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By doomritual on
Hi,
Migrating to D6 proved to be a right old pain and necessitated waiting on a number of contributed modules to reach maturity. Some are still alphas but what the hell.
This site is just a way for me to display my digitally drawn artwork. I could have used a simple gallery but that would have been dull.
Warning - there is some mild nudity in my paintings.
And here it is:
Comments always welcome.
Modules used:
panels (probably could have achieved the same with views alone)
views
CCK
filefield
imagefield
link
imagecache (and image api)
fckeditor
IMCE
metatags
pathauto
TAC Lite
lightbox2
tokens
zen theme
captcha
Phew - do you guys consider that too many modules or is it fairly typical?
Comments
You can never have too many
You can never have too many modules.
As long as you have the memory to back them up. ;-)
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http://classicvinyl.biz
http://music.classicvinyl.biz
http://association.drupal.org/user/1207
LOL
The site that I'm currently trying to get to D6 has just under 100 contrib modules on it. Most of them in some stage of dev/alpha/beta on D6 and many of them needing outright replacing and migrating of data. So, no, that's not too many. ;)
Michelle
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100 MODULES!
i cant believe a working site 100 modules? is it on a vps? how much Ram do you need for that?
SN sites
Community / social networking sites take a lot of modules. I'm on a VPS, now, but I was running on shared at first. It was noticably slower on shared but functioned. I've got a partial list of the modules here if you're curious.
Michelle
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wow
that sounds extreme. I can't begin to imagine how you can make that work
such a cute site
how did you do the mini-gallery with the filter? great idea.
well it's like this
The images are all CCK node types that make use of the imagefield module. A taxonomy vocabulary with a number of terms is applied to each image ie an image of an alien is given a term of alien within the vocabulary (rocket science it isn't).
Then we rely on the way imagecache, lighbox and views all work seemlessly together. I use imagecache configured to give me a page display and a thumbnail. Then it's simply a case of configuring a view in a block with an exposed filter on the taxonomy. The display field of the view is the imagecache thumbnail in a grid which in turn is just a link to the imagecache page display view that's displayed in lightbox2.
Hope that makes sense.
Help with thumbnail GRID
Can you please describe how you got the thumbnails to show up in a grid? I'm trying to do basically the same thing using the same modules, but my thumbnails always show up in a vertical line. Let me know if you need more info. Thanks!
Steve
It's actually very easy with
It's actually very easy with Views.
Just create a view to display the image field of the node in a block (well it's a block on my site but it could equally be a page). Then under Basic Settings, set the 'items per page to the total number of images you want to display. (6 in my case). then set 'Style' to 'Grid'. This will then give you an option to set the number of columns per row (I selected 2) and this therefore gives me a grid of 6 images in three rows by two columns. All that remains is to display the block.
The images I display at the top of the page in a strip are done exactly the same way. But the settings are 15 nodes per page, grid style block and 15 columns per row.
Hope that makes sense