Hi Scott, I really like new PUG style. So far my own PHP programming/design skills have been not very good. Should try that jAlbum for my personal web site.
Gasha Scott Loveless wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>I like the new format, Scott. Before each picture had to be opened and >>closed individually, as a separate web page, which was pain. Now between >>arrows >>and index it is much easier to see them all. > > > Before my ego gets too big, I thought I'd fill you in on how it's put > together. > > The form is javascript. It bundles your photo and the fields into a > nicely formatted little email message and sends it to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] I basically drag the photo into jAlbum and then > copy the text over. Each entry requires a little manual editing of the > text. > > I use a jAlbum template called Chameleon, tweaked a bit to meet our > needs. There is at least one other PDMLer using jAlbum. It's free and > very similar to Breeze Browser. Breeze Browser is more flexible and has > more options, but the latest version of jAlbum fixed some formatting > problems I was having, so I'm satisfied with it at this point. If you > compare this month's PUG to the last few, you'll see that I was able to > separate the photo title from the camera info and description simply > with <P> tags. This wasn't possible before with the Chameleon template. > (If it was, I wasn't smart enough to figure it out.) The templates > that allowed standard HTML tags looked horrible, IMHO. > > I spent a lot of time exploring alternates to the Chameleon template for > the October PUG, thinking I had something that would work, only to find > out that something like navigation sucked, or image resizing didn't work > quite right. Once I realized that the latest version of jAlbum did what > I wanted, it really only took about 3 hours to put the PUG together. > > Navigation. You have three options for navigating the photos. There > are left and right arrow buttons at the top. Thumbnails of the last few > and next few photos are on the left and right of the current slide. If > you hover your mouse over the slide you'll notice that it's divided into > three sections - previous photo, index, and next photo. Opening the > slides in the same window as the index pages is an option I really like. > I personally despise links that force a new tab or window. The old > PUG style wasn't too bad, though. Once you clicked a thumbnail, and the > new window opened, you could use the navigation buttons from there. I > just like to keep everything in the same window, and no one has > complained about it. > > I currently have one submission for the November PUG. And it's not > themed. Get on it. Otherwise, Carrot Top impersonations will follow. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
