Chapter 7. BUILDING THE PAGENAVIGATOR CLASS
When there are a large number of images in a directory, it's not desirable to display all of them on one web page because doing so will probably create a very large and long page. Web pages should be of reasonable length and should not take too long to download. Rather than dumping all your images onto one page, use a page navigator to step through them in an orderly fashion. This chapter will take on the task of creating a navigator class; Chapter 8 will use this class in conjunction with the DirectoryItems class.
Before you can create a page navigator, you need to determine how it should behave. Keep its design flexible and make sure that its appearance is easily configurable so that it can blend ...
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