Another Koken migration
Posted: 13 Feb 2020, 19:09
Hi there
As many in this forum, I have migrated my site searchlight.zone rom the late Koken (RIP :-( ) to X3. First of all I have to admit that X3 is a very powerful tool and that it's DB-less design is very appealing.
What is my experience in this transition?
The good
So much from my end - what do you think about my page? Is there anything I should change or optimize? I know that my photos are quite large and take a bit of time to load - my intention is to present them at a proper resolution for 4K displays - I have greatly decreased the resolution in the last upload but I'm unaware if the resolution is still sufficent for high resolution displays.
Sorry for the long first post and @Karl keep on the great work!
Regards
As many in this forum, I have migrated my site searchlight.zone rom the late Koken (RIP :-( ) to X3. First of all I have to admit that X3 is a very powerful tool and that it's DB-less design is very appealing.
What is my experience in this transition?
The good
- Nice and clean layout
- Good (and alive) support forum
- Optimized for photo presentation
- I like the map feature very much :thumbsup:(that's why I purchased the pro license)
- Seems faster than Koken (even when using behind Cloudflare CDN)
- Works with PHP 7.4 (when applying the preiew-fix described in this forum)
- Much better feedback while loading pictures than Koken
- When using the "use as intro" feature, I cannot size the picture(s) to stay below the navigation bar
- Using the "use as intro" feature, I cannot use a whole subfolder structure as a source to display pictures
- No Lightroom plugin (but I'm using Jeffrey Friedls collection publisher and metadata wrangler which gives me almost the comfort of the LR plugin with much more control over the metadata
- Due to license restrictions I'm not able to use my purchased license with full functionality on my local test environment (VM)
- There is some sort of lacking features in presenting the GDPR dialog - it's only informative but the user cannot decide which cookies he agrees to allow and which ones he denies to use
- What I'm deeply missing is the possibility to rate / like my pictures - with the payed plugin in Koken my audience hat the chance to express themselves which pictures they liked - and I got a feedback, what they liked or did not liked as much. There is no such feature in X3 :disappointed:
- I cannot combine any view with a slideshow. With Koken (or Phoca running on Joomla) the user can click a picture in the grid and to open it in a "Lightbox" and start running a slideshow from this picture. In X3 I have to decide if I would present the pictures in grid view or as a slideshow - there seems no possibility to combine those two views - that's odd!
So much from my end - what do you think about my page? Is there anything I should change or optimize? I know that my photos are quite large and take a bit of time to load - my intention is to present them at a proper resolution for 4K displays - I have greatly decreased the resolution in the last upload but I'm unaware if the resolution is still sufficent for high resolution displays.
Sorry for the long first post and @Karl keep on the great work!
Regards