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Author Topic: Suggestions for the Picture Warehouse Adam Martin I'm not even gonna point out the irony. Posts: 3686 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Nov 2000 posted 04-11-2003 08:56 PM                     Sure, Joe, email me those captions and I'll put them in. I use Notepad to write my HTML. I can't stand those bloaty HTML editors ... they suck. I really like the idea of the links at the top to jump to each section. What does everyone think about the columns? One or two? My thoughts on the small theaters vs. multiplexes is that the 1-4 screen theaters really are quite different from the multis. They are often architecturally more interesting or have been chopped up from a single theater. The multiplexes are starting to all look the same to me -- puke up 12 or 20 150-seat auditoriums with no character and there's your multiplex. I thought it would be nice for those of us more interested in the older classics to be able to easily browse through them without having to sort them out. Anyone else have some thoughts?  |  IP: Logged Daryl C. W. O'Shea Film God Posts: 3977 From: Midland Ontario Canada (where Panavision & IMAX lenses come from) Registered: Jun 2002 posted 04-11-2003 09:18 PM                        I think one column would be better... that's what I was talking about when I asked about viewing the page at 800x600, it gets all bunched up and cluttered when things start to wrap. I know the recommended res is 1024x768 but since the right frame is only 90% of the window you're left with about 690 pixels. AND is that Cinematour Blue?  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 04-11-2003 10:09 PM                     One column is preferred. If it can't be edited on an html editor, then the page may never get updated again, as while I can write html pages in raw code, it's annoying. Oh yeah, and Vi still sucks. Adam, try Netscape Composer. It does bloat the code just a little bit, but not enough to matter. It also writes code that all of the major browsers can read.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 04-12-2003 10:10 AM                     While you're at it turn it all into a nice coffee table book entitled "Above Projection City".... Mark  |  IP: Logged Manny Knowles "What are these things and WHY are they BLUE???" Posts: 4247 From: Bloomington, IN, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 04-13-2003 02:23 AM                     I think it's worth separating out the single screens and possibly including twins in that grouping.  |  IP: Logged Michael Brown Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1522 From: Bradford, England Registered: May 2001 posted 04-14-2003 02:28 PM                     Just a quick request: quote: Bradford Student Cinema - Michael Brown's student cinema Could you change the caption to something like 'Single Screen University Cinema in the UK'. quote: Michael Brown's student cinema You make it sound like I personally own the place or something. I just work there. (and that’s only for another couple of months).  |  IP: Logged Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 04-14-2003 04:01 PM                     I don't know how much work you're thinking of putting into the index page for the picture warehouse. Have you thought of making the categories into "filters" instead? At first, the whole list comes up, pretty much like normal. Then at the top (bottom?) of the page there could be check boxes or radio buttons where you click off the categories you want to see... Colleges, Single Screens, Googolplexes, Private Screening Rooms, etc, etc. The list would then reappear/reload but only those names that fit into one (or more) of the categories would be displayed. For an example of what I'm thinking of take a look at the new "iPhoto" application that comes (can be downloaded) with OS X. There are a few (major) things I don't like about iPhoto but the filters/categories are one of the two reasons I keep using it. The other reason is that it automatically puts all the pictures I import into folders organized (nested) by YEAR, MONTH and DAY. Finding a particular picture is a SNAP! OTOH, I would bet that this kind of interface would be hard to design and build even if you did it in PHP. Just a "spitball"...  |  IP: Logged Daryl C. W. O'Shea Film God Posts: 3977 From: Midland Ontario Canada (where Panavision & IMAX lenses come from) Registered: Jun 2002 posted 04-14-2003 04:58 PM                        quote: OTOH, I would bet that this kind of interface would be hard to design and build even if you did it in PHP. It'd be super easy if you did it in Perl though. Down with PHP and SQL!  |  IP: Logged Jean-Michel Grin Expert Film Handler Posts: 222 From: Geneva & Lausanne, Switzerland Registered: Jul 2002 posted 04-14-2003 05:58 PM                        Hi Brad, Why not a category named: worst boot or equipement Your never see ! ? Or: Projectionist's nighmare booth ? Bye Jean-Michel  |  IP: Logged Jon Miller Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 973 From: San Diego, CA, USA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 04-14-2003 07:14 PM                     I'd suggest a select group of tours that show the best booth examples and the best idea of how a good booth works. Such a category would be useful for showing curious or non-technical friends what goes on behind the scenes when it is impractical or impossible to actually invite them into a booth. I would even throw in a changeover booth, maybe one still running carbon arcs (eg: the Strand), to give an idea of how things used to be done.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 04-14-2003 07:28 PM                     Nice idea, but then everyone who didn't get put into the "special" category would be harassing me about putting their theater in it. Not worth it.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 04-14-2003 08:46 PM                        How about "Best Photographs Humanly Possible" and "Most Awesome Photographer" categories? Of course only pictures that I have personally submitted would be allowed.  |  IP: Logged Daryl C. W. O'Shea Film God Posts: 3977 From: Midland Ontario Canada (where Panavision & IMAX lenses come from) Registered: Jun 2002 posted 04-15-2003 02:09 PM                        Maybe a category for theatres with SUPER-PHIGGIDY Digital Sound Systems.  |  IP: Logged Michael Brown Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1522 From: Bradford, England Registered: May 2001 posted 04-15-2003 05:45 PM                     What about SUPER-PHIGGIDY Analog Sound Systems.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 04-15-2003 06:39 PM                     That would require a bumper sticker.  |  IP: Logged

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