I am doing “Project 365″ this year and for those of you who don’t know what that is, here is a quick summary. Project 365 is basically taking a picture a day for a whole year. For a really good explanation you can check out this post.
So I began thinking of a way to be able to display all the pictures, for now my pictures are posted on a photoblog. For the moment it is not that bad looking back at the pictures since there are only about 50 pictures. Hitting the previous button 365 times is going to be long and I’m sure many will give up… So my creative side has been brainstorming for the past week… I want to create a website where I will be able to look back at 2010 without having to press the back/previous button 365 times! At first I had created a calendar and each day was filled by javascript, to get a larger view I had used a lightbox – it wasn’t bad but I wanted something with an impact, although I keep going back to my original design.
While researching for the best way to display my images I came across a few very interesting ways, which I tried out and am partial to the “Fancy Thumbnail Hover Effect”. Here are a few of the galleries I found interesting:
- Fancy Thumbnail Hover Effect w/ jQuery
- Creating a polaroid photo viewer with CSS3 and jQuery
Really nice idea but when I followed the instructions of putting it into a <div> it wasn’t working anymore. Still trying to figure out why…
