By gav240z on

Hi Everyone,
So I've been playing with a structure for my articles on my website.

Here is an example:
http://www.viczcar.com/member-rides/guy-millers-white-1970-datsun-240z

Basically it uses CCK and has ImageField with the values in the table completed by text fields.

What I'm looking to achieve is something along the lines of this:

Here is the article:
http://www.vetteweb.com/features/vemp_0612_1969_big_block_corvette/index...

Here is the gallery:
http://www.vetteweb.com/features/vemp_0612_1969_big_block_corvette/photo...

Notes:
1. The breadcrumb trail is consistent with the article
2. The images appear in the article scattered throughout, but clicking them takes you to the larger version in the articles gallery
3. The article spans multiple pages (equivelent of Drupal book nodes?)
4. The gallery has a reference back to the original article and the original article has a reference to the images.
5. The article also has a block showing a group of images from the gallery. I assume you could achieve something similar with views relatively easily.

This Lullabot Articles are great:
http://www.lullabot.com/articles/photo-galleries-views-attach

But its left me wondering how exactly I can replicate the above site.

I'm thinking.

1. Create an Article node type
2. Create a photo album node type
3. Use node reference URL and Views Attach to add the photo album and its images to the Article node type

Problems
1. Breadcrumb consistency
2. Creating the block of images
3. Using the images in the article body (filefield_inlineimages?) http://mustardseedmedia.com/podcast/episode29
4. Is it worth having a node for each image?

As you can see I'm a little confused, so perhaps someone can help by explaining how they would approach the above problem?

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