Automated Image Layouts
Well, I’m way behind the curve on posting this one, but I only just got around to finally reading the article. Back in the July issue of A List Apart, Harvey Kane shared an article about doing an Automatic Magazine Layout. Essentially, what it does is use some math and ‘templates’ to resize and position anywhere from 2 to 8 images for you. The results are pretty impressive in my view and something like this could be really useful for online stores where a product might have multiple images associated with it.
It’s not necessarily a “ready to go” solution as you’ll be a lot better off with an image resizing script that caches the resized images, but it’s definitely a very useful start on solving a problem you may not have even known you had. I’ll have to see if come up with a use for this.
Posted Monday September 4, 2006 in (X)HTML and CSS by Chris Curtis
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