I no longer hate Javascript, which is nice; although I still find myself treating it with a good deal of suspicion.  The past week or so has seen a flurry of site related activity.  A good deal of it won’t be particularly discernable, but some of it will.

I have added tooltips throughout the site.  Essentially, these are just a slightly slicker version of the default box that appears whenever you position you cursor over an image on a web page.  I have used them to offer further instructions or guidance and increase the usability of aspects of the site. They can also be used to highlight the location of any given image, which is what I have done on the Wallpaper page and the new iPhone wallpaper page.  By placing your cursor over the thumbnails on the respective pages you can now see where the image was captured.  This change was implemented as a result of feedback received, for which I am grateful.  In relation to the Wallpaper page, I will be working over the coming days to ensure that the resolutions still outstanding are provided so that there are no links under construction from the page.  The iPhone wallpaper page is entirely new and was the source of a good deal of the trickery and tomfoolery over the past week or so.  I have tried, in so far as I can, to make the experience of choosing the wallpaper for the phone as visual as possible, so when you rollover a thumbnail you now have a clear indication of what it will look like on an iPhone.  The impact of the iPhone may lead me to create a complete site specifically for it, but this is still a little way off at the moment. 

The next page that I will be dealing with is a Podcast page.  Podcasts are linked on each page and dealt with in a little more detail on the Information page, but I have decided to design a new page specifically for them.  The files will also be uploaded to YouTube and freely embeddable in blogs and other web pages.  Currently, there is only one podcast episode available.  I hope to add another in the next few days and then fairly regularly thereafter.  Finally, I have taken the galleries off line briefly so that I can revamp them. They should be back up over the coming days.

I have been inhabiting the murky world of Javascript coding for the past week, hence the lack of any visible progress.  It really can be a temperamental beast.  A lot of work is being done on the pages to improve them and their usability.  Hopefully, additions will be made soon after I have ironed out some of the remaining glitches on the pages.

I have completed the tweaking mentioned in my last post.  Further resolutions have been added to the Wallpaper pages and the navigation has been changed.  The new resolutions (1280×800, 1680×1050) haven’t been added yet, I hope to add them over the coming weekend.  You can access the new page through link above or by clicking here.  I have also started designing a page with downloadable wallpaper specifically for the iPhone, it will require a little more thinking before its properly available.

In addition to all this I am trying to push forward with the mobile version of the site.  Aspects of the design of the mobile version are proving quite challenging as the visual elements of mobile sites are quite limited.  I’m working through a few gallery options and will see what happens.  It is likely that any mobile version of the site won’t include the e-commerce features, and will just be an informative showcase for the main site.  This means that there will be far fewer galleries available.

Following my last post and some really good feedback, I am currently making some amendments to the ‘Wallpaper’ page.  I have decided to drop some resolutions and add others just to give a more comprehensive spread.  I will also be improving the navigation options.  Hopefully, the new page and links will offer an improved experience. 

In the unlikely and perhaps disturbing event that you are interested, Wikipedia includes a useful guide to the resolution and the percentage stream of users.  That can be found here.

I have completed a new ‘Wallpaper’ page for the site from which images can be downloaded and used as wallpaper on PCs or laptops.  The images can be accessed here.  Instructions on how to set the images as desktop wallpaper can be accessed here.

I have finished adding a ‘Books’ page to the site.  It can be accessed through the link above, by clicking here, or through the home page.

There is one book available at the moment, it contains images taken during a trip to Pisa and Florence in 2007. I will be adding more books over time, (a book of images taken in Rome and one of images taken in London are currently being developed).

The books are available to purchase through blurb.com who also handle the shipping of the book.