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I am about to embark on a jquery journey I have not ever done. I will be developing a site that has one objective : to display over 300 uncategorized images (artwork). I'm just trying to think about the best way to go about displaying all these images in an easy to navigate, elegant way. I could use thumbnails and lightbox, but that's boring. I want to get inventive! Any cool ideas?
What's the objective of the people coming to view the images? Is it just browsing, or will they be looking for particular images? Are the images grouped into themes or artist or something? You have to build a navigation system that makes it easy for your users to achieve their goal!
Perhaps, if its more browsing some creative theme of images I wonder if you could come up with a scheme that lets users find their way between images naturally. Perhaps have several paths through the images, that when you view one you have a couple of options for where to 'go' next. Almost mimic the kind of browsing you might experience in an art gallery?
I wouldn't say that 300 images is a "ton" by any stretch.
Go visit photo sites like Flickr, SmugMug, and Picasa. Find the websites for wedding and journalist photographers. See what they're doing. If you can't figure out how to navigate their site in 10 seconds, stay away from similar site designs.
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Apple's page for iPhoneX is stunning, and I would like to know how to replicate some features on the site. See the link (https://www.apple.com/iphone-xr/)
I have very little knowledge about web development. I know html and css are the most common languages used for web development. Is this the same for the Apple website?
I am particularly interested in how to create animations while scrolling, a feature I see in many websites. As the user scrolls, new images and moving text are displayed on screen.
The link used in the question as well as other regional websites of Apple Inc. are based on a typical HTML-CSS platform(primarily).
Please note that the animations are based on js (also css).
The animations look really nice as they have divided the pages into dedicated DIVs and have used plenty of effects like onHover ,mouseUP, visibilityChange, scrolling-related stuff and what not.
You can use Ctrl+Shift+I to inspect the elements on ANY wesite for that matter, that will give you the idea of what the contents of a site really are.... !!
What 'Inspect element' looks like
This effect can be achieved in the following ways:
Sorted from the most difficult:
Code it yourself using vanilla Javascript(see: https://css-tricks.com/lets-make-one-of-those-fancy-scrolling-animations-used-on-apple-product-pages/)
Code it yourself using a Javascript libraries
GSAP (see: https://youtu.be/wLUJ9VNzZXo)
ScrollMagic (see: https://scrollmagic.io/examples/expert/image_sequence.html )
or without coding:
Scrollsequence WordPress Plugin
(see: https://wordpress.org/plugins/scrollsequence/)
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This question is more license related then technical, hope this is OK for you.
We have a website with fullscreen background images. Now we figured out that companies like istockphoto or shutterstock don't allow you to show images bigger than 1200x800 on websites.
Do you know:
- are there some companies who do have licenses for fullscreen website backgrounds?
- are there technical ways to circumvent copying of images and therefor licenses which allow the protected use of hires-images?
First of all, any image you'll display in an HTML based web-size can't be protected from being downloaded. There are ways to make that task more complex for novice users, such as adding it as a CSS background, forbidding the right-click, etc... but it won't resist more advanced users and firebug like tools.
Another possible solution is to add a copyright at the bottom of the picture and make it so it is not visible in the fullscreen mode via CSS (make the image larger than the screen), but it will be displayed once downloaded. A great example:
Look at the photo on this web-page: http://1x.com/photo/46293/all/latest-additions/childhood-beauty
Try to see the photo only now and see the copyright message at the bottom: http://imghost.1x.com/46293.jpg
Finally, regarding getting licecenses for fullscreen website backgrounds, you'd be better of either creating your own pictures if possible, or directly contact the author of the photos to ask if they accept it. Also various free stock exchange web-sites exists such as http://www.sxc.hu/ which might not provide the best quality but at least they will suit your conditions. Alternative web-sites with free or public-domain photos:
http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/
http://gimp-savvy.com/PHOTO-ARCHIVE/
Various public domain sources: http://www.publicdomainsherpa.com/public-domain-photographs.html
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The answers for the first question would be link to the web-site from crawling page(from the page search engine knows already). But, if you type very_long_name_without_any_sense_123kni.com, I guess it will find it anyway.
The second question is about folders.... If you have robots.txt in your root directory, then it's a bit clear. But, if you have no robots.txt on your web-site, how will search engine find all the folders that are allowed to be accessed?
If a search engine knows your web-site but your web-site has no robots.txt, how long will it take to appear at most popular search engine? In 10 minutes? 1 hour? 1 day? 1 week? never? How dangerous is it to leave pages (that should be protected) unprotected even for 1 minute, if your web-site is not crawled yed (because it's protected)?
P.S. These questions are not about steps how to make your web-site popular and to appear on the first pages among others... I'm just curious about principles how it works...
They can't, and don't.
that said, they can make some guesses based on knowing domain names (That information is accessible) and typical default website locations at those domain names.
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It seems that Indexhibit (www.indexhibit.org) is a sort of standard when it comes to building portfolio websites for artists. I just received a mail from an artist asking me whether I use Indexhibit. Beside the issues of the customer poking their nose into technical stuff, I need to know what's so special about Indexhibit?
I took a look at it and saw nothing more then a somewhat original CMS. I have my own system/libraries that I use to build simple websites and prefer sticking to these, but would like to know first... why does Indexhibit have this place among artists... and why do they say "an Indexhibit site" and not "a website built on Indexhibit"... what's the difference between an Indexhibit website and a plain website? Is there any advantage when using Indexhibit?
That's it, you got it, it's just a blank slate that makes it easy to pump out a small portfolio in a short amount of time. It's the helvetica of portfolio web design. Nothing fancy, but it's classic, the art can breath.
I come from a ASP.NET MVC and Django Background, and I've actually been having a bit of fun about working with Indexhibit. I got over my fear of PHP and there is some thing refreshing about just firing a query off, and building html straight out of it. Would never use it for a really custom job, but for things that fit the model, it gets quite out of your way for getting things done.
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I have never made a blog before. I am proficient with html and css. I know there are many blog services like "blogger" and "word press" etc where you can make a blog and even pick from skins.
Can anyone suggestions on where I can find information for a total beginner on how to use one of these services as the back end for updating my blog and have the posts show up in my own website at my own website domain? ie have the url be www.mywebsite.com/blog as part of my website?
I really have no clue where to start. To sum it up i need to learn how to do 2 things:
1) Skin my own blog using my knowledge of css and html and design skills - and know what service is best and why
2) How can i make this blog part of my website domain like the example url above. Also what is this even called? I'm not sure what the term would be to even search for it on my own.
Finally: If anyone has any links to refer me to as a "how to guide" that will answer these specifically.. that would be great too.
thanks!
My advice, since you know html and css is to use silverstripe as your CMS. With Silverstripe you have command over all of the html and css, rather than trying to learn the structure of someone else's markup (which is usually obscurely named).
They have a really excellent set of tutorials there are only six, and once followed you will be completely proficient. They also have modules, and a blog module is one.
Follow the directions described at the link below. It covers most of the basics of getting WordPress up and running. From there you should be able to do whatever you want.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress