Image gallery with album selection
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Hi all,
Just wondering if anyone has come across a block or script which can be customised to have a nice functioning image gallery which has the ability to hold multiple albums?
I have a single image gallery page which just runs down the page with the Gallery block but this is getting too long. As the image sets are based off several different party events, this would be perfectly suited to a Facebook style album layout.
It can be done with page lists and thumbnails etc but I was hoping there might be one combined resource out there to achieve this without have to continually create new pages.
Any help would be greatly appreciated
Just wondering if anyone has come across a block or script which can be customised to have a nice functioning image gallery which has the ability to hold multiple albums?
I have a single image gallery page which just runs down the page with the Gallery block but this is getting too long. As the image sets are based off several different party events, this would be perfectly suited to a Facebook style album layout.
It can be done with page lists and thumbnails etc but I was hoping there might be one combined resource out there to achieve this without have to continually create new pages.
Any help would be greatly appreciated
yeah, I agree with Jared, having a separate album on each page works well. Here's another example of setting it up that way with the ProPhoto image browser, using the next/previous block to page between sibling collections:http://inneroptics.net/collections/...
Hey Tony,
What are the blocks you would need to create what you have on your website where you're on the collection page and click on a thumbnail image and it takes you to a detail page where you have a gallery. Thanks.
What are the blocks you would need to create what you have on your website where you're on the collection page and click on a thumbnail image and it takes you to a detail page where you have a gallery. Thanks.
I'm fairly certain he's just using a custom template for the built-in Page List block. See these two tutorials for instructions on how to do that:
http://concrete5studio.com/support/tutorials/creating-a-custom-temp...
http://www.codeblog.ch/2009/03/concrete5-templates/...
http://concrete5studio.com/support/tutorials/creating-a-custom-temp...
http://www.codeblog.ch/2009/03/concrete5-templates/...
yup, Jordan's on the right track.
You can also combine all of the files in the various file sets into one super file set (files can be in more than 1 set), then use that super file set for the gallery. Or you could multiple gallery blocks to the same page.
The approach I've used several times now is to give each album a page, and place a block on the page which handles the album display.
The album itself is a C5 Fileset.. and the block that is used for display has the Fileset specified in it.
This is the approach I used for http://www.allan-duncan-photography.com...
There are several javascript galleries out there which are fairly nice.
The one used on this site is GalleryView.