Workflow - advice sought
On pages such as http://www.aprilroseturner.com/Cove the client has asked me to add a number of thumbnails which then link to full size images to show close-up detail of the painting.
I have looked at zoomify, magnify and fancy zoom and will use one of these.
However, my issue is that the site already has many paintings, all of which are image nodes, and uses image galleries.
I guess I could change these image nodes to CCK nodes and add thumbnails to CCK. How would I do this and would I necessarliy lose image gallery functionality?
The other alternative I have thought is to allow the site administrator to add files (the full size images) to the existing image nodes and then implement a block on the pages in which I produce the thumbnails with the code necessary to invoke the required zoom/magnify function.
Any thoughts or comments on these approaches or alternatives are welcome
TIA
Terry
Imagecache
Hi,
If you want automatic creation of different sized images, and the ability to link from the thumbnail to the full image, then Imagecache - http://drupal.org/project/imagecache - is probably the way to go. You can even combine it with ImageField and ImageField Crop to allow custom cropping of the thumbnail.
However, this does mean moving over to a CCK / FileField / ImageField / ImageCache setup, which might seem a lot to deal with, but works very well. And, although you don't get built in galleries, like with the Image module, you can use Views to build galleries based on whatever criteria you want. It probably takes a little longer to setup than with the Image module, but is a lot more flexible in the long run, I think.