Photoshop on a web page

Pretty cool. I especially liked the DHTML slide bars.

Takes awhile to load, but not too long. I think people will like it.

Peter

That's really neat.

The only room for improvement I see is maybe center it vertically and horizontally on the screen for 1024x728 users, and that's a super minor thing.

The site is a well put together package. I enjoy the look of the banner, very scenic and fitting for the site. My suggestion for the DHTML slide bars is to put spaces after commas as everything looks bunched up. Well done indeed, very little room for improvement.

Really good, mate.
You advertise tourism etc. but there's no map or anything on how to get or where on earth the flipping thing is!
(But there are maps on a link you give: tourismvancouver.com)

I too really like this site. The blue in the banner goes well with the green of the navbar. You still have a distinctive black text on white background for the textual content which makes for effortless, easy on the eye reading. The only minor criticism I have is the vancouver.com text which is superimposed on the "your". I feel it slightly lets the banner down by being a not as instantly clear to look at. I think it is not quite bold enough, maybe darken the "vancouver.com" bit.

But all in all, a great site.

Joe

Yeah, excellent. Loading time is in my opinion too long but it's a great layout & excellent use of DHTML. Spot On

Interesting concept. Looks good.

Thanks guys!

abudabit: Absolute positioning is used in the code to place DHTML elements, so unfortunately centering is out.

The site has been moved to a much faster server. Now you can include your own text title - naturally with a custom, cool DHTML color-picker. The color-picker isn't fully debugged yet, works on Explorer though.

Keep the suggestions coming!

Peter

Don't have any suggestions, aside from the ones already given.

I'm always impressed by sites with a lot of photos that still load quickly.

It works wonderfully in Safari!
I haven't seen this done before (at least not to this extent).

Are you going through the GD Library? ...or maybe that's a secret...

Great job on the scripting! I'm looking forward to seeing how you incorporate it into the site.
Have fun with it!

Call be stupid, call me dumb, say i have a big bum, but what's GD library (soz - I need to learn somehow!)

Nah... you're not stupid or dumb.. although I have no idea about you're bum...

The GD Library is something used to create images on the fly. There are other ways to dynamically create images, but this one is pretty widly supported. There's a quick tutorial on it at http://www.phpfreaks.com/tutorials/105/0.php.

Thanks.

"...or maybe that's a secret... "

Ok, the latest changes are...
- Fonts have been changed to improve readability
- black border around images ot make it look better
- "T" or title color button changed to look more like a button and to give better feedback.
- EXIF data is parsed better, eg: "Canon PowerShot S50. 600x450, 1/1000sec @ F4, 2004:05:09 15:40:41"
- New EXIF button displaying complete details has been added.
- User Titles on the image are now halo'd in black
- JPEG Quality now goes from 50 to 100, instead of 0 to 100
- Sizing/auto-cropping (eg: make a 400x300 image a 5x7" print) now works

Peter

Well everything seems to be looking and functioning great here.
I'm sorry I couldn't help you with your span question, but in my browser there's certainly no problems.

The only suggestion I might make is if you are going to have the url on the top of the fixed picture, you might want to rethink letting the picture title go at the top. Things get a bit messy that way.

I can't wait to see how you integrate this into the rest of the site!
Have fun with it!