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Re: photo module?

2006/4/23 14:17
alandail
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yes, that was helpful - it's good to see examples. How much control do you have? For now I would just want to allow administrators to upload albums but allow everyone to view them.

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http://www.cavsworld.com
http://www.cafeshopper.com
http://celebrity.cafeshopper.com
http://www.1sies.com

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Re: photo module?

2006/4/23 3:41
alandail
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I saw the modules in there - the descriptions weren't detailed enough to tell which one would best fit my needs.

visit my sites
http://www.cavsworld.com
http://www.cafeshopper.com
http://celebrity.cafeshopper.com
http://www.1sies.com

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photo module?

2006/4/23 3:06
alandail
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Since: 2006/4/18

I'm hoping there's an easy answer for this. For my sitehttp://cavsworld.com I want to add photo libraries. What I'm hoping for is a module that lets me do something like the following

Drop a folder of jpegs on the server

tell the module the path to the new folder, specify a title, click a button

Have a new sub menu with that title appear under the photo library menu that opens a page with thumbnails of each image in that folder where a click on the image opens a new page that has the full size image and has next/previous buttons that take you to the page for the next/previous image.

it's also be nice if the module tracked view counts for each image to give me feedback of which images people are viewing the most.

I have about 60 images from the game today that I'd like to get online tomorrow. I'd prefer to not have to go through a manual process of loading the images one at a time.

And it's important for there to be a clear distinction between this group and the pictures I take for game 2.

visit my sites
http://www.cavsworld.com
http://www.cafeshopper.com
http://celebrity.cafeshopper.com
http://www.1sies.com

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Re: improving news spotlight

2006/4/21 18:46
alandail
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Since: 2006/4/18

It was no big deal this time to have to reset preferences, but I could see it being a problem doing it that way when my site gets more involved.

visit my sites
http://www.cavsworld.com
http://www.cafeshopper.com
http://celebrity.cafeshopper.com
http://www.1sies.com

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Why is my text centering?

2006/4/21 5:51
alandail
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Since: 2006/4/18

This happens on windows, but not on a mac.

My text is centered on my main page. It was happing in spotlight, so I had to temporarily turn that off, but it's also happening other places, such as hte headers to most of the sections and to the text in the recent replied topics block.

where would I even look for the cause of this?

visit my sites
http://www.cavsworld.com
http://www.cafeshopper.com
http://celebrity.cafeshopper.com
http://www.1sies.com

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Re: my new site

2006/4/21 5:01
alandail
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Since: 2006/4/18

wow! that looks fantastic! I'm going to have to rework my whole site now. For a quick change, I shrunk it down to the size I can use for a signature because I didn't have the foresight to store my old simple logo in 2 places, so I'd violate rules on various sites had I used it full size.

visit my sites
http://www.cavsworld.com
http://www.cafeshopper.com
http://celebrity.cafeshopper.com
http://www.1sies.com

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Re: my new site

2006/4/21 4:09
alandail
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Since: 2006/4/18

I rearranged some stuff and updated the poll block so it only shows the most recent poll, which was a space saver. The result is a bit less clutter and a more visible amazon ad.

On thing that had surprised me was with a good 1000 hits, nobody had clicked on the amazon ad with all of the cool cavs stuff it's showing most of the time. I'm not surprised nobody has bought anything in just a couple of days, but I would have thought someone would have at least clicked on one of them. Perhaps it was too far down the page to see the pictures.

It would be nice if the site at least generated enough revenue to pay for the expenses of running it. Thus far it doesn't look like Google AdSense is the answer. I've had nearly 2000 ad unit impressions and haven't made the first penny yet. It's only been 3 days, but each morning I ask my wife - do you think I'll make my first penny today. ;)

Maybe there's a better solution than Google for advertising. I'm surprised there aren't blocks for managing side ads the way the top banner ad works. It's no big deal to add the html to a page, but you can't rotate through multiple ads to see which is going to work best that way.

I have bookmarked both sites for when I do want to build a new theme. I know I don't have the artistic talent to do it myself.

visit my sites
http://www.cavsworld.com
http://www.cafeshopper.com
http://celebrity.cafeshopper.com
http://www.1sies.com

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Re: my new site

2006/4/21 3:32
alandail
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Posts: 94
Since: 2006/4/18

well, I agree that I could use a better theme, but I think what I have is ok for now. Not great, just ok.

But right now I'm more interested in getting the functionality the way I want it. The two things I want to look at - fixing the polls block so it shows the result if you've already voted and I'd love to find a way to turn the main menu and/or the user menu into a horizontal menu at the top of the screen - it'd be great if submenus appear as you mouse over the menu items too. They take up more screen real estate than they should.

I think if I can get rid of some clutter and get the functionality where I want it, then worry about a new theme I can end up with a cleaner overall design in the end

visit my sites
http://www.cavsworld.com
http://www.cafeshopper.com
http://celebrity.cafeshopper.com
http://www.1sies.com

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Re: improving news spotlight

2006/4/21 2:59
alandail
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Posts: 94
Since: 2006/4/18

that did it - thanks - the only thing is that also wipes out my preferences for the blocks - it just took a minute to fix them, but in the future is there a way to update the templates without resetting the preferences?

visit my sites
http://www.cavsworld.com
http://www.cafeshopper.com
http://celebrity.cafeshopper.com
http://www.1sies.com

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Re: my new site

2006/4/21 2:47
alandail
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Posts: 94
Since: 2006/4/18

yea, that's what it is - I just gave it a little color. I thought that was the cleanest of the couple of themes that came standard.

How do people generally do themes? Do they just pick one from the theme library, or do they build their own? Maybe there's a tool for building themes? It was a pain to just change a couple of the colors.

Are there some themes you would suggest I look at? My concern right now is the main content doesn't seem to stand out.

visit my sites
http://www.cavsworld.com
http://www.cafeshopper.com
http://celebrity.cafeshopper.com
http://www.1sies.com

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