By dreamYu on

hi drupal community!

when i upload image and promote it to frontpage, it only displays the small thumbnail pic of the image - how can I change this behavior so that it shows the preview image, centered?

here's an example: http://www.intothespirit.com

thank you very much for any hints.

dreamYu

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dman commented

... because items promoted to the front page display as 'teasers'

... and the 'teaser' of an image is its thumbnail.

Make sense?

But ... to change that behaviour, I dunno. Probably the teaser module ... but no, the image teaser is generated by the image module itself.
Looking at the image_view() function which does this, I can't see how it would do what you want.
Either investigate one of the other Gallery modules which may do it for you, or set the size of your 'thumbnails' really big for a quick - fix.

http://www.coders.co.nz/

.dan. is the New Zealand Drupal Developer working on Government Web Standards

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US421 commented

set the size of your 'thumbnails' really big for a quick - fix.

I tried this and it worked really well, I did have to delete the already generated thumbnail and preview images to force the generation of new images.

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dman commented

It's not the greatest answer, as you now don't have real thumbnails to show up in bulk listings.
That may or may not be a problem for you. It'll always be full-size from now on.

But whatever works..

http://www.coders.co.nz/

.dan. is the New Zealand Drupal Developer working on Government Web Standards

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dreamYu commented

thanks for your repliies guys, i'm happy to find some kind of fix for this - even if it isn't the most elegant way ;)

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dreamYu commented

I would really like to know if anyone got a solution for this. Up to now, an image which gets promoted to front page creates a rather ugly post.

You can see it on the page I mentioned above.

Another idea: is it possible to make the text float around the pic? What would I have to do? Hmm, I would really need some help.

The big-thumbnail-approach to this matter makes the display of a list of thumbnails in the image gallery useless I guess...

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US421 commented

Perhaps my needs were a bit simpler, I am very happy with my ever so slightly larger thumbnails on the front page, sidebar and image gallery. I want the wrapped test as well, and I think I can do it. When I have time to work on it and if I am good as I think I am I will post back here.

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dreamYu commented

Thank you, I'm happy for every bit of information you post here.

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dreamYu commented

hmm I'm really desperate in this one. How do you manage to get a clean and nice looking post when you promote an image (from the image gallery) to front page?

The default way is that it creates

title,
thumbnail (according to the size configured), and then the
text below.

The way I see it, this behaviour is only good if you create *really* large thumbnails, because currently the small thumbnail (left-aligned) just looks ugly because there's too much free space.

The big thumbnails are a major drawback because they will screw the display of the image gallery.

How do you handle this one?