Gallery Ideas

The first idea that I have had to display my work in a gallery to to have a scroll menu which will move either left or right depending on the position off your mouse. I have been researching various websites that use this technique and any other gallery ideas that i like, to see what various different styles and designs there for displaying your work in a website.

http://www.brookpifer.com/#/Portfolio/Campaigns/1

What I like about this is there are no arrows to choose whether you want to forward or back. The image is the button and depending which half of the image you roll over with your mouse, it will take you that way. This is a creative and different idea and looks a lot better than having to line drawn arrows underneath the images.

http://www.tomnagy.com/publish/html/index.html

This website uses the scroll menu to display thumbnails of the gallery. Its runs nice and smoothly but the only problem is getting the menu to stop when you have found an image that you want to view, the menu does move quite quickly.

Layout Ideas

I have been looking around at various website to see which design and layouts I like the best and could be used an inspiration for my portfolio website.

http://www.deep.co.uk/

I like the scroll movie at the side of this homepage. It lets the viewer get a quick idea of the kind of work you create before having to look through all of the pages on the website.

http://www.domdesignonline.de

I really like the simple and minimalistic style that has been used for this website. It lets you concentrate on the work and doesn't have a lot going on to distract you from doing this. Simple, plain and neutral colours help complement your work.