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By BKWill on
Hello, I want to begin by thanking everyone who has taken the time to help learn the ropes with Drupal. I'm very pleased with the community and the help that I have received. I'm on my final task which is to create a decent photo album. I know that drupal can do this but there are three things I'm trying to do that I can't seem to figure out on my own:
1.) How can I configure my taxonomy so that when a user chooses a menu item named "Photo Albums" from the menu they see a master list of all the albums right away. Apparently Drupal creates an album for the category title, as well as, the vocabulary you assign. So upon navigating to the photo albums I get a message that says there are no posts, and then beneath that it lists the albums.
I really love the way this site is set up: http://www.mlkendrick.com/taxonomy_menu/10
2.) I would absolutly LOVE to know how to get uniformed thumbnails, and by clicking thumbnail have it open a pop-up window with a larger image displayed inside. ( I do know that this takes Java Script, but how do I incorporate that inside of the module?)
Okay so that is asking a lot huh?
I'm down to work with someone here on this, I'd love some insight into the right procedure, or if you have a solution to share your approach.
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I agree. That's a great
I agree. That's a great example of image.module in action. If only it came out of the box that nice. To configure your taxonomy the way his is, I think you need to enable the menu module and then you can pretty much create your own navigation structure based on the taxonomy.
I'd love to use jscript option for image.module, too. Anyone know how to get this working? Or, mlkendrick, want to make a hack contribution?
- matthew | nautis.com
I take that back. I checked
I take that back. I checked out the source code. It looks like it's hard coded into the page. It doesn't look like a hacked image.module after all. This would actually be pretty easy to do but it's not a very dynamic or elegent solution to the problem.
- matthew | nautis.com
may i know the name of the
may i know the name of the site theme?
I'm using Kubrick
I'm using the Kubrick theme myself, although the site example above looks like it's using Box Grey, or Chamelion. I checked his CSS and it's points towards a custom sheet and not towards a theme CSS, so I am not positive on the theme being used.
That's neat as heck. I
That's neat as heck. I suspect that the jscript could be done with a theme. Well, I'm off to search google jscript popup and see if there are any css popup equivelents.
-sp
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-Steven Peck
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how's the tumbnail??
http://www.mlkendrick.com/taxonomy_menu/10
the thumbnail image is created manually? or by module?
is there any image module can create thumbnail automatically?
The image module creates the
The image module creates the thumbnail automatically and does the gallery display. His looks like a very well done theme with the javascript popup in it.
-sp
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Test site...always start with a test site.
-Steven Peck
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Test site, always start with a test site.
Drupal Best Practices Guide
Thumbnails
The thumbnails on the site being discussed were not created by any code in Drupal. The current image module makes thumbnails by scaling images and preserving their aspect ratio. That means they keep the shape of the image (rectangular in most cases). His thumbnails are all square, which is what makes them look so nice. It is hard to write an algorithm that works well to automatically create a square thumbnail from a rectangular image (well, not THAT hard), so he most likely did them manually.
For being such a nice looking site, there isn't a whole lot of content yet. Hope it is successful for him.
- Robert Douglass
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not image.module or other known module
I don't think these galleries are created by any image module in drupal. the urls to the images look totally foreign. The gallery is a node, and the body of that node is a hunk of HTML referencing various images. I don't know of any drupal gallery module which works like that.
You Are Right
I took another look at the code and noticed the same thing that the links do look foreign. It would appear that we created it by hand, and dumped the the whole thing inside a node. Nice observation Moshe.
square thumbnails
There is a feature request pending with a patch to the image.module which would provide for square thumbnails. Head over to the feature request and put in your two cents on the patch. I am not sure if this will be available for 4.6 or not.
URL was taken down by spammers
The URL you referenced is reporting that they were spoofed as a source of email spam. The entire site seems to be dedicated to vengeance against the abusers. Another good thing is ruined.