Flenniken.net Collections

You use Collections to privately share your photos with your friends and family on an iphone. It runs in a browser but looks a lot like a native app.

Each collection contains photos related to a single topic, place, or event, with a description about each one. Having associated text and good photos is intended to make the collection more meaningful and long lasting.

You navigate and view collections on three types of pages, the index page, the image page and the thumbnails page.

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Index Page

The index page shows the sorted list of available collections with the most recent collection on top. You can scroll through the list.

Each collection has a title, thumbnail, description, and post date.

You login with your email and password by clicking the circle icon in the upper righthand side of the index page. You see your first initial when logged in, otherwise you see a person's outline. When you are logged in and you click the icon, you see your name and the logout button.

You must be logged in to download and view new collections. You can continue to view already downloaded collections when not logged in or when off online.

The icons do the following:

• about the app
• login and logout
• view the collection's images
• view the collection's thumbnails
• download the collection's images
• delete the collection's cached images

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Image Page

The image page shows one image at a time. The image is custom zoomed (a zoom point) to fit the screen showing the best view for the screen orientation and size.

You can zoom and pan an image with two fingers. A double tap goes to the zoom point, or if you’re ready there it fits the image to the screen.

You scroll left and right to go to the previous and next images in the collection. The next and previous images line up pixel perfect side by side. This is good for multi-images that look like one wide image.

You scroll to the bottom to see a description of the image.

You go back to the thumbnails or index page by scrolling to the bottom and tapping the thumbnail or index icon.

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Thumbnails Page

The thumbnails page shows the collection’s thumbnails.

Past the bottom of the thumbnails you see the collection's title and a more in depth description of the collection than on the index page.

You go back to the index page by scrolling to the bottom and tapping the index icon.

Tapping the photo icon shows the first photo full size on the image page.

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Run Collections

You can install the app's icon on your iphone's home screen then tap it to run. This is the recommended way to run Collections because it looks better and the photos can use the whole screen.

You install the app’s icon on your home screen following these steps:

• launch safari on iphone (it doesn't install on chrome or firefox)
• go to:

https://collections.sflennik.com

• tap the share icon at the bottom center of the screen
• scroll down and select “Add to Home screen” and tap add

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Contents

• Index Page
• Image Page
• Thumbnails Page
• Run Collections

Other

• Developer Topics — how to build and develop Collections.