Introduction to ShowPic

Quick instructions

Inserting the image & captions

Applying the behaviour - 1

Applying the behaviour - 2

Scrub & replacing image

Keeping it lightweight

Moving things about

Moving the descriptive text

How PVII ShowPic Works

First of all - what is ShowPic?

ShowPic is one of the many extensions developed by Project Seven for Macromedia Dreamweaver. It was originally available only as part of the Park Avenue Design Pack (released by PVII in May 2002), or in Volume 1 of the Macromedia MX Developer Resource Kit. Since 30 April 2003, it has been made available as a free extension.

What does it do?

The easiest way is to show you. Click me. Now click me.

So what's so special about that? Several things, actually...

1. ShowPic does not load the image until visitors to your site activate the link - making for faster loading pages, and happier visitors
2. It automatically displays a "loading" message for people on slow connections to let them know their request is being dealt with
3. ShowPic automatically inserts the title and caption for you - and creates the necessary CSS classes (if you want to apply them)
4. It can cope with images of different sizes, adjusting the width of the title and caption to match the image being shown

Now, how it's done

 

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Easton Lodge

The Countess of Warwick commissioned Harold Peto to lay out Italian and Japanese gardens at Easton Lodge in 1903. Sadly, they were abandoned in 1950, but much restoration work has been done; and the gardens are now regarded as "a delight". A tenbodai (viewing platform) looking out over the lakes now stands where there was once a Japanese tea house.

Real Japanese Garden, nr Carmarthen

The garden display that won a gold medal and the Best in Show award at the Chelsea Flower Show in 2001 has been recreated at the Garden of Wales, its new permanent home. The miniature Japanese landscape designed by Professor Masao Fukuhara brings together three traditional styles - pond and spring, dry stone and tea garden. Professor Fukuhara hand-picked the natural materials he needed, listening to the 'voice' of each stone and placing it precisely within the design according to its character and sexuality.