forbesconrad.com is my own online photography portfolio.I’m an editorial photographer based in Guangzhou, China.
I've found it rather hard to come up with a way of displaying images that is attractive, fast, navigable and visible to search engines. Most prepackaged flash galleries are horrendously slow to load and have search issues, while most html-based solutions have poor navigation or inefficient image loading.
I think I've managed to scrape together an attractive, simple solution using Drupal and a handful of contrib modules.
The gallery pages use the Galleria viewer with Imagefield and Imagecache modules. It's very easy to add, remove and sort photos, which I love. The built-in caption and alt-text handling is cool too.
The home page sports a simple Views Rotator setup.
Other odd pages make use of Views with Imagefield, Imagecache, Insert and Image Resize Filter handling inline photographs (a very handy combination).
The theme uses Zen nineSixty (960 Grid system), which works, but I think I’ll use Basic in the future.
Any technical or visual suggestions you may have are more than welcome.
A big thank you to all the Drupal contributors for making such an effective set of tools.
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The style looks clean enough
The style looks clean enough for me.
I used to use Galleria to make a photography site for Noogen. Glad to see more photographers choose Drupal to work with.
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Nice work
Nice work on Noogen's site, tuthanh. How much work was it to get the thumbnails arranged on the side like that? Is that all in the CSS?
For anyone who might want a little more detail on what I used on my site, I've written a short article on how to assemble a simple Drupal photography website.
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I really like the look of this, and although I can get the views rotator working I'm not having much luck with the Galleria part. From what I read it should work without JCarousel, but does it.
Again, I find that documentation lacking in some of these modules and for newbies we are feeling very left behind and feel very inadequate in trying to get these things to work. There is so much that has gone on before that we will never see.
Sorry if this seems like sour grapes, but it is a struggle to grasp some of the concepts when we are told it is so simple.
No not expecting to learn things overnight, but improved documentation would help greatly.
Galleria
Yes, Galleria works without jCarousel. That's the way it's set up on forbesconrad.com. Getting Galleria to work properly with jCarousel is actually quite a bit more involved than a straight Galleria implementation...
If you're getting hung up with Galleria at a particular point, I might be able to help. I've used it on two different websites without any fundamental issues, though, so I can't offer any advise without specifics.
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I have now got the galleria to work, but am now having problems with the CSS. Have reasonable understanding of CSS, but find dealing with images and CSS in Drupal a bit of a nightmare.
I found I could center the images of both the main image and the thumbs by using
.galleria_wrapper , .galleria-nav {
text-align: center;
}
but I can't seem to center the rotator image which is done using views
Using the changeme theme as find that fairly easy to adjust to suit.
Centering Views Rotator
For the rotator class on the front page I use
{
width: [image width];
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}
I don't know if it's the best solution but it does seem to work.
Thanks, it does work.
Thanks, it does work.
I need a hand ????
How/where to extract galleria viewer ? how to set this up ?
Documentation is a bit too technical for me.
Thanks
Views rotator does not work for me either :(
share some steps ???
thanks
rotator works now
thanks