Thanks for the tip about Galleria; I currently use boring old HTML
galleries, and am just about to convert to something more exciting for a
couple of websites, so this tip comes at just the right time to save me
some effort :-)
Before I get to folder conventions, I should just mention the use of
"adjacent matching text files". I used to use that scheme, but had moved
away from that to a single "photoindex.txt" file which contained the
file names, captions, descriptions, etc. - i.e. all in one file, so that
I could control the order of display of the photos in the gallery. But
now I've (99%) decided to go back to that scheme, with 'photoindex.txt'
reduced to just an ordered list of image names, and all the caption info
in "someimage.txt" files as you described.
I have similar concerns about large numbers of files in one folder, so I
lean towards sub-folders for each image type. However, I don't favour
putting the primary image file at the top level; I'd have a sub-folder
for those also. So I (am going to) use the following variation
2A) USE Separate Folders AND file name appendages
/centipede-gallery
/images
photoindex.txt # control the order
mother-centipede.txt # caption, etc.
/normal
mother-centipede_normal.jpg #800px wide
/thumbnails
mother-centipede_thumb.jpg #100px wide
/big
mother-centipede_big.jpg #1500px wide
-- Alex.
P.S. Yes, please, I'd love to have a copy of your .irev libraries. How
about the desktop client ?
On 17/08/2011 05:50, Sivakatirswami wrote:
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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