Portfolio - Scroll or Click?
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- gingerbreadlady
What style of navigation do you think is best for client projects on my website?
- rson0
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- peterorpete0
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- six0
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- inteliboy0
1 - but with no page reload would be nice.
- d_rek0
1 - Agree with inteliboy, some dynamic content loading would be a nice little touch but is not absolutely necessary. Very nice work too!
- stewart0
2 - better & quicker overview of the whole project.
- gingerbreadlady0
Sorry people.... does "1" mean the first link or all content on ONE page?
I would LOVE to put dynamic content on there...but wouldn't know where to start...I use dinosaur coding in Dreamweaver.
How do I avoid page re-load?
- detritus0
Given that I'm older, smarter and more talented than most QBNers, you should weigh my opinion higher than previous submissions in this thread.
I think ... nay, I insist, you put all your work on one scrollable page.
- +1Masterramos
- <<discoduro
- what a load of fucking truthPonyBoy
- itstimefortea0
scrolling is better i think. as mentioned above, you get better overview, quicker.
- Leigh0
scroll.
- harmsie0
You use some nice javascript image slider (there are some nice Jquery ones) you can have the click through options based on and unordered list <ul></ul>, then you could have the option to turn off the click through navigation and have a scrolling page depending on the users preference.
- ooohh... that sounds complicated...I have never touched jQuery. Yikesgingerbreadlady
- have a look at http://www.reindel.c…harmsie
- You can strip down the css, add yours and bobs your uncleharmsie
- kalkal0
I'd say go with slideshows if you could impliment a nice jquery gallery. As you don't have experience with this (or if you don't want to put the time in to find out how) stick with what you know and just use the standard scrolling.
- bulletfactory0
I think both can work, but depend on your purpose and style.
Option 1 allows you to design the page more like a printed publication. You can have fixed dimensions which will allow you to follow a more rigid grid system. Also, the JQuery slider will a a cool bit of interaction which will help the overall user experience.
Having the images all in one stack can be effective for casual browsing, but project's impact may be diminished as you can't control the focus of the user's attention; they'll see all images at once.
- new_cpmwww0
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- springbok0
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- utopian0
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- kalkal0
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- dyspl0
"they see my scrolling they hating"
- fuu..
my=medyspl - now I am singing that
song in my head....utopian - http://popup.lala.co…scarabin
- fuu..
- duckseason0
I gotta agree with bulletfactory on this one.
There are pros and cons for each and there are many sites out there that execute each very well. I feel a lot of it can do with how the rest of your site is structured.As it stands, it seems like most of your content is focused towards the top of the page with the header, nav and project descriptions all residing right around that first image. That being saif, I feel a click through nav might be better suited in this particular instance.
At the end of the day, you're not going to please everyone. You just gotta buckle down and make a decision. If after a bit you still aren't really feeling it, or through page tracking, you notice that not all of your images are getting licked through, you can always switch it.
- *saidduckseason
- *clicked, though I almost prefer licked...duckseason
- gingerbreadlady0
Maybe I just have the scrolling page on the CLIENT part of the site so that you see the project in it's entirety and then if you browse by discipline...eg IDENTITY you get the click throughs so that you are focussing on one thing at a time. I have noticed on Google Analytics that not everybody clicks through...As you say, you can't please everyone! ;)