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#1 2009-06-20 03:05:10
- kevinpotts
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- From: Ghost Coast
- Registered: 2004-12-07
- Posts: 370
In The Word Ministries
I don’t post much of my work here because it’s pretty straightforward stuff, but I thought I few might be interested in the new site for In The Word Ministries, which uses some pretty sweet Textpattern magic. A few notables:
- Gallery page uses the mighty smd_gallery integrated with Shadowbox, which I have found to be a most painless solution for presenting data (any data) in a floating frame.
- The Products (and some registerable events) use the soon-to-be mighty yab_shop for a front-end PayPal shopping cart interface. I’ve been beta testing this plugin since version 5 something, and the development effort behind it is incredible. Hats off to Trenc.
- The podcast section uses an7_audio plugin for loading MP3s. None are there right now, but they will be soon. A very small and effective solution for loading audio in a page.
- Just a bucket of custom schema work with glz_custom_fields and sed_section_fields, which allowed me to create significant template triggers based on simple dropdown options in the Write screen.
That’s it. Questions / comments welcome, as always.
Kevin
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Re: In The Word Ministries
Nice looking site there sir. Glad you find smd_gallery useful. One thing with the gallery (it’s a shadowbox ‘feature’ and is the only thing that bugs me about it) is the caption along the top: long captions disappear under some portrait images, and large galleries have too many page numbers beneath the picture so the numbers overwrite the << and >>. Some of them on the right hand side become uncklickable as they somehow interfere with the background/other nav elements.
Try viewing the site with a browser set to 1280×768 (my little widescreen laptop’s max res, unfortunately) and look at image #22 (16.jpg) on the 2008 KCWC page to see what I mean.
But other than that it’s pretty sweet. Clean navigation, logical, well laid out content which is easy to find stuff. Good work.
The smd plugin menagerie — for when you need one more gribble of power from Textpattern. Bleeding-edge code available on GitHub.
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#4 2009-06-29 03:20:17
- kevinpotts
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- From: Ghost Coast
- Registered: 2004-12-07
- Posts: 370
Re: In The Word Ministries
Bloke wrote:
Nice looking site there sir. Glad you find smd_gallery useful. One thing with the gallery (it’s a shadowbox ‘feature’ and is the only thing that bugs me about it) is the caption along the top: long captions disappear under some portrait images, and large galleries have too many page numbers beneath the picture so the numbers overwrite the << and >>. Some of them on the right hand side become uncklickable as they somehow interfere with the background/other nav elements.
Yes, I know, but I consider it collateral damage. Clients insists on vertical pics.
And to be clear, I used this Shadowbox script with smd_gallery, which works wonderfully.
Kevin
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