... but a rehash of the presentation of old ones!

I've been redoing my website for what seems like ages and I'm now in a position where I think I'm happy with it. I've added enough content for you to get the gist but I'm looking for some guinea pigs to have a poke around and let me have thoughts, not so much the content but the navigation, presentation and especially the functionality of PicLens which I've spent a bit of time integrating (if you haven't got it - get it!). If things are ok, I'll get the rest of the content up.

So... I'd be be grateful for anyone who's got a few mins to have a dig at it and if anything is broken or looks weird, let me know what's wrong and which OS/browser you're using.

(I'm aware the transparent header and footer images aren't supported in IE6 but am working on that.)

TVM

HankScorpio.net - Home (http://www.hankscorpio.net/)

Apart from the colour scheme... it looks ok from here using FF3 ;)

The piclens app is excellent btw!! Is there any gallery software out there that produces the require mRSS feeds as standard or have you cobbled that together yourself?

The only thing I would say.. and I dunno if it's meant to work like this or not...

If you go here for example...
HankScorpio.net - Goodwood Festival of Speed Photos (http://www.hankscorpio.net/index.php?page=festivalofspeed)

You get the top level of your FoS galleries... with a choice of 4 different galleries.

Now at this point the Piclens icon in the browser is indicating that a feed is available, if you click on it, it just presents the images in the last album of those 4 (with the VXR 220 in it) as opposed to all 4 albums or a choice between them...

If you go into each album individually they work as expected..

Thanks for that!
Well spotted, seems I need to integrate another couple of lines on the top level pages for pre/next feeds as it doesn't aggregate. I'm doing the feeds myself and it was quite a learning curve!

PicLens do have a publisher app you can download that generates it locally and then you upload but because I've got so many albums, I wanted it to be semi-dynamic so if anything changes, I don't have to fart about with feeds. With the category problem you've highlighted, I might have to make it dynamic or make a specific category feed.

As for the colour scheme - maybe taking inspiration from a bottle of Irn-Bru isn't everyone's cup of tea but it's staying!! (for now anway)

Thanks again for the feedback, I appreciate it :)

if you click on it, it just presents the images in the last album of those 4 (with the VXR 220 in it) as opposed to all 4 albums or a choice between them...

Now set to present all the pics in the category.
The trackday one is about a mile long!!

If you're in the "wall" view, use the mousewheel to zoom out and then whizz the wall along :D

If you're enjoying PicLens, give it a go on Google Image search or Flickr, certainly make sbrowsing flickr a better experience IMHO.
Try it with a flickr search like "hdr landscape", it just keeps feeding pics in.

Yeah I've tried it with google images and youtube... got a couple of other people at work using it... they were impressed by the 'wow...ohh look pretty..." effect :)

That piclens ap is fecking brilliant!
Love your photos as well Hank :thumb:
Is there a way of viewing images on your PC using that?

That piclens ap is fecking brilliant!

Yes it is, spread the word!

Love your photos as well Hank :thumb:

Thank you! Working on the site has sparked my interest again so once I get the rest up, maybe I'll get out for more.

Is there a way of viewing images on your PC using that?

The nice people at PicLens say:
Although this functionality is not yet officially supported, there is a little trick you can try if you are using our Firefox version. Select a folder containing your images and drag it on to your Firefox browser window. Then click the PicLens icon on your browser toobar. PicLens will display images in that folder, but not those in its subfolders. This functionality has not been optimized, so viewing desktop images will be much slower than viewing web images.

once I get the rest up

The rest of the car pics are up, had a trim down though and now there's only 4825 :freak3:

Any comments on performance welcomed.