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My try on it..6 posts
My try on it..
This is a very basic setup, more photos will be added later, this site is used for testing purposes only. Hope you like it, critics and ideas are very welcome
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I think your gallery looks great! You have kept it simple, and you have nice content(and not too much of it). I do have a few comments:
# I see you have removed the maincontrols, which I think is good. It cleans up the interface, and isn't really required in many cases. The only thing I slightly miss, is knowing the amount of thumbnails pages when I click a menu item. I think perhaps there will be a new option for this in the next release - Some text/title/pagenumber for thumbnails page.
# I like your custom orange color. Perhaps you should use it globally? I see some places the defualt blue is left on titles, and EXIF. You can edit that in your CSS file of course.
# When rolling over an image, EXIF data displays on the side. It seems you have set the background to scale 100% height. I think it should be set back to default so that the background only covers the actual text content and is kept at a minimal.
# You are probably not finished yet, but I noticed your "people" folder was empty. Since you have disabled image amount, I clicked on it and was wondering why it wouldn't load ...
# Last thing, which is very biased to my personal opinion. It would perhaps look nice if you used even bigger thumbnails? Like 160x120 or something? I think big thumbnails look nice especially on galleries with minimum content and with good photos.
Congratulations on your work!
# I see you have removed the maincontrols, which I think is good. It cleans up the interface, and isn't really required in many cases. The only thing I slightly miss, is knowing the amount of thumbnails pages when I click a menu item. I think perhaps there will be a new option for this in the next release - Some text/title/pagenumber for thumbnails page.
# I like your custom orange color. Perhaps you should use it globally? I see some places the defualt blue is left on titles, and EXIF. You can edit that in your CSS file of course.
# When rolling over an image, EXIF data displays on the side. It seems you have set the background to scale 100% height. I think it should be set back to default so that the background only covers the actual text content and is kept at a minimal.
# You are probably not finished yet, but I noticed your "people" folder was empty. Since you have disabled image amount, I clicked on it and was wondering why it wouldn't load ...
# Last thing, which is very biased to my personal opinion. It would perhaps look nice if you used even bigger thumbnails? Like 160x120 or something? I think big thumbnails look nice especially on galleries with minimum content and with good photos.
Congratulations on your work!
Thanks for your kind words and good ideas, Karl..
You were actually adressing a few issues i have been trying to solve. I have tried to make thumbnails bigger, but without success.. They either overlap or get funny looking in some way, but don't get any larger. And the file counter in main menu - I really want that for the image folders, but it also showed for my textpages and that looked awful.. Any ideas on this ?
You were actually adressing a few issues i have been trying to solve. I have tried to make thumbnails bigger, but without success.. They either overlap or get funny looking in some way, but don't get any larger. And the file counter in main menu - I really want that for the image folders, but it also showed for my textpages and that looked awful.. Any ideas on this ?
regarding thumbnails, you must make sure of a few things to avoid complications. Try this procedure:
1. Goto config, change your thumbnails resize method(for example 160x120 croptobox). save.
2. Goto "manage", select a folder. Then select "recreate thumbnails in this folder" or "recreate thumbnails in all folders".
3. Now the important phase which most likely cluttered your attempt. Make sure to click "Clear Cache" in the admin main menu. That will make sure folderdata is recreated based on the size of your new thumbnails. Also, you may need to clear cache in your browser, so your browser doesn't load old thumbnails into new settings.
This should work! If not, get back to me ...
Regarding the textpages, I see your problem! I will have this fixed in the next release, so just hang on until then. If you want to fix it immediately, you could create a folder in the root of your gallery called "html" and put your images there instead(That would require editing the path in your textpage html also)
1. Goto config, change your thumbnails resize method(for example 160x120 croptobox). save.
2. Goto "manage", select a folder. Then select "recreate thumbnails in this folder" or "recreate thumbnails in all folders".
3. Now the important phase which most likely cluttered your attempt. Make sure to click "Clear Cache" in the admin main menu. That will make sure folderdata is recreated based on the size of your new thumbnails. Also, you may need to clear cache in your browser, so your browser doesn't load old thumbnails into new settings.
This should work! If not, get back to me ...
Regarding the textpages, I see your problem! I will have this fixed in the next release, so just hang on until then. If you want to fix it immediately, you could create a folder in the root of your gallery called "html" and put your images there instead(That would require editing the path in your textpage html also)
Thanks Karl, it worked like a charm this time, i guess I forgot to clear the cache last time.. 
One other thing, is it possible to have the next page arrows visible at all times when showing the thumbs page ? It would be easier to see that there are more than one page..
*Edit* I turned of autohide in the controls config, but then it shows the arrows on all pages, even if it's only one page..
One other thing, is it possible to have the next page arrows visible at all times when showing the thumbs page ? It would be easier to see that there are more than one page.. *Edit* I turned of autohide in the controls config, but then it shows the arrows on all pages, even if it's only one page..
I am going to have to look into this ...glennybig wrote:Thanks Karl, it worked like a charm this time, i guess I forgot to clear the cache last time..
*Edit* I turned of autohide in the controls config, but then it shows the arrows on all pages, even if it's only one page..