Some Nifty Tips on Using this Site

Viewing Images

Gallery Option

In the Gallery, you have the option of either viewing all black and white images (the default) or all colour images. In either situation, the images have been assigned to various Categories such as Beach, Plants, Flowers, Winter. These main Categories also appear in a dropdown menu located at the bottom of each Gallery page. Once a category is chosen, a variety of more specific SubCategories appear. Entering one of these SubCategories will then reveal the range of images available. Each image can be selected for later viewing (see below) or clicked on to reveal a larger image. If this image was taken on my recently acquired Phase One digital camera system, then there frequently is both a colour and black and white version. A link to the alternate version is given both below the thumbnail and when you observe the larger size of the image.

The Search option available at the top and bottom of each Gallery page utilizes the image name, keywords, catalogue number, and description fields in finding images. All the images in a SubGroup can be viewed as larger images in a slide show by clicking on the "Slide Show" link at the bottom of the page and choosing the 'Large Image' option.

New Images Option

This area shows the most recent 85 images that have been uploaded.

Selecting Images

Images can be selected for later viewing by clicking with the mouse pointer on the little checkbox beneath each image. Once all the images of interest have been selected throughout the Gallery, then click on the "View" link (located beneath each image) on the last image chosen. This action will enable you to view all the images that you have previously selected in the Viewing Room. These choices can then be emailed directly to a colleague, a client or myself. The selected images can also be viewed as a slide show. The Viewing Room will remember your image choices as long as you do not clean out the memory cache of your web browser. Thus you can return at any time in the future (using the same computer) and click on the active Viewing Room link located at the top left in the Gallery section. Note this link is not active when there are no images in the Viewing Room.

At the bottom of this page are a variety of functions that allow you to manipulate the number of images per line (1 to 4), background colour, the font colour, a border (one of which simulates a matted image as framed) and the position of the images. The font can be made to disappear by closely matching the font colour with the background colour. The background colour can be chosen to reasonably match the wall colour where the images will be displayed. These functions may help you visualize how the images would look on your wall and the sorting function can enable you to see how various groupings of images can best be configured for presentation.

Programing of this Site

This is a data-base enabled site that is programmed in Cold Fusion, Java Script and HTML. The challenging bits (data-base system, cold fusion and java script) were programmed by Greg Dixon of Shared Visions Unlimited.