I want a really nice way to load in pictures onto a webpage, like a portfolio of my work (let's say it's pottery that I sell on the web) - various fade effects and the like - what can you recommend? Is there something in JQuery?
Thanks
The most popular are probably:
lightbox
lightbox2
thickbox jquery plugin
There are plenty of jQuery plugins that will do this for you. One that I like is the Cycle plugin. There is also Cycle Lite if you don't need as many effects. For more you can search the jQuery plugin database for slideshow or carousel -- and perhaps other keywords.
I really love fancy
I'm using the LightBox on my website and have not found anything easier to work with. Best of all it is free. Here is an example of the implementation on my website.
Italy Pictures
You can download the Lightbox code here...
Lightbox 2 may be worth a look. Nice way of loading images from thumbnail links. Very simple to implement too.
Besides what has already been mentioned, I have used slideshowpro and really like it. A very inexpensive download (like $20 or something like that), its free to try, and widely used. It is a flash plugin however, so you need to be OK with that (you don't need to know flash to use it)
Its use xml files to define the gallery/pictures and has a lot of easily configurable options. Also has an add-in for Picasa that will automatically generate the XML for you from a list of files.
http://slideshowpro.net/
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I would like to show some forms in my Drupal Website in a popup or accordion. I have tried popup module but it shows only for viewing nodes and not adding/editing. How can I do that?
Thanks for your help
This can be done with https://drupal.org/project/popup_forms, but you need to do some programming in order to apply it (i.e. it can't be just configured via admin interface).
maybe this module help you Modal forms
In my personal opinion Popups API is a very good module.You could show the necessary contents that suites your purpose .It is quite easy to use.I think you just need to read the documentation.If you really change this module there are other modules available like Modal forms,Modal Frame API,colorbox, Chaos tool suite etc.You can find a lot of modules needed for your purpose. The following links might help you:
https://drupal.org/project/colorbox
https://drupal.org/project/modal_forms
https://drupal.org/project/modalframe
I am using SimpleViewer to show images on a website. It's a nice and elegant tool. But, as it is using Flash not all devices (e.g. iPad?) will/can show the images. Does anybody know about a non-Flash alternative? Maybe totally CSS cased?
I know this is an old question, but I found something that looks quite a bit like SimplerViewer called Gallerific. https://github.com/iamvery/galleriffic
If you check out the example 2 you'll see a layout that looks a lot like SimpleView
Well, I have checked under every rock and I can't find a good non-flash alternative to SimpleViewer (i'm really curious now to if there's one!). There are rumours about it soon being changed to HTML5 (a wise decision), but I don't know if you can wait that long.
I would say the best option is jQuery and CSS, you can personalise and style your gallery as you wish, but you will have to be at least a bit comfortable with html editing. It's not complicated at all, you should give it a try.
You can find lots of jQuery galleries and sliders tutorials here for example: http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/web-development/jquery-image-galleries/
Do some search engine research to get the best options, there are tons of different galleries.
Good luck!
They have now, see: this comment at the SimpleViewer Forum. It's called Universal Playback.
I'm using Joomla 1.5 and I need to create a simple gallery in my site but I don't want to create new component because it's takes a lot of time to learn...
So I wanted to ask:
if I create a simple jQuery gallery in standalone .html file and then I embed it using Wrapper into Joomla, will there be any heavy problems?
Thanks
You don't need to do a full-blown MVC component for this: a quick one will work. Add the file components/com_jquery_gallery/jquery_gallery.php and add your HTML code there. The HTML will be accessible through index.php?option=com_jquery_gallery.
Joomla Wrapper is essentially an IFRAME. If your gallery works in an IFRAME without any issues, and you're completely happy with updating the embedded HTML file manually, then the only downside is that it is a usability "hack", and it may make it more difficult to manage it in the future.
The wrapper is very limited and you could use a "custom" code plugin instead of the wrapper, which allows you to place html, javascript, PHP into an article, IMO it's better than the wrapper because it gives more control.
I recommend Sourcerer It's great and was updated yesterday :)
Why not just use one of the many free photo gallery extensions??
http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/photos-a-images/photo-gallery
No code work, plenty of features, and much faster than even the simplest component.
I know this has been asked before, but I am hoping that there are more options available now.
I am looking for a nice simple image editing plugin that I can include in my document imaging system.
It doesn't need serious photoshop type functionality, just the basics like zooming,cropping,resizing,flipping and rotating.
Doesn't have to be a freebie component, but I would prefer there to not be runtime licenses because there will e multiple implementations of our product.
btw - website is in ASP.Net
Thanks
Craig
We use CuteEditor from www.cutesoft.net, its a great html editor and has a good uploading and image editing, I think these can be used outside the editor: see: http://cutesoft.net/forums/9329/ShowPost.aspx
How can I achieve a cool looking photo gallery page? I don't know Flash, but can learn, and thought about a random collage that 'pulls out' a photo that you hover over.
It's for a photographer, so no thumbnails, grids, etc.
If you're looking for a tool that's pretty flexible and will support itself later on as you can just train the user to work with it check out JAlbum.
To work on integrating this yourself you can check out AJAX ASP Photo Gallery or something like this one.
If you're looking for a flash/flex based solution that they can just "plug-in" as a stand-alone product which incorporates some of the features you've described StudioCloud has a nice one that has a monthly fee...
I have had good results using the Galleria plugin for jQuery: http://devkick.com/lab/galleria/.
It will require an html page as a source, but this is relatively easy to produce automatically from a database or directory structure using ASP.NET
If the data does not need to be updated too often you could even produce the HTML by hand in a pinch. It wouldnt be difficult though it isnt easy to maintain.
I agree with Mat - JAlbum is excellent - but I'd also like to add that it's even better with the BananAlbum skin.
There are dozens of off the shelf apps available. Gallery, Wordpress (after configuration), and a few ASP.Net based ones. Flash is certainly not required.
That said, in order to learn a bit about Pylons, I wrote my own basic photo blog. If you can do basic CRUD development, it shouldn't be too hard.
Regarding your collage idea, you can accomplish that with JavaScript as well. See this article for similar effects stuff.
A little random, but the Silverlight deep zoom functionality is pretty cool around this area (although whether it's worth learning for this is another matter):
Example here: http://memorabilia.hardrock.com/