Is this a viable way of presenting aircraft pictures?

David,

Many thanks. It took some 20 secs to load, with a blank screen and ‘untitled Document’. The thumbnails move quickly (too quickly) when one is in the middle, but get very (very) slow at both ends. Believe the Heron/Canberra pic is the first, and 748 open cowling the last.

Could almost feel the sweltery heat!

Thanks again
Alan

Came through almost instantly for me. Absolutely first class photos by the way. Technically really well executed, and compositionally as well. Thanks so much for sharing them. I had no idea the IAF ever used C-119’s either.

Cheers,
Richard

With broadband only a matter of seconds, I started to count but only got to about 5 seconds and it was loaded.
great pics i’m great Boxcar fan.

David, please don’t take my time as a benchmark. As I mentioned, my internet connection was very slow yesterday. Did anyone else note how long the download took?

Excellent pics David and really well presented, no problems at my end!
You must have a good scanner, what do you use?
PS, looking forward to the Gannets section!

Ouch- 25 mins for Lauriebe to download! I can only think the site went ‘offline’ fo awhile.
The Flash file that’s being loaded is reported as 4567708Kb.
I make that just under 4.4Meg which I thought would load on most machines fairly fast. Speed of your connection will be relevant of course and I imagine also speed of your PC.
The server (DreamHost) is in the US but the jpeg pics that I’ve been showing here on this forum are all on that as well.
There was one other occasion when my pics were reported as ‘inaccessible’ and that would be when the server was down for maintenance I believe. That typically seems to happen in UK time in the evening of course!

My son tells me to use a site like ‘Flikr’ to post my library of pics, but I’m not very impressed with that type of presentation. I like the idea of receiving constructive comments and further information about pictures so need to find away to allow that.

I haven’t managed to produce a suitable ‘hour glass’ as the Flash loads but I’m sure I can when I start up a proper web page.

I do want users to be able to ‘zone in’ on specific interests and therefore was going to present the pictures in folders, such as ‘Britannia’s/Comets/V-Bombers/RAAF Canberras’ that sort of thing.
The folders are also necessary to keep each file to reasonable size to load.
DT

Success! It took something like 25 minutes for the full download but it was certainly worth the wait. Thanks David. Excellent photos.

It works in FF3 and IE 8RC 1 but takes a while to load, no holding screen, just blank until it loads.

Nice pics 🙂

Thanks, Chris. Will try again. My net connection is very, very, slow today as well. That’s not helping matters either.

Splendid pictures David.

Loaded very quickly and super quality too.

Is there more to come I wonder?

Thanks for posting.

Brian.

Unfortunately, I don’t seem to be able to access the link to David’s site at all. I’m wondering if it is my browser settings that are blocking it. I use Firefox 3. Checking that at the moment.

The second link works fine.

David – seems a very viable way of presenting. Didn’t take long to load and the high res was appreciated when the pics were selected and shown ‘large’.

A bit of explanatory text would be useful – but be a shame to reduce the pic size. What about additional boxes in the thumbnails that text can be put in???

Roger Smith.

Thanks Albert.
Pleased to find out that they didn’t take too long to load. Hard to judge that since my own computer already has the site ‘cached’.
I think I need to reduce the picture size a bit, so that text can be incorporated in a separate box. I’ve got a resonable amount of info on the aircraft pictured now and the knowledgeable members of this forum have contributed quite a lot more recently.

I will go ahead I think and start a new site that gives viewers the ability to browse seperate subject folders. The PC’s mouse seems to ‘dance’ over the thumbnails in a slightly strange way which I don’t seem to be able to improve and I hope it’s not too off putting.

Alas no colour pics as all the ones I wish to include were taken between 1961 and 1964 when I was only shooting in b and w.

DT

Superb David! Thoroughly enjoyed viewing these and very good quality. Didn’t take long to load. Did you take anything in colour?
Thanks for sharing.