Light Box, Highslide, and other gallery options you recomend?
I ask about this a few months back before I was fully immerced in Drupal. Sadly I haven't made many strides but I am working on sites now. I have basic images for posts figured out but thought it time to explore some gallery solutions. (Past discussion is here: http://drupal.org/node/348767 )
I've been racking my head against the wall because I'd love to use Highslide for images, but the module is not nearly as developed as Lightbox. If you haven't seen Highslideit has a great effect of the image expanding seamlessly out from itself to to full browser window. Lightbox on the other hand throws up a place holder which resizes and loads the picture into it. I've never really liked it.
I digress. I just came across this site and they have an expanding image very similar to Highslide, yet it seems to be lightbox in the code? http://www.ivgstores.com/IVG2/Y/ProductID-90564-.htm
I'm no programmer so can someone confirm that for me? And if the current lightbox2 module is pretty well developed would it include this feature?
Not only does this page have the highslide effect when you click on it but I also like the magnification area that pops up to the side. That is a bonus too. Not to mention the 4 color option images below that all feature the same ability.
I'd also like a "next" or "Previous" option form the expanded image, for gallery pages say. Anybody seen anything like that? Highslide has the ability but not out of the box in Drupal module as to currently funtion it strips out most of the extra features.
Lastly, one of the projects I'm working on is an ubercart store. If I could at least recreate product pages similar to the same sample here http://www.ivgstores.com/IVG2/Y/ProductID-90564-.htm that would be great. If there are any "out of the box" solutions for Drupal to create product pages like this in Ubercart please let me know. I think Ubercart uses Thickbox but I have yet to look at that. If you all have any other gallery systems you recommend please share. The main thing I'm after though is that expanding effect. I have a lot of research to do and appreciate any help I can get!
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That site does not appear to be drupal, and based on the source it seems they are using http://www.magictoolbox.com/magiczoom. There are also several jquery based ones i believe. Since they're javascript based they can be added to drupal images-- but I don't know of any module that prepackages it.
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Thanks WorldFallz. They do
Thanks WorldFallz. They do actually have a module! http://www.magictoolbox.com/magiczoom_drupal/
alas it seems I can't use it for ubercart unless I learn how to program real quick (not happening), though they say you can pay them to do it. Second, the module costs, like highslide, but even more expensive. And even though they have a module it still means some coding to make it work, which my clients wont' be able to do with an average product or post.
That being said it seems the highslide module will be soon make the basic functionality of the zoomed image available as and upload image you can insert into inline text, which my clients will be able to handle (an me too). It will use the newer insert module:
http://drupal.org/node/479310
also
http://drupal.org/project/highslide
I need things prepackaged! I will keep looking at other image viewers too, but I wonder it my investment might be better put to having a developer create my own. I can't possibly begin to appreciate the code they've written for these things, but as more appear perhaps other options will present themselves.
At this point I will probably show this function to my ubercart client and see if they want to invest in it.
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If cost is an issue, there are several free jquery options out there (ie http://chrisiufer.com/loupe/sample.html and http://alexeyenko.net/projects/zooma/ among others) -- it shouldn't take too much skill to add to img tags, but if you really can't figure it out then it's a matter of where you want to spend the money-- on a closed source prepackaged solution or some service to implement one of the free alternatives.
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