thumbnail gallery

[peekaboo]

what's the recommended way to create a picture gallery with thumbnails?
do i have to resize every picture (have a smaller version of it) and post that on a page and link that to another page containing the large version or what? sounds a little bit like hard work.

(i use dreamweaver).

[doctorgonzo]

Yes, that's how it works. If you don't resize the file, instead just resizing it's display through HTML tags, you destroy the whole point of a thumbnail.

Irfranview can make thumbnails for large batches of image files automatically, that's what I have used.

[mairving]

One way is Gallery
Another is Coppermine

Both will create thumbnails when you upload your pictures and create thumbnails for you. I'm not sure on Coppermine but Gallery even has an java exe that will allow you to upload a batch of pictures.

Plenty of other galleries that offer similar functionality but those are the best.

[peekaboo]

thanks guys.

[blue60007]

You should be able to do batch uploads in Coppermine. You need to have a server with PHP and MySql (at least with Coppermine, not sure what Gallery needs) and I think you need "ImageMagick" to resize images from the original, on the server. I'm sure you could still manually do that too.

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Dreamweaver actually has this feature built in to do this:

http://www.adobe.com/support/dreamwe...eb_photo3.html

[peekaboo]

now you're talking...

thanks.

[mairving]

Originally Posted by blue60007 You should be able to do batch uploads in Coppermine. You need to have a server with PHP and MySql (at least with Coppermine, not sure what Gallery needs) and I think you need "ImageMagick" to resize images from the original, on the server. I'm sure you could still manually do that too.

Gallery needs the same. It can use ImageMagick or the GD library or NetPBM.

[mysticm]

Originally Posted by mairving One way is Gallery Another is Coppermine Both will create thumbnails when you upload your pictures and create thumbnails for you. I'm not sure on Coppermine but Gallery even has an java exe that will allow you to upload a batch of pictures. Plenty of other galleries that offer similar functionality but those are the best.

I have downloaded Gallery, but it is in php format I think (if I am not mistaken). Anyways how to implement the Gallery software in Frontpage 2003 as HTML? I havn't really took a look yet at the Gallery software yet, just downloaded it recently.

[mysticm]

What I really want to do is upload really fast like 100-200 images on one page as thumbnails. And when soemone clicks on an image it opens in a new window as a larger image. Something like that. Can Gallery do that in Frontpage? How does it work? I want to be able to upload photos fast since I have a lot of photos I don't want to do it manually one by one, it will take me till Christmas to finish.

[hobey19]

not sure about the whole frontpage integration thing - you can just upload and install gallery on your server.

as far as uploads: http://gallery.menalto.com/wiki/Gallery_Remote

craig

[mairving]

Originally Posted by mysticm What I really want to do is upload really fast like 100-200 images on one page as thumbnails. And when soemone clicks on an image it opens in a new window as a larger image. Something like that. Can Gallery do that in Frontpage? How does it work? I want to be able to upload photos fast since I have a lot of photos I don't want to do it manually one by one, it will take me till Christmas to finish.

Gallery can't do that in Frontpage. FP will create thumbnails but it ain't pretty. It doesn't actually create a thumbnail, it just resizes the current image. So if you have an image that is 640x480px and 200Kb in size, your resized image may be 100x75px but your image size will still be the 200kb. Takes quite awhile to load that page!

What Gallery does is really just take all of the work out of things. You can build a template in FP and then apply that template to your Gallery Site. There are quite a bit of restrictions and you would need to alter some of files by hand though.

[blue60007]

Really, the only way to do something like you want to do in Frontpage itself is actually creating thumbnails yourself in an image editing app and put the images in Frontpage and link to the large images just like any image.

If you have a decent number of photos, something like Gallery or Coppermine would be the best choice because all you have to do is upload (batch uploads are possible) the originals and it will resize the images. You can create categories and then send those images to whatever category you want and organize them.

Like mairving said you would have to create a template in FP and then edit in the appropriate Gallery/CP stuff. I have done that with Coppermine before, it does take a few steps, but it's not as complex as doing that with something like PhpBB (which does take some time).

[mjatas]

I want to be able to embed Gallery into my site. For example I have my site with logo and then below (top) the menu so The gallery I would like to have embeded so it comes up with the site below the logo and menu like another frame, but embed it into frontpage. Understand?

[rspassey]

If you are hosting your images with photobucket, or something of the like, they already display your images as thumbnails and you have to click on them to view the full size image. You can right click > properties the url for the thumbnails and use that as the image source. Then, when you click on it, you can have the full size image display in a new window or frame, or something.

Using this, I produced something EXTREMELY simple in a few minutes, which can be seen here, for an example.
http://www.freewebs.com/passeyfamily/home.html
or this
http://www.freewebs.com/passeyfamily/leftframe.html
Note that a little more time and effort can produce really nice galleries, especially if you use an editor or gallery creator.

[mairving]

Originally Posted by mjatas I want to be able to embed Gallery into my site. For example I have my site with logo and then below (top) the menu so The gallery I would like to have embeded so it comes up with the site below the logo and menu like another frame, but embed it into frontpage. Understand?

That is really the old school way of doing things particularly with frames. Front page creates a page every time. Well that is just plain silly to create a whole new page every time. This is like building a new house every time you want to hang a picture on the wall. Build a template, hook it up to a CMS, add a picture gallery, chat or forum and you want to change every page on the site. No matter when you add content, pictures, etc., the look will be the same...until you get tired of the look and want to redo it.

[heymrdj]

I just use the gallery system in Mkportal on my site ( a CMS). Mkportal can even integrate with Coppermine instead if you would rather use that. Anyways that is the simple way. Just upload and add. It autimatically makes a thumbnail and gives a link for a bigger image. Heck even allows you to give a description and author of the pic if you want it. Plus with the MKportal CMS, it runs my downloads section, forum, shoutbox, chat system, blogs, news, and other things. Many of which (such as news) update themselves daily by running either a purpose built MySQL update system (such as for anime news network) or an XML RSS auto update for tech news. This means I never have to spend two hours everyday updating content by hand. With a CMS, the sky is the limit. With ever increasing number of mods, skins, and hacks, its all I ever use anymore really. Especially for the projects I run where content may have to be updated 15 times a day.

[peekaboo]

i used the dreamweaver built in option and it's better than nothing but not much.
it built a .htm (instead of html) for some reason. i couldn't copy the gallery to another page because every photopage is linked back to original .htm page (annoyingly named "index.htm"). i guess the only way to get around this is not having it automatically create a "back, home, next" on every photopage (which would force people to use their browser "back" and choose another picture).
bottom line: i didn't like it.

now if i knew how to change the "home" link on all the photopages in one step, then dreamweaver would have something worth using.