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rekkid · #1 10-10-2005, 07:21 PM

I'm doing a little redesign/new template for my site, and I'm trying to decide if I want a thumbnail nav system or not.

Do you as photoblog owners perfer the thumbs?

and do you as photoblog viewers perfer the thumbs?

and if you want to take a peak at my site to see if thumbs fit in or not, here's the URL:

http://www.idontblameyou.com

Thanks

Allen

#2 10-10-2005, 07:27 PM

Allen,

when I think about my "viewing habitude" at photoblogs, I usually use the thumbnails and click on those which seem interesting to me, which attract my attention

I find them useful

**Joe[y]**+ · #3 10-10-2005, 07:35 PM

design wise they aren't the most pretty things if not used right.

but functionality-wise, as connie showed - they're brilliant for navigation.

its' win-win. or lose-lose - depending on what way you look at it!

**raminia**+ · #4 10-10-2005, 09:26 PM

I hate photoblogs without thumbs. What they thing? people are heavily interested in their site to visit it every day on everypost? ummm ... I have no time for visiting my favorate site regularly, even with feed reader.
I do use thumbs and I like archive pages with thumbs not date and name of photos.

**blinking8s**+ · #5 10-10-2005, 10:23 PM

ok, so ive been looking at my stats pretty heavy, users are much more likely to browse deeper into your blog the first time if you have thumbs

but design wise, im just not a fan of them, they greatly help usability though

Andrewmorrell · #6 10-28-2005, 08:09 PM

Hi all...

How do I get my template - sugar - to display thumbnails by default?

Thanks in advance.

Andrew Morrell

http://www.andrewmorrell.com

#7 10-28-2005, 08:56 PM

Andrew, your website loads very strange in Opera. only some parts of the image...

the HTML-validator brings 21 errors! Better clean your template before you add more code and maybe more errors!

follow the advice of http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=ht...ss=1&verbose=1 and you will get a clean code

after that you may enter <IMAGE_THUMBNAIL_ROW> for example...
read the tag-list, you find it in the doc-folder...

RTFM ;=)

dannisnokiller · #8 10-28-2005, 10:33 PM

i like thumbs.

a alot.

-danN

Andrewmorrell · #9 11-01-2005, 02:44 PM

Yeah I know - I'm a non-coder in a coder's world. Thanks for the tips and suggestions. I have cleaned up the code some (from 22 errors to 8), but am still bamboozled on how to get the thumbnail row to show up as the default formatting when a user goes to my image-template.

I have the image-thumbnail-row tag on my image-template page, but a user has to activate that on every page-view.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance!

#10 11-01-2005, 04:28 PM

1)
your thumbnails are in a id-selector which is not defined at all in your css

Code:

<div id="thumbs">

2)
for sure you must delete closing tags like </a> which have no opening tag
because otherwise all the rest of the markup is wrong and so it is absolutely possible that some elements are just not visible...

3)
for sure you must change

Code:

id="image"

to

Code:

class="image"

because you cannot use an id more than one time

4)
for sure you should not mix <center>-tags with centering css, <center> is deprecated...

unfortunately you must clean all errors before you can try to get the result which you want to acchieve

good luck!

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