hello experts
I am building a website and need the following functionality
1. click a category and a picture gallery appears - thumbnail and large image. this bit i have pretty much done at www.alexwhyatt.com\shootre
2. if you wanted the picture of the giraffe that features on the gallery (they are test pics as place holders) - then i need some kind of facility to tick it or select it so that the image file will appear in a shopping card
3. when you get to the shopping cart, you can review the thumbnails you have selected (discard if needed) and then enter your email address and have them appear in your inbox.
the question(s) i have for the experts is this - is a flash type gallery going to work for me? should i be going back to tables (with which i am more familiar)?
might this work better as a shopping cart development in the first place? imagine the pics i want to display are the front covers of books?
any comments / discussion welcomed!
thanks
al
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This will put 4 columns of thumbnails 100px wide, and will just keep adding rows as necessary. CSS is very good with this type of effect, the only problem is cross-browser issues. If you give a 10px margin as i did here, you shouldn't run in to any issues. If your webpage is designed to the pixel, you will likely need browser hacks, as you would with any webpage.
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by: themrrobertPosted on 2009-10-26 at 14:48:35ID: 25667286
I do not think you want to go with flash.
Set up a nice page with CSS. Have a <div> for the header, navigation, and content. If you need tables to set up your gallery, so be it, but you can also do this:
style.css:
#content {width: 410px; }
.item {float: left; width: 100px; }
Assuming you have an array like this:
$gallery = array('1001' => "pic_1001.jpg",'1002' => "pic_1002.jpg")
gallery.php
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