Let me fist explain the overall idea behind this new design. I wanted to use the dynamic resizing of the images in D2 with the fixed and open menu of D1. This makes this site incredibly client friendly. In addition to that I wanted the thumbnails to display every thumb for every picture in your entire site (except hidden and password protected of course). Again, another client friendly application that will allow them to scan the entire site in a matter of minutes. Finally, I wanted to do something cool with the homepage slide show. We made it so you could have the images fill the browser frame with your logo and menu overlaid on top (you can opt to have the slideshow normal if you like).

Here’s an example of the full frame slideshow: http://www.adarknessvisible.com

You will notice in that example where we made it possible for you to have your whole site display full frame with the logo and menu overlaid on top of the images. The only downside to doing this besides having your menu on top of the images is that it will crop the side or the bottom of your image to fit in whatever size browser window your client has open.

Here’s a demo of the new site as I envisioned it: http://72.32.9.12/~smurphy

Here’s an example of someone already using it:

http://leannmueller.com

http://www.ryanschude.com

Now, while we were making the settings for the new site we decided to give you all kinds of control in the template settings. You can:

Set the width of the border on all 4 sides.
Set the width of the menu.
Set the vertical and horizontal position of the menu.
Adjust the transparency of the menu box color.
Adjust the transparency of your logo/text title.
Set the font size of the menu categories/pages.
Set the font size of the galleries/sub menu items.
Set the font size of the bottom navigation bar.
Determine the vertical position of the bottom navigation bar.
Set the font size of the bottom contact info and copyright.
Determine the vertical position of the bottom contact info and copyright.

That can make the settings kinda complicated so I have some help on the setup page with an explanation of the settings and a map showing where the effect takes place. http://aphotofolio.com/design-3-brooklyn-bridge/

Since we launched 3 months ago we’ve added password protected and hidden galleries and we’re on track to add video support to all the sites by late December.