Hey Guys, I have been developing various auto-generated displays for viewing coin images. The carousel struggles a little with a large amount. What do you think? I am curious how quickly these load for you and if you like the displays. Any feedback is appreciated. Some of my toned U.S. Nickels: Wall of nickels: http://beta.thecoinnection.com/Public/albumdisplay/album/272/bcolor/0/type/2 Mobile slider: http://beta.thecoinnection.com/Public/albumdisplay/album/272/bcolor/0/type/1 Carousel: http://beta.thecoinnection.com/Public/albumdisplay/album/273/bcolor/0/type/3 Some of my toned U.S. Dimes: Wall of dimes: http://beta.thecoinnection.com/Public/albumdisplay/album/260/bcolor/0/type/2 Wall of Dimes (old images, black background) : http://beta.thecoinnection.com/Public/albumdisplay/album/267/bcolor/1/type/2 mobile slider: http://beta.thecoinnection.com/Public/albumdisplay/album/260/bcolor/0/type/1
They loaded fine for me, and are definately a neat archival tool. Even the carosel worked. Definately a cool concept.
Thanks for looking and reporting, bhaugh. I think the next step is to add zooming features. Im on it!
Worked for me too. I like the first two styles, but not the carousel. I do LOVE your coins, especially the dimes!
Everything loads immediately for me - no wait at all. And the sliders & carousels worked fine. I'm impressed - nice job!
Thank you guys! I am hoping some folks from other countries give it a try. I am using a CDN (content delivery network), and hopefully it will be equally as fast for others across the pond.
Everything worked for me as well. The carousel works, but the image format is hurting you. Try using transparent .png files so that you don't have the white borders. That should help make the coins "float" and resolve the overlapping issue. You could also throw in some java so that the images slowly rotate on their own, then stop and zoom with mouse over. Just some friendly suggestions. All in all, everything looks nice, good job! I will say that at the moment, I prefer the "wall" style just for simplicity and ease of use.
Good suggestions rlspears10, although I am dumping the carousel, because really, most albums will have quite a bit of coins in it, so the carousel doesn't lend itself to large amounts. Also, like you said, the backgrounds on the images tend to interfere with the concept. I agree transparent png's would be nice...I cannot use them though, simply for bandwidth issues. There are 10's of thousands of images, with more everyday, and due to the file size difference between the jpg and the transparent png, it would kill me in bandwidth costs. Not to mention, most users wouldn't even be creating transparent pngs to begin with. The web-friendly,various size jpgs are created on image upload, and the galleries are generated dynamically. In fact, I need to really only transfer the images that can be seen on a users screen and use a paging system. -greg
Good to know! The slider is touch enabled and should run quite nice on most mobile phones. Thank you for trying it out.
Ahh, I did not realize that. I thought you were simply making a display for YOUR coins. I can only imagine the bandwidth that would be eaten by users uploading all of their coins as well.
Yeah, I failed to mention that. If it was just a personal thing, then you are absolutely correct and I would do the transparent, etc.. Instead, I have to try and accommodate the various scenarios because they are dynamic.
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I am making the same suggestion, make these transparent so you don't see the white background. I'm against the Java idea though, perhaps javascript but Java would only slow it down and or not be compatible to people who don't have it loaded for their browsers or disable it.
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