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Okay, more gallery 2 annoyance. I'm trying out the carbon theme. I've changed the name of the base album, where yours says photos.wapoc.com mauvais. Now when I click on that it goes back to the original white theme and logs me out. I have to log back in again and click "go back to album" to see the 'front page'. Why :confused: :(

Blech ...

E2A: getting mightily annoyed by it now. Will leave it for another day methinks.
 
Vintage Paw said:
Okay, more gallery 2 annoyance. I'm trying out the carbon theme. I've changed the name of the base album, where yours says photos.wapoc.com mauvais. Now when I click on that it goes back to the original white theme and logs me out. I have to log back in again and click "go back to album" to see the 'front page'. Why :confused: :(
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over-aggressive caching in your web browser?
 
cybertect said:
over-aggressive caching in your web browser?
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Yep, turns out it was.

Now the thumbnails are broken though :rolleyes:

I'll come back to it another day. Got to read a book before it needs to be back at the library by 11.30 :eek: Some bastard put a hold on it :mad:
 
Vintage Paw said:
Okay, more gallery 2 annoyance. I'm trying out the carbon theme. I've changed the name of the base album, where yours says photos.wapoc.com mauvais. Now when I click on that it goes back to the original white theme and logs me out. I have to log back in again and click "go back to album" to see the 'front page'. Why :confused: :(

Blech ...

E2A: getting mightily annoyed by it now. Will leave it for another day methinks.
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you also might want to change the theme for all your albums too (each album can have a different theme should you want this...)

the thumbnails can be built in the admin panel of the site under general maintainence usually this takes several goes to build a large album ignore any out put errors if you have to do this process more than once as this is merely telling you that those thumbnail areadly exist....
 
I tell you, this thread is going to run and run :rolleyes:

It was a cache issue - I should have realised that. I've got too much on my mind at the moment I suppose.

I deleted all albums to start again because of the broken thumbnails.

I created one album and uploaded 4 pictures to it, checked to box to create thumbnails at the same time, and I got this error across the top of the screen (repeated 3 times)

Warning: exec() has been disabled for security reasons in /path to my root (hidden coz I'm secretive)/galleries/modules/core/classes/GalleryPlatform/UnixPlatform.class on line 96

Plus another about already seding headers or something. Yet again, the thumbnails are broken, although the main pictures are there. Any idea what this means? I will take a look in that file (unixplatform.class) later when I get home, but I doubt I'll know what I'm looking for. I haven't customised the template apart from installing the carbon theme, so I might just uninstall and try again. What a ball ache!
 
mauvais said:
The header warning is a result of the first error. As for the exec() problem, possibly bad news I'm afraid.

http://gallery.menalto.com/node/4749
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Well, I worked out it doesn't happen if I just upload one pic at a time. I read somewhere else it has to do with running GD as the image processor as it uses php memory or something. Anyway, I'll look into it more when I have more time I think.
 
Did you do that thing with the memory limit on installation? Put some file somewhere, I forget :D
 
In the spirit of fickleness, I have decided it is going to be simpleviewer :rolleyes: :D

I can integrate it into any design I like, and have as many galleries as I like. Its, well, simple - and will enable the clean showcase I wanted.

It's only on my machine at the moment while I start building it, but I'll put a link on once it's done.

Thanks for all the help folks :)
 
Well, I've got the prototype up and running :)

click here for one of the galleries. I've only got two up to test things out, canvas and lomo, so none of the other links will take you anywhere other than a blank page or 404 at the moment.

I'd appreciate any input - not nec. about the photos but about the layout/design etc. I'm designing in Mac Firefox, at 1400x900 - although I've resized my browser to 800x600 and 1024x768 (or whatever it is) obviously I don't have IE on my machine to see how it works in that, so if anyone has both Firefox and IE if they could let me know if it looks pretty much the same in both that would be great.

There seem to be weird limitations on how the actual flash viewer places itself in the window, so if your display is smaller you will probably have to scroll down, but the benefits of flash means that when you click for the next photo you don't have to keep scrolling down - it stays where it should.

