I’m working on wireframes for a new presentation of lead stories and images. I wrote earlier about the challenges of coming up with a flexible solution that can handle vertical and horizontal images of varying widths and heights. I plan to use jQuery to create a carousel with display panels rotating through. This is nothing new and is widely used. I am trying a different approach with the layout of each panel. Although this solution would require quite a bit of work on the back end to add the flexibility, the ability to add different content modules based on the image size and orientation desired would be well worth it.
The only example I can really think of is msnbc.om with their top content area. If you visit the site throughout the day you’ll see it changes regularly and uses different layouts, images sizes and orientations. That is what I’d like to do but on a much smaller scale that would be one panel of the carousel. I’m going to post some wireframes soon once I hash out some of the initial design issues. Hopefully we’re on our way to a to having a solution that will work for multiple products and is something that the Editors and myself are happy with.
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I’m working on wireframes for a new presentation of lead stories and images. I wrote earlier about the challenges of coming up with a flexible solution that can handle vertical and horizontal images of varying widths and heights. I plan to use jQuery to create a carousel with display panels rotating through. This is nothing new and is widely used. I am trying a different approach with the layout of each panel. Although this solution would require quite a bit of work on the back end to add the flexibility, the ability to add different content modules based on the image size and orientation desired would be well worth it.
The only example I can really think of is msnbc.om with their top content area. If you visit the site throughout the day you’ll see it changes regularly and uses different layouts, images sizes and orientations. That is what I’d like to do but on a much smaller scale that would be one panel of the carousel. I’m going to post some wireframes soon once I hash out some of the initial design issues. Hopefully we’re on our way to a to having a solution that will work for multiple products and is something that the Editors and myself are happy with.
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