Reply To: Going Meta / Atelier – WooCommerce – Swiftslider

[alibey]

hi ed,

I am closing this topic, and may start a different thread regarding the swift slider. User acceptance testing has started on the site i the US, so that will drive my feedback or any tickets. My client has a bit of a following in the needlepoint world, so the feedback should be very interesting, not just re my client’s site, but how atelier works from a UX perspective with a particular demographic.

Just so you know, needlepoint canvases (which is what my client sells) have a moire problem that is very difficult to solve; it is not a simple matter of taking a standard product pic and gimping it. This is why the pics need to be extremely large (800 by 800 works best, often thumbs from an image that size will look fairly horrible because of the moire issue. so 1200px w is even better, and start to greatly reduce if not eliminate moire, although there are other tricks that can be used), although of course I run them thru tiny png to try to keep them under 300kb.

The main issue I have found regarding pic sizes in the Swift slider so far is that specified the slider image by hand does not produce reliable results, such that if height is custom sized in the add slider panel to say 500px with proportional width, the actual result is an image that is far smaller than 500px h and looks fairly crappy.

will keep at it, and let you know the results later.

cheers,

ali