hello there --
so i am totally new to drupal. I'm trying to create image galleries for a personal art website. i followed a tutorial advising me to set up cck, imagefield, imagecache, views basic and views bonuspack, custom pagers, and thickbox. i've got it all working and via the View: bonus grid view i've got a (poorly styled) very rudimentary wee gallery going... now i'm trying to figure out how to customize the view so i can have subgalleries classified by taxonomy terms. I was going to clone the gallery set up I have now and then try to specify a taxonomy term to sort each of the sub-gallery views. I have an image vocabulary that contains terms like Painting_and_Drawing, Illustration, etc... but I'll be damned if i can figure out how to get the views module to select by those terms. i can only seem to get one gallery where everything is jumbled together. here's what i have:
http://ashley-mcnamara.net/art_gallery
i have a million other questions about theming and styling the view, etc, but i'll post those somewhere else...
thanks for any suggestions!
-ashley
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The Views module doesn't really provide satisfying navigation tools.
Before you concoct something of your own, you may want to get acquainted with a nice navigation paradigm known as "faceted navigation" (aka "faceted search", or "faceted classification"). It has some intimidating name, but it's quite simple and intuitive. See it in action here:
http://orange.sims.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/flamenco.cgi/famuseum/Flamenco
http://flamenco.berkeley.edu/demos.html
But suppose I want to see only drawings? Lumping paintings and drawings together isn't good. And 'illustration' can be either, so it doesn't really belong in the same vocabulary, does it?
You can borrow some classification ideas from Flamenco's, above. You can distinctly see their 'vocabularies' and 'terms'. Or have a look at David Lesieur's "Explora Images" (he's the author of the faceted search module):
http://www.exploraimages.com/en
(How many art pieces do you have?)