Berkspopup question

[Tourguy]

I use BerksPopUp with good result for a client's site which I am still working on:
www.dentalequipments.com/

If you click one of the menu on the left and click on a thumbnail, the pop-up function well

While using the same java script in the head section and on this page, whenever a thumb is clicked, the whole window shaked once before the popup comes out.

http://www.tourguy.net/amsterdam.htm

The first link's got frame, well, per client's request. The second link is mine, u can check the source easily.

The "shaking" is quite annoying and probably an indication that I missed something. Thank you for help.

[BerksWebGuy]

Hey...you're using my script :D

I checked your site with IE and didn't see anything shaking. Does this happen all the time, with every pic...or just once?? Either way...it worked well for me.

[Tourguy]

Mmmm, I am happy to hear from you first. Thank you.

The problem exists with all the photos on this page, I am thinking to start using it on all my pages. I should use a more correct word for it, when I click and the popup's out, the orginal window blinks once, sort of a very brief refresh, shaking is not the best word.

Tonight I will try to put it on other pages, is it because there's another java script running? I am running a js hover menu.

[BerksWebGuy]

I know what you're talking about...but I don't see it. I also checked with Netscape 6, but still didn't see it.

Maybe someone else can pop-in (no pun intended) and give it a shot.

EDIT

Actually, nothing popped up in Netscape 6...so something is wrong. Try taking out the other Javascript, for testing only, and see what happens.

[Tourguy]

I took out js hover menu, still the same. Guess it's my brower's problem. I am running XP home with IE6 on a 6 month old Sony Vaio laptop.

I will try to test with other pages and see what happens. Thank you again.

Oh, was it fine at www.dentalequipments.com/ ?

[(jj)]

Tourguy,

I checked your sites using an older computer that only has a 2Mb video card running Win98se and IE 6 SP1

On the Amsterdam page I saw no "shaking" of the screen and all of the popup images came up fine.

On the Dental pages, there was no "shaking" of the screen and the images came up, but were a bit on the slow side for my dialup modem connection (over 20 seconds to before the window even appeared)


Just my "For What It's Worth"

[Tourguy]

Thanks to all, I will probably need to figure out what's wrong with my computer then. Also will try to put BerksPopUp on other pages and see what heppens.

[symo]

Tourguy, I took a look at both sites using IE 6.0.2800.1106, on an HP laptop, WinXPH, on a cable connection 1.5 MB down speed (sorry just had to add that for jj) ;)

All the images loaded fine and fast for me, without any "shaking/refresh". Liked your Copenhagen pictures. Don't know what could be causing your "shaking/refresh" issue. Have you tried from other computers?

symo

[muijefr]

It's caused by the normal way IE renders a new page and the smaller the frame or page the more noticeable it is. I use a meta transition to quiet the problem:
<META http-equiv="Page-Enter" content="revealTrans(Transition=23,Duration=2.000)">
There are 23 or 24 of these transitions so experiment.

P.S.
Woops, looked at your code and your photos are not housed in html. A solution would be to put each photo in an html document and use window.open:
<a onclick=window.open('your.html','','width=790,heig ht=525,scrollbars=yes,
resizable=yes,location=no,menubar=no,toolbar=no,to p=0,left=0')
href="javascript:void(0)">thumbnail img</a>
The window.open parameters should on one line. Housing your photos in an html document well enable you to use a more appropriate background and professional presentation (pop up in the top left corner only).

[Tourguy]

This is the only page that uses BerksPopUp, others are just in html without any elaborate background color or design.

When it's all done, all page will look like www.tourguy.net/rocikies.htm

I am debating what to do next. I have hundreds of photos up there as a travel site, some are vertical and not all are the same size. I'd better think hard before I actually fix, don't want do it twice.

Thanks for the imput. Hope there's a miracle cure, fingers crossed.

[muijefr]

Why I don't know. The large blank middle is wasted space that you could use as a viewing frame, which I think would be a knock out use, or textual information about your services/product and Amsterdam. Always remember, are you selling quality or quantity. The images you present are your business face. Put your best face on. Your current pop ups surely don't do that job. All I got was an error page when I clilcked on your "rocikies" url but will try rockies.

P.S. Your Rockies presentation is very good but the pop ups are a distraction the way they are presented. First, one size does not fit all and second, using the browsers default background color is not a good idea. Using a centered iFrame, with an appropriate size and background color for each photo is the number your looking for. Is that more work. You bet. Will that level of presentation match the rest of the page. You bet. You have way too much marketing potential not to give it your best shot.

[Tourguy]

Looks like I have found my solution for the thumbnail popup needs.

I think I have found exactly what I like, even the work involved could be murder to me fixing up every thumb link, but like muijefr
said, it's worth it and I am willing to torture myself for weeks.

Regarding the flickering problem, I will live with it. I am guessing for people using NT, ME, etc..are ok, I am using XP Home with IE6. I will just live with my own flickering, given the virtues of this script. Hope those with flickering problem would be like me to sacrifice a bit but gain a lot of smoothing clicking.

I got the script from a Germany web site (http://www.comweb.nl/javascript/thumbnail/nl_thumbnail_popup.html)

Now on this page of mine Germany (http://www.tourguy.net/germany.htm) (enabling IE's Big 5 character rendering will help make the layout to show correctly, not that you can read it - grin), click every thumbnail on the left column without closing the popped up large photo, till you're done then click the large photo to close it. The script pops up a large image to the front every time a thumb is clicked, yet using the same window. Anyway, play with them a bit you should know what this script can do,,,I like it a lot. The images on the right column are using BerksPopUp. Hey, Berk, thanks all the same.

Bear with the heavy page, I will need to take out some images to other pages where they belong.

[muijefr]

but I do understand the JavaScript. A very nice find. Thanks for sharing your solution. I might even try using it rather than window.open.