| Archive for Downsizer For an ethical approach to consumption |
| jema |
Sometimes I like Joomlahttp://swindonlandscaping.co.uk/drivewaysI'm doing a little website for a landscape gardener who wouldn't know html if it slapped him in the face. He wants nice grids of portfolio images in articles, images that will do "in page" expansion as he has seen that on sites, and it does make sense. I don't want to write all his pages for him. So I have knocked up a little Joomla content plugin. So he can just insert the image in the article and stick {mosgallery} around them: e.g. {mosgallery} image image image.. {/mosgallery} the images have to be called xx_thumb.jpg and have a corresponding full image. But that much he can manage, and the plugin does the rest, transforming the article for display 
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| vegplot |
Nice.
We've developed something similar, although not yet a gallery, using a Resource Library in our CMS. The admin upload images into the resource library adding appropriate meta data, the image can then be used in the CMS simply by referencing its ID. In the HTML/Text editor the some drop down list are populated with resource library items such as media and all admin/content author needs to do is select the file from the list. A placeholder {#res=Image, id=447#} is inserted in the html and is rendered back into an image on demand. If the image isn't at the size required the admin can add an extra parameter {#res=Image, id=447, w=160#} which resizes the image using some rather nifty image optimisation code and saves a copy of this image in a file cache for later use. |
| Nick |
I like it. As a user, it's almost obvious that I can click to enlarge, but not so obvious that I then have to click to shrink. |
| jocorless |
Phoca Gallery can do that for you in Joomla 1.5 - It also has a nice little button that can be added into the editor which opens the gallery up and displays all the images that are there etc |
| vegplot |
In principle the zoom works well, is certainly novel and makes a change from 'light box' image galleries. Easy for the end user as well. |
| jema |
Tweaked a bit more, the post was more about the ease of writing the articles than about the actual gallery system, however that is now cosmetically sussed. |
| Emyr |
Do you really need the font size widget? Most browsers do scaling properly nowadays, and it's a bit of an eyesore. |
| jema |
I figure that on this sort of site the intended audience may be older and hence it may help to have that sort of thing prominent.
On the whole the site is only work in progress, but that feature will stay. |