New Photo Section
For those of you that didn’t know, I’ve recently launched a new photo section here on ahills.com. I was shooting for something minimal and supportive to the the medium. That’s why I went with the dark background. I find that a bright screen with a white background can tire your eyes when looking at photos (of course when you’re reading text, dark on light tends to be easier). A dark background allows your eyes to relax and causes the photos to pop a bit more. I also wanted the option to display different sets of photos in different templates. I chose to use indexhibit as the back-end as it comes with a number of different gallery templates including thickbox, slideshow, and horizontal. I tweaked the horizontal template a bit (I really like the side-to-side storyboard presentation–it’s very much like walking through a gallery space) by adding in some previous and back buttons. Usability tests have shown that people don’t really get the whole horizontal scrollbar thing and would much rather click on a static button to advance.
I hope that you enjoy the photos. Please let me know what you think or if you run into any bugs.
