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J. Daniel Clements Photography - Chromataphore
« on: November 15, 2008, 09:52:09 AM »

www.jdanielclements.com

Additional Extensions: nothing that shows in the front end.

Custom Development: none

Other Features: Using Slideshow Pro for Lightroom (to create two flash slideshows), and Slideshow Pro Director to manage gallery.

Comments: It is pretty basic. I may even strip out some of the template shadow effects to reduce the http requests. The front page has a large flash show on it, so when loading viewers may have a few seconds seeing a large blank space, but the left hand "welcome" module should load first so people can start to read that while waiting.
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« Reply #1 on: November 15, 2008, 10:12:11 AM »

I love pages where I don't have to scroll now, so can truly appreciate the cleanliness on the home page (or 'front' as you call it?) Wink In fact, were you to remove a line or two on both your 'about us' and 'contact' pages, one wouldn't have to scroll on those pages, either. Wink 

I do like the clean look, sir.  Well done.

Is the photo on the front supposed to rotate while you are on there?  In seems to change when I go page to page and return, but doesn't change when I land on the site and wait...just wondering if this is by design.
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« Reply #2 on: November 15, 2008, 10:21:11 AM »

I like both: Design and Photos.
Pretty long loading time of the flash-content on my side here – but its worth :-)

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« Reply #3 on: November 16, 2008, 03:58:00 PM »

Is the photo on the front supposed to rotate while you are on there?  In seems to change when I go page to page and return, but doesn't change when I land on the site and wait...just wondering if this is by design.

Yes, that is by design. I thought about putting a single image there, and changing it from time to time, but I went with a flash slideshow with no controls that loads a picture randomly. I may change it, though, to get a faster load on the "front" page. (Yeah, kind of quirky, I know.) The images that appear on the front page vary from 65k to 265k, but the flash show (actually two flash files and two support files) measures 86k.

Thanks for the idea on the other two pages. I may try to shorten those down.
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« Reply #4 on: November 16, 2008, 04:05:17 PM »

I like both: Design and Photos.
Pretty long loading time of the flash-content on my side here – but its worth :-)

Thanks. I don't think there is much I can do about the gallery page. It's initial load is 184k according to YSlow. I guess once the initial flash is loaded, it is speedier.

Thanks for the feedback.
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