The Joomla image gallery site, looks like shit at the moment. I had a decent version of it up and running but was unhappy with the design so am in the process of re-working it and testing some Javascript. One of the problems with Joomla is you can only one site running so at the moment, so so you are always viewing the most recent version of the site. At the moment it looks like there's been no progress but that's only because I'm reworking an old template. To be brutally honest I'm a bit fed up with it, the last few days have felt like it's going backwards. I also want use some of the Javascript techniques I've learnt to put together a web page for the Leeds Art College HND show, I like the ideas of using the Lightbox plug in to create a simple/gallery portfolio to go alongside the slide show I'm creating for the show.
I should be able to up-load the old templates and grab some screenshots from there. I've also got a basic HTML/CSS/Javascript layout that will illustrate some of my designs.
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Monday, April 16, 2007
Updates
Done a lot of work on the CSS, HTML design and Javascript of the image gallery site. Various template layout's are here Image Gallery Templates. I'll upload some CSS/HTML links tomorrow.
At the moment I've the stripped the content of the site write back, eventually I want a minimalist gallery along the lines of this image
Simple text, whitewashed "gallery" with a shadow effect.
I've also been using the scriptalicous Javascript library to add drag and drop effects. I've also installed the Lightbox2 plugin. All this can be seen on the working version of the image gallery Hopefully the CSS will decide it wants to work over the next few days.
I've installed the Flickr4J plugin which is a great tool for pulling in images from Flickr. I'm looking at some Flickr hacks that may be able to make better use of this feature, as a way of searching and finding images. I'm also considering if this is a way of replacing the Gallery section or maybe using the Flickr plugin as a way of showing development and progression of ideas. Not entirely show how that is going to work yet.
At the moment I've the stripped the content of the site write back, eventually I want a minimalist gallery along the lines of this image
Simple text, whitewashed "gallery" with a shadow effect.I've also been using the scriptalicous Javascript library to add drag and drop effects. I've also installed the Lightbox2 plugin. All this can be seen on the working version of the image gallery Hopefully the CSS will decide it wants to work over the next few days.
I've installed the Flickr4J plugin which is a great tool for pulling in images from Flickr. I'm looking at some Flickr hacks that may be able to make better use of this feature, as a way of searching and finding images. I'm also considering if this is a way of replacing the Gallery section or maybe using the Flickr plugin as a way of showing development and progression of ideas. Not entirely show how that is going to work yet.
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