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Gare7 is a site for blogs written by me and my friends.
Although the content itself may not be so interesting for you, I have done a fine work customizing Drupal.
- http://www.gare7.org/itapetininga/ - Heavy job with views and theming to create a navegation structure like a residential building.
- http://www.gare7.org/pontodevista/ - Is it Drupal? Yes. I use Drupal in the background as an image uploading tool. The visitor, however, only sees a Simpleviewer interface. (nice photos taken by a friend of mine)
José San Martin
http://gare7.org
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No flash
There are some of us who will not use a flash player for several reasons, so I couldn't see the second one at all. Also, flash is not terribly SEO friendly.
Nancy W.
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NancyDru
Can you be more specific on
Can you be more specific on why you do not have a Flash player installed? - just curious
Well...
I don't want to go into all of them, but one of the biggest reasons is because there are too many advertisers out there who use them to display really obnoxious ads. Circuit City is one of the worst. Without it, I am spared from that.
Nancy W.
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NancyDru
I hate those Flash ads, too.
I hate those Flash ads, too. (and almost any Flash thing) But I do have Flash player installed and I use Firefox's Flashblock extension.
I know it's not SEO friendly but in this very case I don't mind. There are just a dozen pictures and almost no text. But anyway, I'll put a link to the HTML version, too, as soon as possible.
José San Martin
José San Martin
http://www.chuva-inc.com/
Keep everyone happy
I always have it installed but completely understand why some people do not!
I think flash can be used to great effect but an alternative should always be given. for example on my site i've kept my galleries as normal galleries but provided a link to a flashy alternative in the descriptions this way I get the benefit of still getting the images indxed easily by SE's and also give the flash junkies a nice quick and fast method to browse my galleries. Drupal makes this easy for me because once the modules are set up I still only have to add each image once and both options (gallery and flash gallery) are updated.....long live drupal!
Nice job José
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Stuart Mackenzie - rojojam.com
- slow like snail, furry like panda with the roar of a donkey!
- also trying to learn the dark arts of drupal
How
I'd like to hear more about how you do that.
Nancy W.
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NancyDru
pretty simple
ok, not much magic involved and the method is probably complete overkill but for a unskilled drupal wannabe like me it works and was fairly simple =)
1. Install and configure the 'image' module and the included 'image gallery' module.
2. Install and configure the 'flash gallery' module.
3. At this stage you have two galleries as such the one provided by the image gallery module and the one provided by the flash gallery alternative, which serves up the same images but through simpleviewer. All 'gallery' links on my site point to the standard static image gallery. I then modifed the flash_gallery.module very slightly so that the breadcrumbs when viewing the simpleviewer gallery pages take you back to the main/static image gallery view rather than the flash gallery index (from memory there is two lines in the module which set the breadcrumb path with 'fgallery/' I just removed the 'f'.
4. I then just added a link to each gallery description (in the normal static gallery) to the actual simpleviewer page for each section.
Hope this makes some sense. It's quite confusing to explain without using the word 'gallery' 400 times.....anyway, It works for me but I'm the only person adding new sections to the gallery, If you had more people(users) creating sections (not images- thats no problem) each person would need to know enough to add the alternative link in the gallery description. If you need any more info just get in touch with me.
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Stuart Mackenzie - rojojam.com
- slow like snail, furry like panda with the roar of a donkey!
- also trying to learn the dark arts of drupal
Tiny percent of users
I hear what you're saying, but there are now only a tiny percentage of users who don't have at least flash7 installed in their browser (currently flash9). There are ways for to block certain types of annoying flash ads, though personally I simply don't go back to sites with strobing ads - but wouldn't for a second give up my flash plugin as I would lose the ability to interact with flash video/music and other modern engaging content.