New Design - Possible Template

[shutterhead]

if there is enough interest, I'll clean this up and make it available to the general public... it's finished basically... except for styling the pop-up commenting which will be available from the info slide-out.

The key to the design is (as usual) keeping it simple.

Let me know what you think.

http://www.sotolicious.com

[shutterhead]

and by the way, it'll be called MUTT, since it's really a collection of different ideas from some of my favorite designs.... pixelpost or not.

[dakwegmo+]

Very nice work. I think the community would definitely be interested in your MUTT. I am.

My only suggestions for improvement, the javascript slide in for the information is a little slow and jumps. Fix that and make sure the dark theme applies to sub pages as well, and I think you've got a winner.

[jaywilliams+]

I like the design a lot, very clean.

There are a couple of things that I would change, but that's just my opinion, so take it for what it's worth.

* I would have the same (or very similar) navigation on each page.
The home page is good, but on the browse & about pages it disappears.

* I would tweak the info expand animation a bit, as it expands width wise and makes the page looks really weird. (Why not just make it expand hight-wise, not width wise)

* And lastly, I would make the overlay arrows less obvious, right now they are pretty "in your face" and distract a lot from the photos.

Well, those are my thoughts. Hopefully you find them helpful.

Great job!

[shutterhead]

thanks for the input!

Yeah, I'm very aware of the choppy animation, which started when I put the thumbs next to the image instead of below it. Even if I make the thumbs static, it's still choppy.

I'm not aware of any horizontal expansion. On Safari and IE7 it expands only vertical. A screenshot would be helpful if you don't mind.

I agree... nav should be consistent across all pages. Good point.

As far as the overlays go, almost everyone I've asked that isn't a photoblog user / viewer, doesn't realize they can over over the image and navigate believe it or not. I kinda like them in your face when you want them to be.

[jaywilliams+]

Hum, I can't seem to recreate the horizontal bug I saw in Firefox. Maybe it was just some strange fluke?

[shawnkristofer]

that is a great template - i really like how you have the thumbs on the side that go from shaded to bright on a rollover. and that photo titled 'Looking' is a fantastic shot.

[fureddo]

This template is beautiful. I would definitely use this were it available. Great work.

[jeanlaurent]

Very very nice, how can post a comment on it ?
Thx

[JETC]

The arrows remind me a lot of

http://taufiqshariff.com photoblog ._.

Nice clean simple template but yeah..the comment is gone.