The Strake ( ? )

Flickr Photo Selection Control

I haven’t posted anything I’ve been working on for a while, so here’s a little UI piece from a soon-to-be-launched site. There’s a form users can fill out to submit a photograph to the site - they can either choose a photo from their computer or from their Flickr account (if they’ve entered their screen name).

If they click the “Choose a Flickr photo” button, the display changes to show a dropdown box with all of their photosets (plus a link to get back to choosing a file from their computer).

Once a photoset is selected, a box is displayed with thumbnails for each photo. This example set only has 5 photos, but an overflow:auto rule is in place to keep huge photosets from blowing up the page layout.

Then, a larger thumbnail is shown when a photo is selected along with links for choosing a different photo or getting back to selecting something from the computer.

I used flickraw.rb for this project - it was tons better than any of the other Ruby Flickr libraries I’ve used.