I have debated for a while whether or not I wanted to subject the viewers of any of the galleries on this site to the issues that sometimes arise with the use of flash - long load times, annoying timers, etc. However, I recently bought the pro-version (source code) of Autoviewer from AIRTIGHT Interactive and have been having a lot of fun customizing it and trying some new gallery layouts, etc. The one caveat is that you need to have at least a little programming knowledge to make changes that aren’t part of the default option set available with the pro version.

Check out some of the samples I’ve put together - choose one of the first two by your approximate monitor resolution. The application does have an option to scale images based on browser size but I preferred to have greater control over the rest of the layout and chose to separate the two versions. If I use Autoviewer in my “real” galleries I will automatically send the user to the appropriate version. The third gallery works in all browser sizes and is a single image slide show versus the more expansive linear layout of the other two.

Height > 900
Height < 800
All sizes

Here’s a screenshot of the first gallery if you’re not interested in trying it out…

Autoviewer is supported in an online form and there are instructions for quite a few customizations that have been heavily requested.

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