Please help me settle an argument....new pictures in a gallery, put them on the left or the right?
I'm having an argument with my wife. She's a hobby breeder (please leave the breeding/adopting arguments out of this thread), and I take the weekly pictures of the puppies and put them on the site.
The newest litter arrived last week. So, for the past week, there was only one picture of each pup. I took new pictures today and put them up on the site. For each puppy, there are now two pictures: 1 Week Old and 1 Day Old. So, thinking from a marketing perspective, in the row, I placed the newest picture first, then the oldest. My thinking is that if you're showing these puppies, and stating that they are a certain age, you want that picture (the most recent) first. Then people can cycle through the older pictures.
So, my pictures would look like this:
2 week old pic * 1 week old pic * 1 Day old pic
My wife's argument is that you read from left to right. So she says the older pics should go to the left and the newest to the right. My son sided with her, claiming it's "like a timeline." So they think the pictures should look like this:
1 Day old pic * 1 week old pic * 2 week old pic
I maintain that the "read from left to right" argument is irrelevant in this case, as you don't want a potential customer to have to flip through a bunch of old stuff to get to the newest. She insists I'm thinking too much along the lines of adult paysites. She's called her parents about it, and is now posting on her facebook...lol.
So....should the new pictures go on the left, or should the old ones stay to the left and the newest to the right?
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