Subject: | Easier navigation & other human factors suggestions |
This is a wishlist item - but it is important.
Couple of suggestions based on feedback from my users (and my own use):
Browsing the gallery is a bit awkward - once you view a photo, you have
to use the browser's "back" button to get to the next photo. This can
also be slow when the previous page is full. (And worse when, as in my
case, the gallery is served via SSL!)
In the single photo view, it would be good to add 3 links above each
photo (left of the filename):
Next (Next photo in current directory - if last, go up to the
directory view (thumbnails)
Previous (Previous photo in current directory - if first, go up
to the directory view)
<directoryname> (Back to the directory view) (Next and Previous
should not go into sub-directories!) And for the directory views
(except the top), a link to the next higher directory.
I think this would make it a lot easier and much less confusing to
browse a collection.
Finally, new users often think that the preview thumbnails next to a
gallery name are the entire contents. It might help if there were a
column heading such as "Sample photos". It could go next to
the "Galleries" heading. And maybe the "View" button should be "View
all photos"...