Hey, do me a favor, please…

I’m trying out different image display systems, and I think I’ve lit on one I like very much. For those interested, it’s called SlideShow Pro, works from either Flash or Adobe Lightroom, and comes with a pretty robust (I hope) content management system called SlideShow Pro Director. I’d thought about just embedding a Picasa or Flickr slideshow, but the interfaces were kinda nasty.

FYI, Morganica is actually becoming a collection of three sites, morganica.com for my art, i.e., photography and glass (plus the bloghome), glassery.com for all those lists of glass resources, schools, and galleries that I used to keep, and a TBD site that’s focused on Web, tech, and dayjob. The result is probably going to look more like three online magazines than personal website (you can’t take the journalism out of the girl, apparently).

Right now I’m playing around with different designs and cross-site look & feel (emphasis on “playing”), and looking for ways to make the sites rich and (to some extent) self-updating and easy to maintain. Sorry it’s taking so long, but I’m having trouble squeezing sleep cycles into my task list and I’m only giving the sites snatches of attention.

Anyway, imagery plays a huge part in all three sites, and I’m still trying to figure out how the blog will fit into the home page. In many ways it should BE the home page, but I’m not entirely sure I’m ready for that step–I like image “covers” too much.

So…here’s where you come in: If you don’t mind, please jump on over to morganica and let me know what you think. I’m specifically looking for answers to these questions:

• Do you see the above Web page with a Flash movie displaying a bunch of images (mostly flowerparts)? They should pretty much fill the page, and transition smoothly from one to another.
• All but one of the tabbed links are dead for the moment. But when you click on the blog tab, does it take you directly to my blog? (And yes, once I settle on a design the blog will integrate)
• There should be a semi-transparent box of text in the upper left. Can you read the text, click on the word “blog” to visit my blog, and see photo detail (faintly) through the text box?
• Do you like it? (i.e., colors, concept, design, navigation, etc.) It’s pretty simplistic, but I kinda want the content (images and blogposts) to take center stage.

Anyway, if you could help me out here, I’d really appreciate it. Please post a comment, ESPECIALLY if you have trouble viewing any of the above, and let me know what browser and operating system you’re using.

Thanks!!!!

–cynthia

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