The Jury’s Still Out...

...but the verdict is in.

I just don’t think the horizontal-scrolling table works for a timeline in the blog format. While my years as an experience designer/usability engineer tell me the “long scrolling web page” is first-generation and thus to be avoided, the web and its user base have matured a great deal since the early days.

The beauty of scrolling down is that it reveals the valuable real estate running along the margins, which can contain additional navigation and links to other important information.

So, I’ve decided to add all the available information I have to the timeline page, and organize it in a way to more efficiently present this information. Each year will be broken down into several categories as follows; Artists, Cameras, Events, Movements and Works, in that order, because it’s alphabetical. And new camera releases will also be alphabetical; Canon, Leica, Minolta, Nikon, Olympus, Sony, Voigtländer, etc.

But this scrolling table does offer significant advantages is presenting information, so I’ll be keeping it on the back burner for now.