Hardin MD Gallery pages’ simple design makes them intrinsically mobile-friendly. They work especially well on an iPhone because they fit well on the screen, as described below. To go to Hardin MD Mobile click logo:
In the rest of this article, I’ll discuss and illustrate why Hardin MD Galleries are especially usable on an iPhone. I’ll also discuss the process of mobilizing Hardin MD, describe which galleries are most usable on a mobile device now, and talk some about future development.
We’ve been pleased to realize that Hardin MD galleries work especially well on an iPhone because most images have a similar aspect-ratio to the iPhone — 1:1.5 — which is relatively unusual for a computer screen, though very common in photography (4″x6″ snapshots).
We didn’t plan it that way, but it happens that most of the images in Hardin MD are about 720 x 480 pixels (the same 1:1.5 aspect ratio as the iPhone), in landscape orientation. So, as shown in the screenshots at left, Hardin MD images fit nicely on the iPhone screen in landscape view.
Most of the individual disease/condition galleries in HMD are fairly usable on a mobile device as they are, although the navigational thumbnail images for some are rather poor. The weakest aspect of mobile-usability is the broad-grouping super-gallery thumbnail directories — Thumbnails work well for individual galleries of pictures on a particular disease condition, but they don’t work so well for super-galleries, which have several different diseases. So we’ll be making scrolling-list menus, which work well on an iPhone, for the broad topic groups, as we work on improving the mobile navigation of the individual galleries within each group. For now, the first broad-group menu is public-domain, free-to-copy galleries.
Other super-galleries, for which we’ll make mobile menus in the future are:
- Galleries Home (Selection) || All Galleries
- AIDS
- Autoimmune Diseases
- Cancer
- Childrens Diseases/Pediatrics
- Foot Problems
- Herpes Virus
- Insect Bites
- Mouth Sores
- Nail Conditions
- Oral Diseases/Dentistry
- Skin Rashes
- STD’s
- Tropical Diseases
Besides working to improve the mobile-accessibility of super-galleries, we’ll also be trying out a second type of mobile access for individual galleries, by putting pictures in a WordPress blog — WordPress (with a wide array of smart plugins) does a wonderful job in displaying pictures on blog pages, especially because it’s so smart in handling portrait and landscape orientation. The nice fit of Hardin MD images on an iPhone screen, described above for existing galleries, also works well in a WordPress blog. Our first one is here >> Measles pictures from CDC
Eric Rumsey is at: eric-rumseytemp AttSign uiowa dott edu and on Twitter @ericrumseytemp
I have to say, your pictures are quite amazing. I have a great number of Bell’s Palsy and Bilateral Bell’s Palsy pictures of high resolution. They range from initial complete paralysis to 4 years along the journey to recovery. How would I go about adding them to your library?
Robert.
I am also interested.
As a photographer and an IT guy I love to see them integrated like this. I have been helping a local dentist put xrays to use to make it easier to converse with patients without crowding up to a computer desk and this is right in line with our thinking. Great!
There are great plugins for wordpress that can help with additional compatibility for mobile devices. wordpress.org has a lot of open source developers that have devoted a lot of time to making dental sites compatible with mobile devices wordpress mobilepack is one.
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