Cabel’s Amazing FancyZoom 1.1
I remember years ago, Cabel S. writing about the nice little Javascript and graphics snip called FancyZoom that allows you to easily put thumbnail images on your web site, and then with a click, the full-size image is displayed. It's really pretty amazing. I downloaded it, and started messing with it a bit. I can understand the directory structure he chose - it's common for him, but for me, it was a little different, and that's OK fine with me. I was able to easily move things around a bit, get the links right, and it fit right into Liza's home page.
I remember it being a lot smoother back when it first came out, but now that machines and browsers are so much faster, it almost flashes up. Pretty neat, in my book. So I need to run it past Liza and see what she thinks, but I'm pretty pleased with it. What I need now is a lot of Liza's artwork and then we can get to organizing it in folders, etc. and then making thumbnails of the images, and we'll be ready to go.
I'm not sure if we'll end up needing to back-end this with a real service, but if we do, there's more than enough capability in PHP, should we need it, and I can even put up a little database to hold the information for the pages.
Pretty sweet.