Flash gallery.

[Ivan1]

Hello.
I'm creating a Flash website for a group of photographers, and all of them want their work on the website. I'm looking for the most efficient way to lay out galleries for several photographers. Any suggestions are much appreciated. My main concern with this project is file sizes for .swfs that contain numerous .jpegs
Regards,
Ivan

http://www.foundation-one.net

 

[javierdl]

It seems to me that this project you have is more suitable for a regular HTML site than a Flash one. Simply because of the numerous amount of raster based images (JPGs) you will be using. If the size of every page it's a concern then I would say just do it with HTML. If the size won't be an issue whatsoever, then get fancy with Flash.
Good luck.

 

[funkymonk]

One way would be to use the loadMovieNum Action.

This way each photograhper can have his/her own galleries dedicated to them. You could even split these down into more movies:

Artist 1 - gallery one; birds, gallery two; whales etc.
Artist 2 - gallery one; alien mugshots, gallery two etc.

This way you only have to load the main movie initialy which, if you are creating this section in flash aloan, should be quite small.

Visitors then only need to load the galleries they want to see, these may still be quite large but at least the visitors know it's a photo gallery so won't mind. (hopefully).

Hope this helps.....

If you need help getting started with the loadMovieNum Action then just ask.

rod@sameplanet.co.uk
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[oldnewbie]

I second that! And I'll even add that now with MX, you can load .jpgs at runtime, so you can eventually update the pictures without touching the .swfs themselves. Regards,