New photography showcase

Posted by Eric Scouten on May 4, 2005 at 5:36am

I'm very excited to announce my new Drupal-powered photography showcase, www.ericscouten.com. This site makes heavy use of image.module (surprise! -- and thanks James Walker for the new version!), webform.module, a customized version of comment.module, and a customized postcard.module (see my sandbox in Drupal's CVS). (The customization to comment.module is that users can send comments but not view them.) Finally, I wrote a small custom module to link my site with Pictopia's Print This Picture program, which allows me to sell prints directly from the web site.

I'm very pleased with the consistent look and feel of the site. I would not have been able to accomplish this without building on the great work that all of you in the Drupal community have done. Thank you.

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I can't believe that's Drupal.

Posted by Zach Harkey on May 4, 2005 at 6:11am

That is probably the best looking photography showcase I have ever seen anyone do in Drupal. Beautiful photos too -- excellent work. I can't believe how seamless the integration with pictopia is. For the love of god man, release that module!

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Thanks!

Posted by Eric Scouten on May 4, 2005 at 6:56am

Thanks for the kind words!

The Pictopia module has a bit of code that's probably not GPL'able. If you do join the PTP program, please drop me a note via my contact page and I'll be glad to share it with you.

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Wow

Posted by Boris Mann on May 4, 2005 at 6:31am

Fantastic work, Eric. Very clean look, everything just flows.

sweet

Posted by sepeck on May 4, 2005 at 6:44am

That is very nice.

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very nice site

Posted by erima on May 4, 2005 at 7:13am

i saw this a few weeks ago and forgot your name. sort of wondered if i was totally wrong about it being a drupal site... :) but it is and a very nice one at that. i think the main thing here for others (and myself) to take note of is the simplicity that is presented that lets the images stand on their own. something that is not often done due to drupal's bell's and whistles.

Wow! A BIG WOW

Posted by kbahey on May 4, 2005 at 1:34pm

Congratulations Eric.

Just look at the main gallery page here http://www.ericscouten.com/gallery
Looks VERY distinctive.

Is that using Menalto Gallery, Drupal's image, or a custom thing?
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Custom thing

Posted by Eric Scouten on May 4, 2005 at 4:15pm

This particular page is a taxonomy_menu page (see bottom three listings). The main body of the page is generated by the theme (yes, that's a hack) using a single image and image maps for the links.

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The overall gallery is using

Posted by Eric Scouten on May 4, 2005 at 8:40pm

The overall gallery is using image.module. I'm not using the Menalto code at all.

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really nice site. Congrats

Posted by pamphile on May 4, 2005 at 5:14pm

really nice site. Congrats

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Where'd you get the image "next"/"Previous" links

Posted by jamida on May 5, 2005 at 3:19pm

Great site... I'm a beginner to Drupal. I'd like to have "next" "previous" links in my picture galleries. How did you do yours? I also like the "crawl"... the little boxes showing where you are in the sequence.

Is that (next/previous and/or the crawl) a side-effect of the taxonomy? Is that custom code you did?

Note, I am currently exploring both the native image module support as well as the album.module. While I've experimented with "gallery" the current drupal module is for gallery-v2 which is too new for my needs.

Thanks and fantastic looking site!

Mike

Warpbar module

Posted by Eric Scouten on May 6, 2005 at 12:52am

The crawl is what I call the "warp bar." When I get a bit more time to clean it up and document it, etc., I'll post it to my sandbox or modules contrib. In the meantime, if you're interested and don't mind some hacks, I'll be happy to share it "as is" privately.

The most significant hack in the warpbar module is that it relies on some data that the theme feeds it for which term was last requested. Some images are cross-listed in multiple galleries (terms), but I don't want to suddenly shift the listing from one term to another because you happened to find one of those "daily doubles." So the theme sets a "last term" session variable whenever you visit one of the gallery summary pages (taxonomy_menu pages) and warpbar favors that term if multiple terms are available for a given image. Warpbar also generates the "also filed under:" text that's shown at the bottom of the page, which lists all other terms.

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