I am using Galleria on our web site.. (galleria aino.se)
I love it... so extensible, customizable, documentation is excellent
I've written some .irev libraries that only need a path to a folder with
images and adjacent matching text files for captions and then LiveCode
dynamically builds the slide show web page. It's simple. I have a
desktop client that people use to create content:
someImage.jpg
someImage.txt # a caption file
this CMS is really very portable and can be massaged into any kind of
delivery framework...
I'm just wondering what others think in terms of future CMS and coding
and issues. A fork in the road:
1. ALL IMAGES IN ONE FOLDER (thumbnails, 800px wide "large" photo,
1500px wide "Big Photo"
-- with file name appendages
/centipede-gallery
/images
mother-centipede.jpg #800px wide
mother-centipede.txt # caption
mother-centipede_thumb.jpg #100px wide
mother-centipede_big.jpg #1500px wide
OR
2) USE Separate Folders AND file name appendages
/centipede-gallery
/images
mother-centipede.jpg #800px wide
mother-centipede.txt # caption
/thumbnails
mother-centipede_thumb.jpg #100px wide
/big
mother-centipede_big.jpg #1500px wide
Galleria documentation is agnostic (as it should be) but "kinda" points
to all images in the same folder:
as flat HTML:
div id="gallery">
<a href="/img/large1.jpg"><img src="/img/thumb1.jpg" alt="My description" title="My
title"></a>
<a href="/img/large2.jpg"><img src="/img/thumb2.jpg" alt="Another text"
title="Another title"></a>
</div>
or as JSON:
<script>
var data = [
{
image: 'img1.jpg',
thumb: 'thumb1.jpg',
big: 'big1.jpg',
title: 'my first image',
description: 'Lorem ipsum caption',
link: 'http://domain.com'
},
on the other hand I get nervous when I see lots of files
in the same folder and some obsessive Virgo part of me wants to always organize
things
and hence the gut anxiety that maybe it is better to use extra folders for
thumbnails and big images,
then in Livecode, if you need to you can just targe the folder "thumbnails" and
get a file list...
vs parsing a list of files for "*_thumb*" which is easily breakable...
A good folder, filename convention always pays off big dividends in the end
and many times it really does not matter exactly what you do,
but only that you *do* have some rational layout and conventions and follow
them.
In this case I am in a fix and waffling about which way to go and wondered if
anyone else
has experience and strong ideas about image gallery CMS conventions?
Gallery: All images Variations in a Single Folder vs Folders for Each Image
Variation type
Oh and if you want the code for the slide shows. happy to share.
Sivakatirswami
PS. Mother centipede is real:
http://himalayanacademy.com/blog/taka/2011/08/16/natures-wonders-amma-centipede/
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