kurtismjohnson

Ok, sorry for replying so much, but by the time you see this and check again, I have made another gallery with photos that are 2000px long side but compressed to match the other smaller size of the last gallery I made. Theyre between 200-400kb each. I have a couple different galleries now that I can swap out pretty easily. But this one seems to look the best and according to Pingdom’s speed test I am in pretty good shape.

I still am curious about my 3 questions above though. It still seems like it loads a little slow on mobile, but it’s not terrible. I’m open to making the images even smaller but I also dont want to sacrifice quality.

Anyways, sorry for the rant. I appreciate the assistance.

Ok I went and resized the photos. There are still 3-4 that I didnt have the original files for with me so I will have to do those later, but 95% are smaller. Maybe it’s a little better?

Couple of additional questions:

1. Is it possible I just have too many photos in the gallery? Does it matter? I want just one simple gallery for people to see when they visit the page.
2. Is there a way to make the Lightbox smaller? When I click on a landscape oriented photo, it stretches it quite a bit and looks pixelated, especially on a larger screen.
3. Am I just overthinking this? Its possible I am pixel-peeping my own photos which no one else is likely to do…

Thanks!

• This reply was modified 1 year, 4 months ago by kurtismjohnson.

Thanks! Ive gone smaller before but they looked grainy/low res in the Lightbox which was also frustrating. Currently they’re about 500kb-1mb when exported, them compressed a bit more on top of that. Maybe that is still too large. I never went lower than 1500px on the long edge though. But yes, these are currently closer to 2000.

Hey! Thank you for the reply. I am using another plugin for now, but I do still prefer the way Final Tiles looks. I made a test page so you can see what I mean. It’s not linked anywhere on the site, but you can view it here.

https://kurtismjohnson.com/test/

I am using my phone in private mode so that it doesnt save my cache. It just loads so slow on mobile, so I wasn’t sure if if this was a known issue, or if there was something I needed to do to make it faster. It seems to load very fast with the current gallery plugin I am using.

Hey! Thank you so much for the kind words! I actually just replaced the slideshow with the tiled gallery/letterbox and I think I am happy with it for now. I am still working on somewhat of a redesign, and adding more copy, but that isnt relevant to this thread. If anyone stumbles across the site I am fine with how it looks at the moment.

I do appreciate the reply and I’ll close or delete this topic.

Actually figured it out. This is the code I used. It removed the “I” and the numbers.

.jp-carousel-info h2,
.jp-carousel-info {
display: none !important;
}

I swear I tried that, but I have “information” instead of just “info” typed in. Just wanted to share in case anyone else is curious.

• This reply was modified 2 years, 2 months ago by kurtismjohnson.