Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Creating a Zoomify



I was thinking of what I was going to put into my zoomify the other day and remembered how I had looked at the river island website not so long ago. It reminded me of the zoomify I was creating as you can zoom into the clothes on this site, so I went on to get an idea of how mine would work out. When you look at all their different clothes and shoes each individual item has their own zoomify. You click on the item that opens up into a new window which my zoomify does too and to get back to the previous page you must close down this window. I found this a great website as it gave me an insight into what I could do. I decided that I didn't want just one item or picture to appear in my zoomify, but unlike river islands website I wanted a lot of different pictures so people could have a wider variety of things to look at in detail. You can zoom in and out and scroll side to side or up and down in the river island site and also my one. I dont like how you can't minimize the items on river island as you cant link back to what you were looking at or what you found. Once you close it it is gone and you must do this to look at other items. On my zoomify it will ba a seperate window that you can minimize which will be more beneficial to viewers.