Looking for an elegant way to display graphics

I'm enjoying these forums so much.

My question relates to a set of pages I maintain to display examples of my woven beadwork--small articles of jewelry. I have these as JPEG's, and the images are pretty good. At the moment, I have sets of thumbnails and descriptions just lined out in tables--click on a thumbnail and a new window opens displaying the full-sized graphic. I only have about four thumbnails per page so as not to drive people to distraction as they wait for all of them to load.

It's very simple and workable, and very boring!

I've learned a lot since installing the pages. I can work with JavaScript mouseovers now, know how to pre-load the images, can work with frames--nothing too razzle-dazzle, but I feel like my feet are under me.

I'm wondering if anyone has any ideas or suggestions about how to make a more effective, enticing, attractive display out of all this. I don't sell the beadwork. I just want people to enjoy looking at it.

Thanks,

Anne

Hi, glad you like the forums!

You could do some really cool things with Flash if you have that - it makes for a some fantastic interfaces.

Other than that you could try a cute frameset like the Elated PageKit called "chopper" (www.elated.com/pagekits/chopper/) with the image coming up in the centre?

Simon

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Thanks, Simon,

I will download Chopper and study it. I have Flash but haven't progressed very far in using it effectively -- but I sure am having fun with it. I found a Flash site maintained by Kodak that is an exhibition of photographs and a journal, and it's become my ideal. But I have a long way to go before I get there.

Anne

Cool. I liked an old Kodak site which used draggable frames as curtains for the content. Which is this one?

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This one is their photographic essay on the "Endurance," a ship that sailed to Antarctica early in the 20th century. I believe it's done using Flash, and if so, it certainly wins my nomination for the best Flash site I ever saw. If I could do anything half so fine, I'd quit my day job and do this for a living. You can find it at:

http://www.kodak.com/US/en/corp/features/endurance/home/index.shtml

Anne

Anne,

This is a very nice site. I can see why you chose it to be your ideal!

I love the cute scrolling pictures on the intro page, and the zoomable map! Most cool.

Matt



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Matt,
There's another one I tend to stare at a lot because I find some new, nifty thing every time I go there. It's called

http://www.private-art.com

You have to wait for a pop-up window to load, then there are wonderful little navigation elements at the bottom that load text into one frame and an image into another. I've downloaded your EX page kit to study, because I think it will show me how I could do this.

Anne