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#1 2008-06-27 02:35:48
- mdta
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Some advice for a Textpattern Virgin on his site implimentation...
Hello everyone. I have decided to move my site over from being a collection of includes and static pages, to a nice simple CMS, geared towards my website’s content, which is a portfolio of design, animation and soon photography.
After looking at various solutions, noticing other graphics portfolios using Textpattern, and hearing it referred to as the designer’s CMS, I installed it on a local test server, and was wondering if anyone here with more experience in these things, could offer some advice on how to go about starting my site, using the layout I have designed as a static example page.
My current website is here: My Current Static Website
And the new design I intend to use is here: Test page of New Website Design
Essentially I would like to upload one main image for each article or page, which becomes a thumbnail in two sizes, the medium and the smaller ones. Some articles will have a flash video in place of the large image, with a still uploaded also for the thumbnail, some pages would have multiple images, and for the photography section, the photos grouped into galleries, with one thumbnail chosen as the default.
Below the current article’s content, would be the 4 next articles in that category, and below, a list of all the pages in the category in small thumbnails, with a tooltip on hover.
Last edited by mdta (2008-06-27 02:37:10)
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Re: Some advice for a Textpattern Virgin on his site implimentation...
TXP can only do one thumbnail, but I would use the full size image as an article image and a medium image as its thumbnail. Just use HTML or CSS to downsize the medium image – it’ll be faster than loading three separate images.
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#3 2008-06-27 03:25:08
- BryanA.
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Re: Some advice for a Textpattern Virgin on his site implimentation...
It turns out there’s an amazingly easy way to get CSS to resize any image but you’ll have to call it with a DIV tag unless a better TXP user has another idea – and that wouldn’t be tough!
Your main image will be the biggest you can upload – you can automatically generate thumbnails which I would recommend as being the MIDDLE size. Now you’re stuck with needing the SMALLEST of the three. Call a txp thumbnail id INSIDE a DIV tag that further shrinks that image.
It might be an annoying extra bit of typing but could solve this. My best guess is as follows:
BIG: <txp:image id=00 />
MID: <txp:thumbnail id=00 />
SML: <div id="small"><txp:thumbnail id="00" /></div>
*where*
#small {
width: 100px;
height: auto;
border: 1px solid black;
}
TXP is great. CSS is great. I just learned that CSS can AUTO resize images! Brilliant but doesn’t save on bandwidth – so I recommend altering thumbnails.
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#4 2008-06-27 12:01:33
- mdta
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Re: Some advice for a Textpattern Virgin on his site implimentation...
I saw something called wow_gallery which says it makes multiple thumbnails, has anyone used it, and if so, could it do what I want it to?…
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