Anyway, work in progress and all that - the photo line-up will change over time, and no doubt the design might a little too.
 
Love the photos :)

Only crit on the website would be that hte album selection is too far away from the photos. In fact, I didn't see it at first. I reckon the two buttons, "galleries" and "about" could go above "click here" above the thumbnails.
 
Crispy said:
Love the photos :)

Only crit on the website would be that hte album selection is too far away from the photos. In fact, I didn't see it at first. I reckon the two buttons, "galleries" and "about" could go above "click here" above the thumbnails.
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I don't like where they are either. Thing is, I have no control over the placement of the 'click here' text, only what it says - because of the way simpleviewer is built. So the whole flash viewer is sort of in a box of its own, and I can only control what goes around the box, iyswim.

I can move the menu to underneath the logo, but iirc (coz I started out with it like that) it disrupts the flow of the viewer if someone's window is smaller, say 800x600. Tbh though, with my photoblog the stats suggest 99.8% of the people looking at it have 1024xwhatever it is and above, so I shouldn't worry too much - but I want to make it as accessible as possible.
 
Well, maybe center justify the buttons instead of right - that way they always stay closer to the viewer. Oh and if you're caring about accessability, I'd question your use of flash...
 
Crispy said:
Well, maybe center justify the buttons instead of right - that way they always stay closer to the viewer. Oh and if you're caring about accessability, I'd question your use of flash...
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Very true - flash has its limitations for people, and indeed I've been to flash galleries that have annoyed the be-jeebus out of me. I've never liked how you can't direct link to a specific page within flash, and of course, not everyone has flash. However, I'm justifying it by *assuming* the people coming to the site will indeed be the sort of people to have flash ie other people interested in photography. Big assumption, I know :rolleyes: In addition, the easy navigation within the viewer of this particular flash program makes it less of a pain to navigate to a specific picture, and there is also the option of opening the original jpeg in a separate window if you right-click.

It isn't perfect by any means, but it suits my needs for the moment.

I've moved the menu over to next to the logo. What do you think? I've made the logo a bit smaller too - creating it on my 1440x900 display meant it looked just the right size on my monitor, but checking in smaller sizes made it look bigger than I wanted.

Thanks for your feedback, it's always good to get others' opinions on things like this during the creation process :)
 
Ironically, I don't have flash on my work machine (for arcane reasons I wno't go into) so can't give feedback!
 
Crispy said:
Ironically, I don't have flash on my work machine (for arcane reasons I wno't go into) so can't give feedback!
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I guess my assumption goes straight out the window then :rolleyes: Out of curiosity - what do you see if you don't have flash there then? Just something telling you to go get it? I ask because you said you liked the photos - ah, but was that last night on your own pc?
 
That's right. I get "SimpleViewer requires Macromedia Flash. Get Macromedia Flash. If you have Flash installed, click to view gallery."

Works fine on my home computer, btw - I like the look, but there doesn't seem to be anything that really requires flash. That little gallery could be done in html and css.
 
Right, not that anyone gives a shit (and quite right too ;) ) but I ditched the 'gallery' idea and got sucked back into photoblogging.

Set this up here with pixelpost. It allows for the pictures to be grouped into 'galleries' or categories, although I'm still trying to work out optimal functionality for that part yet.

Anyway, I'd appreciate the IE crowd's input - if it looks the same and works the same as in Firefox et al.

Apart from that, all gushing praise of my superlative photos would be wonderful :p
 
Thanks cybertect :)

I'm on a mac too, it looks fine in Safari, Camino and Firefox on there - just got no way of telling what it's like in IE (for all those really annoying people who don't know any better :rolleyes: ).

Have you tried Camino btw? It's got all the smooth and pretty looks of Safari but with a Firefox flair. For one it has that little bar at the bottom of your browser window that lets you know what the url of a link is if you hover over it (why does Safari not have this???) and scrollbars for drop-down menus (again, come on Safari!). However, it doesn't have all the wonderful plug-ins that Firefox has. If it ever catches up to speed Camino will become my browser du jour instead.
 
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