We are excited to announce the unveiling of our new and improved online Gallery of Images!  With larger thumbnails, more advanced navigation options and a clean, fresh look, the new gallery is certainly bookmark worthy!

The gallery is organized in reverse, showing the most recent photographs first, so you’ll always know what’s new at Crown Point!   (We just posted photos from our most recent photo shoot-a beautiful small kitchen, with cabinetry finished in Farrow & Ball’s Wimborne White.)

Read on for some tips for easy navigation of the new gallery:

1)  Once you click into a particular gallery, there are five(!) choices for browsing all images:

• Click the triangle to play them all as a slideshow.
• Tap the Space bar on your keyboard to play all as a slideshow
• Click the left/right arrows at the top of the screen to advance or go back one image
• Click each individual thumbnail
• Use the Arrow keys on the keyboard: Left/Right or Up/Down, either will work to browse each image in sequence

2)  If viewing a gallery on a smaller screen, the image can be made full size by either:

• Clicking the zoom icon
• Tapping the “F” key on your keyboard

3)  To close out of a gallery, you can either:

• Tap the Close icon
• Hit the “ESC” key on your keyboard

For all you mobile techies out there, the new gallery is non-Flash based and works on the iPhone, iPad, and the iPod Touch!

Making its debut on the new Gallery of Images is a brand new drop down menu.  The new menu stays accessible-even when scrolling-yet it remains discreetly out of the way.  You’ll be seeing this menu throughout the site as we continue our “remodel!”

The blue “Open Menu” button is shown here, still visible, though we have scrolled down the page.

We click on it, and our full site menu is accessible! Choose your link, or simply click the blue button that now says, “Close Menu”.

Now that you know how to navigate around the new gallery, it’s time to give it a whirl and see it for yourself!

Adapting and changing is always a part of business. Nothing is ever static. (Well, I suppose it can be, but you can bet your competitors aren’t!)

As part of improving our communication with everyone, we are adapting to a proven blog technology, versus our previous method. (No, it wasn’t like we were hammering it out with chisel and stone, but hey…)

Anyway, we’ve got some great plans, ideas, and even a surprise or two! Come along, it’s going to be a great ride!