08-19-2007, 07:46 AM
First off, thank you for the great system. I've custom built my own engine for projects, used slideshow pro, you name it - but this was a great way to get an engine up and running with little strain and built under the fantastic wordpress.
Wedding site:
http://jeanand.russjang.com/
This was a personal project I delved up for my girlfriends brother (and new sister-in-law), so I wanted something they could mess with, and wordpress was comfortable with them.
I originally tried to use Grain and phT as my templates that I could customize from, but although they are great systems, I found them bloated for my needs (with some divitis on a few), and I don't care much for admin management- I wanted it straight in the template.
So I started from scratch using your template code suggestions. The home page uses two loops: one for the full page (that thumbnails them at 600+ pixels) randomly, and one for a whole group mosaic (that I think I may also randomize).
Getting away from all things evil flash is easy if you use mootools and the excellent Smooth Gallery: http://smoothgallery.jondesign.net/
I customized the JS to be more semantic and match my code, so you get a cool slideshow (no JS you just get mosaic).
Instead of using PHP to fully dimension out my thumbnails, I've called them at 100px wide, and then used overflow: hidden; with a fixed height on the containing element to hide the overlap of taller photos.
Most everything else is simple loop and YAPB calls - so again, much appreciated for a fantastic engine
If anyone has any questions, I'm happy to answer or submit code. I was thinking a barebones version of this without CSS for people to customize might be helpful as a truly clean and semantic method for designing, so after a little family design break I'll submit it. Thank you, I hope it helps as inspiration!
Wedding site:
http://jeanand.russjang.com/
This was a personal project I delved up for my girlfriends brother (and new sister-in-law), so I wanted something they could mess with, and wordpress was comfortable with them.
I originally tried to use Grain and phT as my templates that I could customize from, but although they are great systems, I found them bloated for my needs (with some divitis on a few), and I don't care much for admin management- I wanted it straight in the template.
So I started from scratch using your template code suggestions. The home page uses two loops: one for the full page (that thumbnails them at 600+ pixels) randomly, and one for a whole group mosaic (that I think I may also randomize).
Getting away from all things evil flash is easy if you use mootools and the excellent Smooth Gallery: http://smoothgallery.jondesign.net/
I customized the JS to be more semantic and match my code, so you get a cool slideshow (no JS you just get mosaic).
Instead of using PHP to fully dimension out my thumbnails, I've called them at 100px wide, and then used overflow: hidden; with a fixed height on the containing element to hide the overlap of taller photos.
Most everything else is simple loop and YAPB calls - so again, much appreciated for a fantastic engine
If anyone has any questions, I'm happy to answer or submit code. I was thinking a barebones version of this without CSS for people to customize might be helpful as a truly clean and semantic method for designing, so after a little family design break I'll submit it. Thank you, I hope it helps as inspiration!