Holy new WDWMagic Home Page!

Slowjack

Slowjack

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Steve, I appreciate the hard work on the new site and everything you do to make this the best place on the web for WDW fans.

I am wondering, though, if I'm the only one with a concern about how photo galleries work now. Before, you could click on the first photo and get the full-size, then click from full-size to full-size from there. Now you have to click on thumbnails to bring up a medium size, then click on each medium size to bring up a full. Also each click of a thumbnail does a page refresh which puts you back at the top of the page, so to work through a gallery requires scrolling down for each picture. I'm using Firefox, not sure if it's different on other browsers.
 
devoy1701

devoy1701

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Slowjack said:
Steve, I appreciate the hard work on the new site and everything you do to make this the best place on the web for WDW fans.

I am wondering, though, if I'm the only one with a concern about how photo galleries work now. Before, you could click on the first photo and get the full-size, then click from full-size to full-size from there. Now you have to click on thumbnails to bring up a medium size, then click on each medium size to bring up a full. Also each click of a thumbnail does a page refresh which puts you back at the top of the page, so to work through a gallery requires scrolling down for each picture. I'm using Firefox, not sure if it's different on other browsers.
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I concur using IE9. When you click on the "next" picture button, it reloads the entire page sending you to the top instead of just the next image.
 
wdwmagic

wdwmagic

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Slowjack said:
Steve, I appreciate the hard work on the new site and everything you do to make this the best place on the web for WDW fans.

I am wondering, though, if I'm the only one with a concern about how photo galleries work now. Before, you could click on the first photo and get the full-size, then click from full-size to full-size from there. Now you have to click on thumbnails to bring up a medium size, then click on each medium size to bring up a full. Also each click of a thumbnail does a page refresh which puts you back at the top of the page, so to work through a gallery requires scrolling down for each picture. I'm using Firefox, not sure if it's different on other browsers.
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The difference now is that each large image has its only dedicated page and URL, which has the huge advantage that it is now possible to directly link to a specific image.
Eg http://www.wdwmagic.com/attractions...g2012-fantasyland-construction-site/16146.htm

In the past, you could only link to the entire gallery, not an individual image.
 
wannab@dis

wannab@dis

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For the forum header issue, I noticed it also. Looks like a broken image here - http://2012test.wdwmagic.com/images/header/header_background.png (giving 403 access denied error)

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The updates look great! I have to share the only small UI issue that I've noticed is also the galleries. I miss the lightbox style large images that you can rotate through with the arrow keyboard interface. But, I do get the perm link / SEO help.
 
wannab@dis

wannab@dis

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I was looking at the gallery again and I think a small change could help the UI / flow of the page. Could you add an inline link (#thumbs) to the thumbnails that would scroll the page to the top of the thumbnails when the next one is clicked? That would keep everyone from having to (potentially) scrolling down to see the larger image each page load. Just a suggestion. Overall, the upgrade does look great!
 
spectromagic04

spectromagic04

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BalooChicago

BalooChicago

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wannab@dis said:
I was looking at the gallery again and I think a small change could help the UI / flow of the page. Could you add an inline link (#thumbs) to the thumbnails that would scroll the page to the top of the thumbnails when the next one is clicked? That would keep everyone from having to (potentially) scrolling down to see the larger image each page load. Just a suggestion. Overall, the upgrade does look great!
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Yeah, this is one thing I noticed, my other suggestion was going to be to put the thumbnails below the enlarged image if possible. Otherwise it's a lot of scrolling.
 
wdwmagic

wdwmagic

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wannab@dis said:
For the forum header issue, I noticed it also. Looks like a broken image here - http://2012test.wdwmagic.com/images/header/header_background.png (giving 403 access denied error)

19ro5u.png


The updates look great! I have to share the only small UI issue that I've noticed is also the galleries. I miss the lightbox style large images that you can rotate through with the arrow keyboard interface. But, I do get the perm link / SEO help.
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Thanks for the screen shot, now fixed.
 

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