Little-Miss Posted February 7, 2009 Posted February 7, 2009 I'm trying to update my mates website. He's an artist so its just pages and pages of pictures. So i had a browse see what i could come up with to make life easier for me. Found this css gallery with a bit of java that creates a new page when the thumbnail is clicked, well thats what i though.... i cant for the life of me get it to work!!! I'm obviously missing something... dont laugh... Free Web Template: Simple Photo Gallery Layout
kmount Posted February 7, 2009 Posted February 7, 2009 Hey, How many pictures are you talking about? It might be worth installing something like Coppermine to manage the "pictures" as "albums" or so, which might look a bit sexier than raw gallery stuff. Alternatively, I have some code (it's for linux though (using transmogrify)...) that takes the pictures, resizes them, creates thumbnails and then generates the kind of tabled box effect that link shows. 1
Little-Miss Posted February 7, 2009 Author Posted February 7, 2009 well the disk he's given me has 250 on...and thats the first disk. The current website has got to have coming up to a 1000... Never thought about some sorta php website. I think its because im used to using my basic webhost instead of his which does support php...
kmount Posted February 7, 2009 Posted February 7, 2009 Coppermine Sample Gallery Here Might be worth a look, especially if you have that many pictures. Alternatively, if it'll save you grief I can batch process all of those and send you back thumbnails & the html to knock up a simple table of x rows by y columns
witch Posted February 8, 2009 Posted February 8, 2009 I'm trying to update my mates website Free Web Template: Simple Photo Gallery Layout Hi I've had a quick look at the photogallery template and have got it going Javascript is fine - didn't need to change anything What you need to do is check where you are storing the images In the first XHTML file from the photogallery template there are two images defined - one for the thumbnail (washing_tn.jpg) and the second (washing.jpg) is the full size image is shown (by the second XHTML page) when you click on the thumbnail This is the thumbnail bit ../graphics/washing_tn.jpg NOTE it forces image resizing (width="100" height="100" ) - so you don't really have to have a seperate thumbnail image if you don't want to Now we need to sort out where you are storing the images on the web server If your html files are in /www/index.html Then washing_tn.jpg should be found at /graphics/washing_tn.jpg So you'll have something like /www/index.html /www/other.html etc /graphics/washing.jpg /graphics/washing_tn.jpg etc See below - I've modified the Div section so that it is NOT using a seperate thumbnail image file ../graphics/washing.jpg Wash Time Checked on Firefox & IE6 - seems OK Hope this helps - wITch partner 1
Little-Miss Posted February 8, 2009 Author Posted February 8, 2009 Hello again! Arent you wonderful! I shall give that a go tomorrow!!!
kmount Posted February 8, 2009 Posted February 8, 2009 I'd still make the thumbnails as with a simple resize in the html it'll still load the full image (bandwidth/size wise). Good advice though.
Little-Miss Posted February 8, 2009 Author Posted February 8, 2009 Yeah will definately do thiumbnails....his pictures are bloody huge! Will give what Mr Witch recommended a go but am still looking into those Galleries...
kmount Posted February 8, 2009 Posted February 8, 2009 Something like Irfanview will do your thumbnails for you and rename them accordingly in a batch mode leaving you to fight with the stuff Mr Witch suggested.
witch Posted February 8, 2009 Posted February 8, 2009 (edited) I'd still make the thumbnails as with a simple resize in the html it'll still load the full image (bandwidth/size wise). Good advice though. If you haven't got too many images I wouldn't bother with the thumbnails as the full-sized image(s) would be downloaded and cached in the browser reay to use on the second page BUT - If you have got a lot of images to present on the first page then thumbnails are probably recommended as the smaller files will help the page load faster - the the usre clicks on the image of interest to get the second page with full sized image wITch partner OOPs didn't spot the last couple of replies Edited February 8, 2009 by witch
kmount Posted February 8, 2009 Posted February 8, 2009 Whilst I agree, 1250 is a lot of images and definitely should be thumbnailed.
imiddleton25 Posted February 8, 2009 Posted February 8, 2009 XML/SWF Slideshow > Gallery SimpleViewer Download I have used both of these very successfully and they are free
mrwITch Posted February 10, 2009 Posted February 10, 2009 Will give what Mr Witch recommended a go but am still looking into those Galleries... Thanks for the name
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