What is the best way to make a portfolio?

andyg · 2009-02-19 23:05:52

Hi everyone,

Please forgive me as I am new to textpattern.

I’m sure this is covered many times before but searching such a big community I got over 700 pages.

Can someone point me to either a tutorial, a plugin or a mod for creating a portfolio style page for websites.

Probably using fields for the project details and url and then screenshots of the website probably using a lightbox.

I would welcome any help whatsover

thank you kindly,

Andy

lister · 2009-02-19 23:21:31

Hi Andyg, you could start looking here textbook Tutorials have a look at this link for Textpattern resources .

There are some really helpful people here,good luck…

Last edited by lister (2009-02-19 23:22:16)

jakob · 2009-02-20 08:25:29

Hi andyg, if you’ve read through some of the threads you will have seen that a common arrangement is as follows:

one article per project, article body for description, excerpt for short info
article custom fields for details, url, date, client name, article ID of associated projects for example
article image field for image ID-numbers (you can enter a comma-separated list 4,8,9,11,12 if you want several)
article categories for subsets of your portfolio, e.g. pro-bono, private, e-commerce or web, print, illustration… or whatever. This depends very much on your own requirements.
sections for your different areas, e.g. blog, about, services…

This is just one approach, there are, of course, many.

For your portfolio profile page, one of the many image gallery plug-ins, e.g. ike_slideshow, upm_image with the jquery galleria image switcher or modal-box variant like you mention using smd_gallery with shadowbox (for example, you could also use slimbox2) . With smd_gallery you can build just about any variant you can think of. There is a comparison of image gallery plugins but that was written a while back and new one’s have since surfaced.

For your portfolio overview page, you can use either the in-built txp:article tag as this is context-sensitive, e.g. shows all articles on a section landing page, only those articles from a category when the url restricts by category and an individual article when only one is showing. For your overview page, work out the structure of a repeating element, e.g. a linked thumbnail, name, category/client, then make an article form of that and use it as your listform. Various plugins, e.g. upm_image or hak_article_image allow you to limit the thumbnail that shows to the first in your list of article images (i.e. the first image-ID number in your article field serves as title image). Alternatively, if a grid of thumbs is all you are after you can use something like wet_thumbfilter.

That should be enough to get you going :-)

mrtunes · 2009-02-20 23:45:47

this could be a good video topic for our discussion
portfolio sites are where TXP excels at over some of the other popular blog CMSs
but to the original poster – the Textpattern Solutions book is a great resource whenever you want to sit down and make a certain type of site – it has portfolio, e-commerce and directory style site breakdowns.

andyg · 2009-03-13 00:35:47

Hi everybody, hope you’re all well.

Thank you for some great replies and information. It will certainly help as I need to suss this out.

I’m finding it’s quite a common requirement for clients sites as well these days. I tend to get a lot of builders, tilers and plumbers sites who want to be able to add recent work as a portfolio and keep their sites fresh.

I just need to do this on my own site first before I make promises and these tips will certainly help.

thank you. :)

Andy

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What is the best way to make a portfolio?

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