I LOVE your module!

Hi Baldy,

Thanks so much for the quick reply! I think that a) sounds terrific! What about a square (horizontal strip?) of 4 or 5 image thumbnails (teasers) on the frontpage underneath the text of the post? That would look really good.

I see where you're coming from in terms of b) and c). I still like the label full size and it would be really nice if visitors could link back to the post (node) instead of hitting the back button in the browser. It would also be great to keep visitors feeling like they're still in your blog... if the full size link sends visitors to another web page with all the css and html, but (blocks in columns could be hidden or not depending on the size of the image admin would like to use as full size).

hmmm... What do you think about adding an option where admin could choose either the label "full size" with the link just suggested or the label "original image" with it's current link... to a webpage where only the original image is displayed, good for downloading?

What do you think? I look very much forward to hearing from you!

Thank you,
Valerie :)

Hi Baldy,

Fantastic! I can't wait to try it out.

Thanks so much,
Valerie :)

Hey!

I just uploaded it, noticed the new configurations in the user interface (nice!) and created a new content type (pblog), uploaded a .tar file full of Christina Ricci pics, and I don't know why, but it didn't work for me. I must be doing something wrong. I got the following error messages (print screens below).

I checked out your blog, and saw the 4 thumbnail teasers in your post and totally agree... it looks really good! I'm running Drupal 6.5. Maybe this is why I had trouble?

Ooh! I don't know how to make it so that there's 5 thumbnail teasers on the frontpage, but that would be great. It would also be brilliant if all the images' thumbnail teasers were visible on the frontpage, but in horizontal rows below the text that's just beneath the main pic. That would really look amazing!!!

Thanks so much for your coding progress... I'll talk to you soon!

Valerie

Hey Baldy,

I just played around with it, and instead of uploading a .tar, I uploaded a .zip. I'm working on a MAC, and automatically thought that the zip mean't tar LOL So, it works well :) It uploaded all 9 pics and made the thumbs, and the medium size images... with the kickass gallery. I'll upload the screenshot for your view.

And... it had all 9 thumbs in the teaser! So cool. I hope you have a fantastic day tomorrow and I look forward to hearing from you about future tweaks.

Thanks,
Valerie

Hi again,

This is my last comment... I swear :P I didn't realize that if you don't publish the post, working in draft mode, that it doesn't show you what the frontpage view is. So, when I published it, I saw that the 2x2 cube was next to the main image of the post, which was good. But, it was pushing the righthandside columns out since now, the image was too wide (original post image plus the cube next to it). So, I worked on it this weekend, and tweaked the code a bit. It now does what I want, and the thumbnails are underneath the post text.

But, I had to manually add in the thumbnails myself, but it didn't take long (copy and paste the imgurl for one thumbnail and then repeat... and quickly change each pic's number @ the end for each one of the copied thumbnails in the rich-text editor TinyMCE). I also had to manually scale the images myself in ImageReady. Not ideal, but it only takes 2 mins.

I've also made it so that when you click on the main image in the gallery, it now loads the fullsize image inside the context of the blog (with css and html)... instead of a path to the .jpg. and nothing else.

So, in short, I'm thrilled... the gallery and thumbnails are done and it looks phenomenal!

Thanks so much for everything.
Valerie :)