New site: Panorama Player Comparisons

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I’ve just published a new site, one that demonstrates a range of
different web-based panorama players, all using a single standard
image. This is really aimed at the panorama photographer community,
as there hasn’t been anything like this before.

http://www.panoramaphotographer.com/comparisons/

All designed in Freeway. Panoramas embedded in the page through
various different means: media dropped straight into the page,
iframes targeting cut-down pages from elsewhere, and markup code
squirting custom scripts directly into the output.

This also incorporates a comments feature on every page, tweaked to
fit the design and placed as a bit of code in another markup item box.

The whole project took seven days to complete, from the first idea to
this current working site with fifteen different examples from
thirteen different sources. That’s just my spare time during those
seven days, mind, alongside moving to a different office at work and
supervising masters student dissertations.

This was a feat of project management and cooperation, but most
importantly it simply wouldn’t have been possible to put the site
together this quickly without Freeway.

BTW, you’ll notice that some panoramas won’t play. One is Mac only
(and needs a custom plugin), one is Windows only, one requires the
Microsoft Silverlight plugin, and some require newer versions of Java
than is found in Mac OS X 10.5 and, possibly, 10.6 as well. Shame on
Apple for lagging that far behind!

Anyway, I’d be interested to hear feedback.

k

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Clean, simple and, perhaps, academic looking design, but ideal for
the purpose. Purely from a personal design preference, I would have
spaced out the home page content a little more, with slightly larger
headings and shorter line lengths for the body copy.

Interesting to see what a good range of players there are, the mostly
subtle differences in reproduction and loading time and which work on
my Mac system, which on a PC. (Pure PLayer (Flash) failed on both).

And did you really set off the fire alarm just for this site?!

As always, apart from showcasing FW, it shows you know how to make it
your own.

Colin

On 12 Sep 2009, at 21:58, Keith Martin wrote:

I’ve just published a new site, one that demonstrates a range of
different web-based panorama players, all using a single standard
image. This is really aimed at the panorama photographer community,
as there hasn’t been anything like this before.

http://www.panoramaphotographer.com/comparisons/

All designed in Freeway. Panoramas embedded in the page through
various different means: media dropped straight into the page,
iframes targeting cut-down pages from elsewhere, and markup code
squirting custom scripts directly into the output.

This also incorporates a comments feature on every page, tweaked to
fit the design and placed as a bit of code in another markup item box.

The whole project took seven days to complete, from the first idea
to this current working site with fifteen different examples from
thirteen different sources. That’s just my spare time during those
seven days, mind, alongside moving to a different office at work and
supervising masters student dissertations.

This was a feat of project management and cooperation, but most
importantly it simply wouldn’t have been possible to put the site
together this quickly without Freeway.

BTW, you’ll notice that some panoramas won’t play. One is Mac only
(and needs a custom plugin), one is Windows only, one requires the
Microsoft Silverlight plugin, and some require newer versions of
Java than is found in Mac OS X 10.5 and, possibly, 10.6 as well.
Shame on Apple for lagging that far behind!

Anyway, I’d be interested to hear feedback.

k

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Sometime around 12/9/09 (at 23:09 +0100) Colin Alcock said:

Clean, simple and, perhaps, academic looking design, but ideal for
the purpose.

Heh. Exactly.

Yes, the home page content is a little more sparse and text-only than
I had originally thought. I left it like that as I’m planning on
extending this ‘comparisons’ suite to cover other aspects of
panoramas.

And did you really set off the fire alarm just for this site?!

Of course! If something’s worth doing…

k

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