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Closed 10 years ago.
Can someone point me to a good Drupal Photo Gallery tutorial or book. I am trying to create a photo gallery in a grid view. However, I do not want the titles, etc. to be displayed with the photos. Also, I want to place a border around the photos to make them stand out a bit.
I am not that well versed in PHP so I want the solution to be handled completely with modules and as little coding as possible.
Here's a module that puts together the Views/CCK/Imagefield configuration for a gallery: http://drupal.org/project/views_gallery
What's great about this approach is that you then end up with a cck/views-based gallery and can easily tweak it to anything you want (like not wanting to display titles, having images pop up in a lightbox with a caption, etc.) and reuse the display of images elsewhere easily.
You can build your own photo gallery using Drupal modules like cck, views, imagefield and imagecache. Just search Google or Drupal.org, there are plenty of how-to's out there.
Here is a recent tutorial video: http://learnbythedrop.com/drop/148
If you are interested in learning how to use Drupal, with little/no php coding, you should take a look at Using Drupal by the Lullabot team. It covers a lot of different cases, one of them is how you can build an image gallery like you describe.
Here's a tutorial that really helped me when I was doing the same thing for the first time: http://www.primalmedia.com/blog/building-better-drupal-photo-gallery
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Closed 9 years ago.
I have been reading Twitter bootstrap for quite a while now. It gives pre-made functionality for so many things using CSS classes, I can create anything. Along with a lot of jQuery plugins already integrated in the package.
On the other hand I see there is a theme with the name responsive is available in Wordpress which gives same functionality. I am confused to choose what should I choose for my upcoming-project. I am going to use Wordpress for the project.
I need to know the following.
Which one is easy to learn? Responsive documentation doesn't seem to be user friendly.
Is it fine to use bootstrap in wordpress theme? Do i have to do much customization than responsive if i use bootstrap?
Will using responsive give me any benefit over bootstrap and in the future how can i reuse responsive theme.
I don't know what responsive theme or types of customization you are referring to.
While I can't speak to the specific theme, I can say a few things about bootstrap.
Bootstrap offers lots of flexibility when it comes to a responsive layout as witnessed in the docs. You can use fixed or fluid layouts and nest and offset content.
Bootstrap offers a lot of flexibility in aesthetic choices as well. Aside from customizing the css yourself there are free options available including those on bootswatch .
If you need an example or theme of bootstrap/wordpress integration you can find one at BootstrapWP.
Even if you don't want the look and feel of the bootstrap components you can still use it for the responsive features. It's not terribly hard to set up and is very reusable. It's also maintained very well and has excellent documentation. It gets my vote.
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Closed 10 years ago.
The objective is to make the WP admin menu look like:
The top nav has the quicklinks that everyone can relate to with pictures.
(source: thedesignwork.com)
Easily clickable if accessed by a tablet.
Notifications are served with colored numbers.
(source: thedesignwork.com)
Including customizing popup displays.
Where the start isn't the normal analytics widgets and overview but an app like place to offer all the extra "apps" the admin menu has. It'll have to be customizable where users can decide if to access the normal dashboard or this menu:
(source: alexsantidote.com)
All plugins I came across only changes the WP logo, the color of the admin hover bar, and some basic css stuff. Can somebody point me into the right direction? I'm new to wordpress and hopefully this is possible..
The next step would be making it into a network activated plugin (I'll ask that another time..).
http://www.thedesignwork.com/admin-panel-psd-template/
A good place to start is the WordPress Codex's Page on Creating Admin Themes. This is not going to be a trivial task, though. Just warning you.
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I've been using Paint.NET to create mockups for my web application. They're pretty, and it's not hard to save the constituent graphical elements. However, the process of getting my layout into CSS is completely manual and time-consuming.
I'm aware there are better tools out there for this. Should I be looking at DreamWeaver? I'm not looking for any auto-generated web or data access functionality, and I'm happy to code all the behavior myself. I'm mostly looking for a great-looking layout editor that understands both layered imaging and CSS. (Preferably, one that can map a layered image to HTML and generate initial CSS with the right styling.)
Thanks in advance for any and all insight!
Jeff
A text editor, really.
It's time consuming, yes, but so is doing anything right. I have yet to use any program that builds the design of a website with a level of markup quality that I find even remotely acceptable. Where you may give a div a class of userInfo, most layout programs might give that div a class of style12 or something equally unhelpful. This results in unmaintainable markup, which is especially hard to build into a web application.
So learn how to do it by hand, and then do it by hand.
Axuer can be used to take mockups/prototypes and export as HTML/CSS: http://www.axure.com/
I only ever used it for prototyping.
There are no apps that will make it a css3, they apps that exist will give you a lot of image sprites and css2 and a lot of bugs you have to fix manually :/
So suggest coding it manually or hiring someone who does it(Kinda cheap these days even I would do it if I get paid well enough)
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Closed 11 years ago.
Why Views are not used in widely in Drupal?
The question is so vague.
Disadvantage of using Views module? One of the disadvantages I can think of is its difficulty to configure it properly. Too many configurations needed to make things work.
p.s. this should move to Drupal Answers.
Your question should really be "why do some programmers discourage the use of Views in Drupal?"
And the answer would be because of the massive amount of extra page overhead and extraneous markup that's generated by the module. Those of us who care about DOM complexity and semantic markup wouldn't touch Views with a 10 foot pole on a normal day, preferring to write quick custom modules to output code that we have full control over (and I mean full control without having to override countless template files for specific Views/display modes).
Don't get me wrong, Views is excellent for what it is and a newcomer to programming in Drupal would likely find it very useful. Also there are many, many contributed modules that extend Views and many that expose their data in a fashion accessible to Views so you can build some complex, well related queries if you know what you're doing.
I would also echo what Shivan Raptor has said in that the UI for Views is an unwieldy behemoth at the best of times; I'm sure to those who wrote it it's as easy as pie to use but I have been frustrated so many times trying to find how to make the simplest change to a View that I gave up using them altogether (except for Views provided by other modules that are already complete!)
So to summarise, your question's premise is indeed false, but if you wanted to know some of the reasons Views isn't more widely used then you do now :-)
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Closed 11 years ago.
I have been creating joomla-powered webiste for quite a while by now. Recently I had to do a makeover of a WordPress powered website that also included significant navigation and structure changes. Perhaps it is that I am so used to Joomla, but WordPress seemed so damn not cool. Like simply listing pages requires either installing a plugin or dipping into documentation and coding it yourself, while you can easily accomplish it with just a few clicks in Joomla. Then in Joomla I can specify what modules I want to be shown for certain menu items or even assign a different theme if I need to. In WordPress I had to write some php code to accomplish this trivial task. It is so natural and easy to code themes with jdoc statements it took me half an hour to grasp everything when I tried doing it the very first time, and it took me hours to sort everything out with WordPress. I mean, yup, Joomla isn't perfect too, e.g. they still haven't updated documentation for 1.6 and stuff.
But why do people love WordPress so much?! I could understand using it for blogs, but why would anyone use it to build full-fledged web-sites?