Topic: Finally up to date, but I'd like some help.

[Sandeha Lynch]

A couple of years ago I put together a photo book specifically for reading online, but since then responsive paging has become pretty important.  You'd hardly think anyone would want to read a book on their phone but nonetheless, these days phones are bigger and tablets are smarter.

http://www.sandehalynch.com/books/100bw/index.html

I have rejigged the book with Bootstrap and I've been testing it out on Screenfly to see how it looks on smartphones, Kindles, iThings, and so on.  But compared with fixed dimension image formatting the pairs of photos are now far less equal on the page, most obviously where a landscape is paired with a portrait.

The solution is fairly simple - to reduce the image size of a handful of the vertical pics so that they pair up better when viewed on a horizontal format screen.  However, it's only worth doing that if some people find the imbalance off-putting.  After all, it would also make some the vertical images much, much smaller.

Hence the poll.  What do you think?  The poll is one thing, but opinions are welcome.   

[Indofunk]

On my phone (Galaxy6), no two photos ever appear next to one another, whether viewing horizontally or vertically. It's always one above another. On my computer, of course, I see the two photos next to each other. Given this, it's much more important to me that the photos line up on the computer, as it is a non-issue on the phone.

Also, both on PC and phone, it is not at all intuitive how to advance pages. I figured out that I need to click on the right-hand image to advance and the left-hand image to go back, but clickable little centered arrows at the far right and left would really help. Also, on my phone I was hoping that simply swiping right, left, up, or down would accomplish that, but it did not.

Hope that helps, at least to give you one data point.

[Sandeha Lynch]

Yep, unlike the main gallery pages on the site, these pages cannot be swiped.  With almost all small phones they should always go one under the other as this avoids having a sideways scroll.  On a big Kindle or tablet they should be side by side like on a PC monitor, just smaller.

"To navigate forwards click on the right-hand image or use the INDEX link to go to a particular page. Alternatively you can read the book in random order by using the Shuffle button."

Didja read that on the title page, didja?   

I'm hoping the Shuffle button appears on your phone as well.  Thanks for the instant response !!

[jharr]

On my computer screen, I like the scaling of the photos the way it is. It is sort of like a magazine layout. On my phone (Moto X) the photos all scale to the same width, so that is perfect. I wouldn't change anything.

[Francois]

I don't really know as I'm not a fan of online books... for me, they're just another website.

I know that now it's dead easy to make something really good using Calibre and Sigil... so why not make it an ePub file?
These are essentially self contained websites. Sigil uses regular HTML to build them. And Calibre can convert pretty much any format to any format, so you can just take a word doc and convert it with bookmarks and all...

[Indofunk]

Didja read that on the title page, didja?   

Wait, now I'm expected to READ stuff? 

[Sandeha Lynch]

Francois, easy isn't the issue - there are loads of modules out there for ezines, ebooks and so on.   Rather than find other software I wanted to update my Dreamweaver skills so, in the whole site, I've used/learned a range of newer tools including some imported stuff like the gallery and menu.

If you should happen to read the Introduction (Indofunk, you listening?) you'll see why I favour the web over tree-sourced reading materials. 

[Bryan]

I just viewed it on my iPad mini and it looks great.  Viewing it vertical and horizontal the images are side by side.  I wouldn't change a thing.

[Sandeha Lynch]

That's good to hear, Bryan.  Fact is, I have loads of other gallery pages to convert and I was hoping I was done with this  one.   

[jojonas~]

well this was nice! the text really does it for me. it's a good "bite size"
I also think the mix of formats works well like this