Are there any new designs that make landscape shots fill the screen?

Lorne

I'm still using my legacy site as I haven't found a new design I'm fussed about

http://www.lornethomson.com

Are there any designs that would display landscape shots almost filling the screen and possibly portraits two or three together?

Wouldn't mind updating but I've not been impressed with what I've seen so far.

The Mechanic

Hi Lorne,

I was able to take a look at your current site. You can set a full screen background image in the New SmugMug either for all pages or even just your homepage. This is done by editing the theme and selecting a background image of your own.

Lorne

Thanks for the reply.
I didn't mean in the background, I wanted the main images filling the screen.

richpepp

Do you mean you want the picture to be able to fill the screen width wise but still have some sort of navigation bar on top or do you want the navigation sitting over the top of the photo and blanking it out slightly? The first can be achieved by switching off your side bars if you have any and then adding a menu to the top of your page to allow navigation. I'm not sure that the second is possible although it may be possible to cheat by putting a menu bar at the top, making it slightly transparent and then 'pinning' it so that the photos can scroll up underneath. Can you describe in a bit more detail what you are trying to do?

Lorne

I'm not too technical so can't really describe what I want except just more like the slideshow intro to my site, which you see when you first click on my link. I appreciate they are all landscape shots and I have a lot of portrait pics too, so possibly two or three portrait shots together.

I know the type of site I mean but I've got no examples to hand.

richpepp

I think I've got you. When you first get to your site you have the slide show with the menu sitting on top of the pictures so you lose a little of the top. Is that what you are wanting when you go to a gallery but with all of the photos underneath at full width?

Lorne

Yes something of that nature though I'm not sure where the other pics in each gallery would appear. I've seen ones where previews vanish when you click on the main shot.

richpepp

Lorne wrote: »

Yes something of that nature though I'm not sure where the other pics in each gallery would appear. I've seen ones where previews vanish when you click on the main shot.

I can't quite picture that I'm afraid, sorry, as it sounds as though you have several photos up at one time (you said 'previews'). If you come across an example of the site like this then post up a link as it would be interesting to see - tx.

Oja

It sounds like you want to go straight into the lightbox view (example: http://lagemaatphoto.smugmug.com/Landscapes/National-Parks/Rocky-Mountain-National-Park/Winter-in-RMNP/i-GB3c4sc/A ) but still want a navigation bar on top. That would be nice as a gallery style. You get something like this when you set the gallery style to "slideshow" but this needs flash and uses very slow transitions so is a little annoying. I have seen the sort of site you talk about BTW. Usually these are a large horizontal slider of images that slides right every click showing one (if horizontal) or more (generally when they are vertical) pictures at a time next to each other. You see them a lot on photographer's portfolio sites.

Lorne

Yes Oja, that's what I'm talking about.
Just something that fills the screen really.

denisegoldberg

Oja wrote: »

...when you set the gallery style to "slideshow" but this needs flash and uses very slow transitions so is a little annoying.

I believe the new smug no longer uses flash for slideshows.

--- Denise

Oja

denisegoldberg wrote: »

I believe the new smug no longer uses flash for slideshows.

--- Denise

It still uses flashs for slideshows unfortunately which is why so many people complaqin about jittery and flickery homepage slideshows for example in the new smugmug. It will however fall back on HTML5 for mobile devices. Why they don't just make it HTML5 everywhere is a mystery as the HTML5 for mobile devices works perfectly.

WinsomeWorks

Oja wrote: »

It still uses flashs for slideshows unfortunately which is why so many people complaqin about jittery and flickery homepage slideshows for example in the new smugmug. It will however fall back on HTML5 for mobile devices. Why they don't just make it HTML5 everywhere is a mystery as the HTML5 for mobile devices works perfectly.

Truly is a mystery.

thenickdude

Oja wrote: »

It still uses flashs for slideshows unfortunately which is why so many people complaqin about jittery and flickery homepage slideshows for example in the new smugmug. It will however fall back on HTML5 for mobile devices. Why they don't just make it HTML5 everywhere is a mystery as the HTML5 for mobile devices works perfectly.

This might happen in your web browser if it's ancient, but it doesn't happen on Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari or Internet Explorer 10 (I just tested them), it always uses HTML5 slideshows there, not a trace of Flash to be seen.

Oja

Lamah wrote: »

This might happen in your web browser if it's ancient, but it doesn't happen on Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari or Internet Explorer 10 (I just tested them), it always uses HTML5 slideshows there, not a trace of Flash to be seen.

You are right. I just retested and they are HTML5 on Safari, Chrome and Firefox. That's great.