution to this too. Very easy to implement too. Loads of different versions with slightly different names out there for search around for your favourite.