Zoomability
March 22nd, 2008
The importance of images in product description pages has been well documented.
A high quality pic can turn a browser into a customer. As broadband’s become the norm in the western world, online shops have been getting more adventurous with their use of images.
Combined some well written code, product pages are now giving the user the facility to closely inspect an item before buying. Great from the customer and the shop perspective.
Magneto product page has a nice image zoomer and Habitat’s product page has a very tidy mouseover inspection. Probably soon to become the norm across the web. In contrast, the mouseover action on the category home pages of Habitat leave me reeling! (Fail harder?)
The bigger online stores are lagging a bit behind in this respect. The ebay interface is still pretty clunky, Amazon’s product page is hugely cluttered.
March 26th, 2008 at 11:44 am
I am becoming a fan of Fancy Zoom. Just for its simplicity, easy to incorporate and does what I need an image viewer to do. Plus i have stopped using the back button which I alway did/do with Lightbox.
http://www.cabel.name/2008/02/fancyzoom-10.html
March 27th, 2008 at 4:08 pm
nice little widget - funny choice to put close on the top left when every other app puts it top right - or is it different for you Macaholics?
Nice that it doesn’t break the back button functionality.
http://www.fieldexpert.com/2006/01/03/ajax-best-practices-dont-break-back/
March 27th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
Yep top left for us a mac users, BUT i did think the same thing, Top right would have been a better place for it.
March 27th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
must be a maccer