Image gallery
My brother Rory Gullan is pretty handy with a camera. To tie in with his first exhibition I built him a website to showcase some of his photographs.
Of course, I needed to give him a photo gallery. I first considered using Gallery2, which I implemented for Oscar Whicheloe’s site, but ended up building something a bit more individual. While this approach means more manual work for making changes (which wouldn’t have been appropriate for Oscar’s site), I minimised this in a few key ways:
- The image for the overlay is determined by checking the value of the image “src” attribute rather than needing to manually pass it through to the javascript.
- The alt text for each of the thumbnails is read by the javascript and used for the little description box.
- I used jQuery. The point is more that I used a javascript library than which one I used - but jQuery certainly worked well!