India travel blog

[zdav]

hi,

In july my girlfriend and I traveled through India for 3 weeks. I decided to build a website around the pictures we took there. Part because we thought it would be a nice way to show our pictures to people, part to improve my jQuery skills (jQuery is a javascript library. Javascript makes websites do fun stuff).

The original idea came from a couple of Spanish guys we met on a different trip. They had marked their route on a map and pasted miniature pictures on the map of places they had visited.

Because we enjoy showing the pictures to people using this website I am thinking of making it more generic and based on google maps e.g. so it can be used for other trips, maybe even by other people. What do you think of the idea?

Has anyone seen this before? Please tell me where, so I'm not reinventing the wheel. I can imagine others have thought of the same idea. I know flickr does some kind of geo tagging and other travelblogs make a link between a maps and a set of pictures but I wanted to make it as close as possible to a real map.

http://www.zdav.be/india

Anyway, enjoy the pictures and feel free to give your feedback,
kind regards,

Staf

 

[wde60]

Very enjoyable. Thanks.

 

[Mudman]

very cool site with how it travels on the map. My only nit is the slide show is a bit clutchy on my computer.

 

[ederek]

Staf - the format is quite interesting, nice effort!

Couple observations
1) the web title just says "Title", so it could get lost in a sea of window tabs (I have close to 60 tabs open at the moment in one browser window)
2) it is hard to get a sense of how far along in the 'show' one is, both within a city (maybe a thumbnail strip?), and within the entire trip (though when the X is clicked it shows a list of the stops to the right. This makes it harder to budget time for viewing.

Very original layout and experience, it's "tres cool". I'd keep evolving it.

 

[surfer dude]

There are some lovely photos in the blog, Staf, and the blog is very engaging. I think it's a great idea!

 

[zdav]

tnx for your feedback guys.

@ederek, those are some good observations. I will definitely try to indicate where you are in the slideshow

 

[Waus]

Great website, with some lovely photo's! Well done!

 

[ederek]

@zdav - glad to help, and it's great that you clearly had such a wonderful trip!

 

[HuubL]

Great photos and great website too! I love the sliding travel map!