page illustrations
I have a large community based information based project which features iniline illustrations in the pages in the style of a workshop manual. I need to both import existing HTML pages and also create new pages easily. I have no problem in plain old HTML but it seems almost impossible in Drupal!
I have tried various modules such as img_assist, and upload_image but still can't seem to post an image within the text.
I then tried the import_html module but cannot get HTMLTidy to work in Xampp on my windows machine, does anyone know how to do this. The import_html module may be just what I need but I am now a little sceptical as to whether Drupal can display a number of images within a page.
I have also installed the wghtml as it claimed to be able to show static HTML pages within Drupal but there is no obvious way to do so, the docs just mentions browsing to the file concerned, but how, er... with what, where???
The only way I have managed so far is to upload images and then hard code them, the uploaded images all end up in the same folder which is a pretty useless idea, I'm talking about over a thousand pages to import so far and this is only about ten percent of the final site. This would mean thousands of images all in one folder!
Am I just using the wrong CMS or have CMS developers forgotten about real content? I have designed my own theme template and managed to configure everything else so far and this is very frustrating indeed!
Can anyone help?
Image and img_assist
If you have tried image module and img_assist module and still can't make the images appear inline, try using the filter and choosing left or right instead of none or center. I create pages and have my users (who are not very code-savvy) add images, upload images, etc. using this combination, and they do it well. It takes a little training on my part to make sure things are done "right", but that's a small price to pay for something so important.
As far as all images in one folder - is there a reason you feel they need to be subdivided into FOLDERS? I use the taxonomy and galleries to separate my images into subsections that are very easy to access. When I first started using image module I thought the same thing... "thousands of pictures, how will I ever be able to weed through them all?" The problem was that I had a predefined concept of how files should be maintained and stored, when there was an incredibly powerful and much more efficient means of tagging, organizing, and retrieving images built into Drupal.
No, I am not a CMS developer, but I'm glad Drupal has the developers it has to help people like me think outside the box and create better sites, content, and usability for our end-users.