Photo Viewer - for those sore eyes!
Alright guys! Here is a first enhancement to our site. I have included a photo viewer on the right panel. This is a cool tool called PhotoBlox from a company called Laszlo and freely available. They have quite a few products that we can use but I thought this was the best - for now.
By default it points to their galleries that has quite a few impressive pictures. But they do allow us to point to our own galleries as well, but that may have to wait till we have our own server. In the short term am investigating to see if we can point it to a "cooler" gallery like maybe Cindy's! ;)
posted by Balakumar @ 12/06/2004 03:14:00 pm
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5 Comments:
Cool Bala! Nice enhancement.
Looks like you've got a lot of free time today!!! :)
I have been planning on including photoBlox to my blog for a while but never had the time to clean up the existing format I have going there: http://balak.blogspot.com. So decided to add it here since this uses a more recent template. That also explains why I am still awake - getting some work done! :)
Bala,
I think we have to take that PhotoBlox off the page dude. It takes a lot of time to refresh everytime the page is posted. Sometimes, its really irritating. And for people who browse from "internet cafes" in India, it could be worse. The speed there will not be like here and it might take minutes before the page completely appears.
What do you think?
hmmm... Does the whole page not refresh or does only the photoBlox not refresh? If its only the photoBlox I guess its ok cause the rest of the page will be available. But if the whole page is not showing up, then it has to definitely go. If you think it should go in any case, thats fine too. Let me know and I can fix it. Its a simple 2 minute job. Moreover without any of our pictures it gets boring after a while! :)
Guys, on Arun's request, I have removed the photoBlox script from the blog. Arun had a good point on how it would slow down folks coming in on a slow connection. When we have our own site, we can try and optimize it; but for now, its gone...
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