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[mikef]

While you can output tables of thumbnails using EtogalThumb, some people find its approach to styling output difficult to work with.
Etogal itself has very limited choices for output.

Cris D has written another snippet that uses the Etogal data but allows you to format tabular displays in probably an easier fashion for most people - see etogal_multigals 1.2

EtoGalThumb has greater flexibility in selecting which images to display, and in building non-table displays, but if you want a table-based display you may find Cris's snippet easier to use.

[bwoodsdesign]

Hi Mike

I have been looking at Etogal as a possible solution for a client who is going to have Etomite as his website CMS.

Here is a link to an example of the gallery I would like to be able to replicate but using Etogal as the gallery control. http://www.andrews-photography.com

The main goals for this client are

a) he wants me to be able to style the galleries as close as possible to their original style (tabled output shown in above page, which uses bg images in cells)

wants to be able to upload images on his own regularly

c) have several different galleries in the same format.

My question to you is,

Is it possible for me to accomplish this? Can the Etogal template be modified to use the same layout as shown in the page above, and if so what would be your suggestions if any, on how I would do this?

I'm not asking for you (or anyone for that matter) to code this for me, just to give me an idea of whether it's possible and any pointers you might have, seeing as you have the most experience in using the snippet, I am coming to you first.

Your feedback is much appreciated I think others would benefit from it as well.

[mikef]

I don't think you can do the gallery pages (eg http://andrews-photography.com/families.php ) with any of the existing etogal family of snippets.

[luislacerda]

bwoodsdesign, on May 21 2007, 06:27 PM, said:

The main goals for this client are

a) he wants me to be able to style the galleries as close as possible to their original style (tabled output shown in above page, which uses bg images in cells)

I use EtoGal and other snippets from the same family to achieve what you can see in http://www.ptlook.com/female-models.html
I've added a few extra fields to the etogal table and slightly modified Cris D.'s snippets to show some of these extra fields.
The white frame around each picture is CSS driven.

One of these additional extra fields categorizes the type of gallery. I am now able to call each given type within the snippet call.

Cheers

[mikef]

the basic layout in the home page is just 'decoration' around the image files, at a quick glance at the html, and should be able to be handled with either etogalthumb or CrisD's snippet. I would expect CrisD's to be easier for most people to use for this purpose, but then I haven't actually tried it, so don't know the limitations of that approach. However, I've only taken a cursory look at the html generated for the page.

There's no problem with etogal handling mutliple galleries - look at any of my sites (in my sig)

The fundamental problem (for the etogal snippets as they currently exist) for the subsidiary galleries is that the thumbnails used are not the same as the image they display when clicked. Additionally, reconfiguring EtoGalGallery to a display format different to that I use, while possible, requires a good knowledge of PHP coding.


PS: Luis, nice site ... would you like to add it to the showcase section?

Edited by mikef, 21 May 2007 - 07:28 PM.

[Cris D.]

mikef, on May 22 2007, 05:22 AM, said:

The fundamental problem (for the etogal snippets as they currently exist) for the subsidiary galleries is that the thumbnails used are not the same as the image they display when clicked.

Both Luis's site's example and my snippet DO zoom in from the snippet thumb =>to the full sized image clicked as displayed in the original "etogal_gallery". I don't know how to randomly represent pics in a gallery so it's not written into the script, therefore make it easy to create a <a href><img src >link to the original picture in the gallery where it originates from.

I have been using this format for a while and have just updated the default etogal_multigals V. 2.3 to include this feature in the default chunk as the default etogal_tpl. I imagine adding a frame "target" call to the link would create the same linked effect as the gallery above or (it looks like you are using java) continue with the java to handle the frame re-directions

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http://www.andrews-photography.com

with the use of a bit of CSS, it would even look similar.

Edited by Cris D., 22 May 2007 - 10:33 AM.

[mikef]

Cris D., on May 22 2007, 11:06 AM, said:

Both Luis's site's example and my snippet DO zoom in from the snippet thumb =>to the full sized image clicked as displayed in the original "etogal_gallery".

No, you misunderstand (I think). On Luis's site the thumbnail is simply a small version of the full size image.
In the galleries ( http://andrews-photography.com/families.php ) on the site that bwoodsdesign wants to emulate, the thumbnails are sometimes cropped versions of the image that appears in the left hand pane (some not at all, some lightly, some heavily). No facility exists in the current etogal for creating selectively cropped thumbnails.

[Cris D.]

Ahh... You have a good eye for detail MikeF. I didn't notice the selective cropping.
You are right!

[bwoodsdesign]

Mike and Cris, thank you both for your input on this Luis... beautiful gallery!

Cris D., on May 22 2007, 08:09 AM, said:

Ahh... You have a good eye for detail MikeF. I didn't notice the selective cropping.
You are right!

Yes, you are both right, guys, but the selective cropping is obviously not going to be retained which I really don't care about.

Since etogal (and the rest of the original snippet) appears it might be able to work with my client's gallery (with some modifications to the javascript as Cris noted--thanks), the last thing the client and I care about is the selective thumbs.

Again, the goals were to be able for him to be able to upload images and also for the style of the gallery to be as close as possible to the original layout shown on the http://www.andrews-photography.com site. I'm sure he will be happy to sacrifice the selective cropping, and just use the thumbs that etogal generates.

edited because of a typo

Edited by bwoodsdesign, 22 May 2007 - 09:15 PM.