Posted by rotnme on June 29, 2009 at 3:55am
Just curious if there are any plans in the works for another get together. I went to the one on June 18th and was hooked. I'm a newbie to all this. I left Mercados on June 18 with all of my issues addressed, many thanks to Sheena and Alex, as well as all the others who were there. Well of course since then other problems/questions have arisen, me being new to all this am becoming aggravated and frustrated, I need a group intrvention.
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Glad to hear the last
Glad to hear the last meeting was productive for you. If you have specific questions/issues there is no need to wait until the next meeting to have them addressed. Feel free to post up here and we'll do what we can to help. Also, the folks in #drupal and #drupal-support on IRC (freenode?) generally do a pretty good job of answering questions.
questions
Well, since you offered. In a nutshell, what I have is my site with a home page, about us page, gallery of work page, etc. I'm using wysiwyg, fckeditor, icme. Everything is going well so far, as well as can be expected for me at least. What I am trying to do is on my gallery page of work picts I have three categories residential, commercial, custom stairs. These will all be on the same page just different headings. The pictures associated with these I would like to create as thumbnails that when clicked on enlarge. I've created some nice borders around the picts in photoshop but am having trouble with the thumbnails. Poking around I've found that imagecache, which I have installed, allows the creation of thumbnails as well as other revision tools. I'm stuck. Sorry for the lengthy post. Any thoughts? Thanks in advance.
Mark
Use a Module
It sounds like you're trying to manually do things that someone has already made a module for. http://drupal.org/project/galleria is what we typically use, but there are many other gallery modules that might be good depending on your specific needs.
Ken Winters
www.coalmarch.com
Ken Winters
Probably so. I looked at
Probably so. I looked at the galleria mod. What I ultimately would like is a bunch of picts under each category about 180x180 that when clicked on would enlarge to maybe around 500. Would this mod accomplish that or is there a specific mod that you know of that would? Thanks.
Mark
PS: Ask Jim Switzer about how much fun I'm having with this.
Demos
Check out the demos to see what it can do: demo1 demo2
Ken Winters
www.coalmarch.com
Ken Winters
Yup. I think I can make it
Yup. I think I can make it work. Thanks so much. I'm off to install the module and most likely unleash a whole host of other problems. Thanks again. Help here is a lot better than on the drupal site.
Mark
foolish question, but once I
foolish question, but once I have the module activated how do I utilize galleria?
You need a content type with
You need a content type with the right image fields (attachments is easiest but CCK works too), and there's a setting in the edit content type form for Galleria.
Ken Winters
www.coalmarch.com
Ken Winters
here we go, I've opened
here we go, I've opened pandoras box. I created a content type called photo (set it up field_photo, file, widget image, label , teaser galleria, full node galleria). I go to create content photo, it directs me to choose a file to upload. The result is a photo that is above a blank body. I really have no idea what I'm doing, just trial and error. I was hoping to get something similar to galleria demo1. Where have I strayed? Thanks in advance.
Mark
There appears to be detailed
There appears to be detailed instructions in the README.txt file. Have you read through that? Always a good place to start for module questions.
http://cvs.drupal.org/viewvc.py/drupal/contributions/modules/galleria/RE...
Yes, over and over seeing if
Yes, over and over seeing if I missed something. Stuck where I'm at..........
You need to have more than
You need to have more than one photo in the node for it to be particularly useful. I would stick to drupal attachments rather than CCK for now, since it's easier to set up.
Ken Winters
www.coalmarch.com
Ken Winters
Fine by me, how do I go
Fine by me, how do I go about this? Thanks.......
OK, figured that out.
OK, figured that out. Sorry, I should have thought about it before last post. Anyhow, I have a couple of test images on a test galleria page. Large photo shows with thumbnails on the bottom, perfect. My question now is how do I put this on my Gallery page under a title and then repeat it with different pictures under maybe two other titles.
For a number of reasons, you
For a number of reasons, you probably should avoid displaying multiple Galleria galleries on the same page load. If the images are different enough to justify it, you should put them on separate nodes with separate URLs, and if they aren't different enough then just put them in a single larger Galleria node.
If you want to get fancy, you will need to learn Views (which is true of most any Drupal site creation).
Ken Winters
www.coalmarch.com
Ken Winters
Thanks so much Ken. You've
Thanks so much Ken. You've been very helpful!
FYI, http://drupalchat.net/
FYI, http://drupalchat.net/ is super convenient for getting IRC help if you don't have a client installed.
http://drupalchat.net
I could not get in - each time the session was terminated once I hit the submit button ????
triDUG on Vacation in July
Hi All,
Between all the organizers of our group, we have all had or are going to be having a lot of vacation and out-of-town time in June and July, so we have decided not to do a monthly meeting in July, because we just haven't had time to plan anything.
Coalmarch might still host a Hack Night in the next couple of weeks, but I'm not sure yet.
If there is anyone else who wants to organize and/or host a hack night in July, please don't hesitate to let us know! Alex from Merkados wanted a Hack Night on a Thursday (we usually do Wednesdays) and so he found some space at his office and hosted for us; anyone who wants to is welcome to take the initiative and organize a hack night that is convenient to them! Just let us know ahead of time if you want one of the usual organizers in attendance and we'll work it out.
i'm sure there must be a way.....
Ok, what I'm thinking, in my mind, should be possible. I just don't have the knowledge or expertise, so hence my question. Based on the previous posts about galleria, I would like to make the galleria page as a cascade menu item under it's parent page. What I envision is the cursor scrolling over the "main" page which would then display a sub-menu of the main text page as well as the galleria page, the user being able to click on either one. Hopefully this makes sense and it is something that is easily accomplished. Any help is greatly appreciated because I really am so new to all this.
Thanks,
Mark
additional problem
Well it seems that I have an error message across the top of all my pages, "Invalid Galleria: there are no attachments. See README.txt for help." Of course I have no idea what this is about...................
Mark
the only page that this
the only page that this message is not on is the galleria.
I'm not sure what you're
I'm not sure what you're after with the menus, but it sounds like you set some content type (Page?) to be a galleria type but shouldn't have. Gallery should really be its own content type and used only for that purpose.
Ken Winters
www.coalmarch.com
Ken Winters
Hey Ken. In content type I
Hey Ken. In content type I have page and galleria. I have a regular page with text in the body as well as a "galleria page" that exhibits the photos related to the text page as you suggested earlier. In my nav menu there are all my pages listed. Using this example what I would like to do is be able to move the cursor over the "text page" in the menu then have two items appear, one being the clickable link to the text page and one being the clickable link to the galleria page. I guess I'm trying to streamline my nav bar. Ultimately I'll wind up with about 8-10 text pages and associated galleria pages. Hope this makes some sort of sense. Thanks in advance.
Mark
There are tons of menu
There are tons of menu modules, one of which should do what you want. That is the kind of thing you just have to experiment with. However, just be aware that the more complicated you want to make any part of your site, the more likely it is that you'll have to do some custom templating or coding.
Other than the "galleria" option being turned on for those other page types I can't really think of anything off-hand that might be wrong.
Ken Winters
www.coalmarch.com
Ken Winters
The galleria option message
The galleria option message has been resolved. A box was checked that should not have been. Easy fix, tough finding it though. As far as the menu goes I look through a bunch and installed simplemenu. It does exactly what I'm looking for. I can create all my galleria and lump them in one pull down. The only problem with it is that it's a top menu. Does anyone know of a simiar menu that will load on the left side? Thanks as always.
Mark