During the past week, I’ve been busy revamping our photo gallery that’s contained on the Photo Albums link above. For the other nerds interested in web technologies out there, I’ve made the following changes:
- Moved away from the terrible table-based design that the gallery has used since 2004. I’m now using a 2-column CSS template that works well in Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Internet Explorer 8 (no CSS3 rounded corners on IE 8). The sidebar on this 2 column design will contain tips for viewing images, as well as links to a view of our Picasa Web Albums.
- Converted older galleries to use the Lightbox2 photo viewer. This is an awesome free javascript app that provides an overlay for viewing images. Simply click a thumbnail on an album to see it in action.
- The albums are now separated by year, instead of being lumped into one giant list. The years that have been converted to the new format are:
- Converted older portrait images to a viewable height. You will no longer have to scroll to see an entire photo in portrait orientation. (Yeah, the old photos were huge if they had a portrait orientation.)
If you have any suggestions or thoughts on the new format, please leave a comment below.
