renojohn
July 9th, 2008, 05:38 PM
Short Story:
I'm looking for an 'intro' page for my amateur/hobby website. I have aprox 400images (and growing) that I'd like to load on a random basis for as long as the viewer wants to sit there and view them before going to the 'home page"
current page is here: http://www.goraiders.org/bike/
Long Story:
I've meddled a bit but I am in over my head with what I'd like to to and am soliciting help.
I did dabble with php random image and for whatever reason (me?), when the next image attempted to load i got all kinds of weird issues.
I then (current status of intro page) did swf movie as a slide show. I must admit the clean nature of swf movies/slideshow seemed to this rookie to be a cleaner look. However, not random though, -so the movie always starts out the same -boring for viewers. I then thought perhaps a half-butt solution would be to break up the many images into many swf slide shows and have those swf files randomly load. I
not being very creative myself :-) , the intro page idea came from the cool intro page on this(clicky) (http://www.advrider.com/) professional site. I'd like to do similar but need not be as fancy.
Not rich and famous but would gladly pay for someone's expertise to create or help with a solution. Thanks much!
John A
renojohn2007 @ goraiders.org
EDIT July12: Thank You All who inquired directly to me on this. The response was nice! and it sure seems like some skilled folks on here. It seems we're moving forward and I owe thanks to this board for letting this non-techy get some needed help. Cheers
I'm looking for an 'intro' page for my amateur/hobby website. I have aprox 400images (and growing) that I'd like to load on a random basis for as long as the viewer wants to sit there and view them before going to the 'home page"
current page is here: http://www.goraiders.org/bike/
Long Story:
I've meddled a bit but I am in over my head with what I'd like to to and am soliciting help.
I did dabble with php random image and for whatever reason (me?), when the next image attempted to load i got all kinds of weird issues.
I then (current status of intro page) did swf movie as a slide show. I must admit the clean nature of swf movies/slideshow seemed to this rookie to be a cleaner look. However, not random though, -so the movie always starts out the same -boring for viewers. I then thought perhaps a half-butt solution would be to break up the many images into many swf slide shows and have those swf files randomly load. I
not being very creative myself :-) , the intro page idea came from the cool intro page on this(clicky) (http://www.advrider.com/) professional site. I'd like to do similar but need not be as fancy.
Not rich and famous but would gladly pay for someone's expertise to create or help with a solution. Thanks much!
John A
renojohn2007 @ goraiders.org
EDIT July12: Thank You All who inquired directly to me on this. The response was nice! and it sure seems like some skilled folks on here. It seems we're moving forward and I owe thanks to this board for letting this non-techy get some needed help. Cheers