Get rid of filename and comment count

[mike]

Let's simplify here. I've seen modified Plogger galleries without the filename or the comment count beneath the images within an album, and it looks really nice. I doubt that filenames hold any additional meaning to the image itself. So, I say we strike the image name.

The comment count can be represented in a new way. I had this idea the other night, but I don't know if it is possible: When you mouse over an image, somehow we could display a small square in the upper right hand corner with the number of comments within that. The square would be an overlay over the image and would dissapear when you moused away from the picture. If we can't do that, I was thinking we could do a custom tooltip with an icon and the number of comments within it.

[mike]

Mockup of desired effect

[jack]

Hey Mike,

Personally I really can't understand what's the use of seeing how many comments a picture of post has gotten. As with the exif information I find it a total waste of database space and something polluting a website with unnecessary (visual) information. But anyway, if people want to know how many comments, they will find out soon enough when they click the thumbnail and see the intermediate image with comments.

I don't want to sound selfish (I'm just looking at the gallery system as a whole and how if 'feels' when using and viewing it), but what about my suggestion in ticket 85? The short title could perhaps be used in the manner you described, instead of the number of comments.

I made an example with one row of thumbs with the short title beneath them, and one row with versions of a small rollover box.

Let me know what you think of it :)

http://www.spoenk.nl/temp/example-thumbs.html

[jack]

A small addition to the above: I think titles always visible would be more userfriendly. As a visitor you can scan the titles (and images) on the page quickly, to see if there is something of interest to you. I was thinking about let's say a gallery with images of all kinds of dogs, insects, furniture, clocks or whatever. You can't tell by just viewing the small thumb what kind of dog it is. So I you were only interested in golden retrievers you would have to click all thumbs with colors that resemble those yellowish dogs to find out. A small title/name beneath a thumb would be much easier. For my own site I want visitors to be able to click and view only those images they find interesting. If it's only one thumb per page, ok that's it. I'm trying to minimize the chance they will be clicking and viewing images for nothing, because that will only annoy them. Because looking at myself, I never do the slideshow thing or the next-previous images on any site. I find it time consuming and in a lot of cases I see images I would have not chosen to see in the first place. The result is a leave the site very soon.

Perhaps make this a topic on the forum, just like anti did with the question about what a multi-user system should be able to do?

[mike]

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