Comments on: New photo galleries

By: Faruk Ates

Faruk Ates — Wed, 04 May 2005 12:33:32 +0000

I’m late, I know, but I wanted to say that I think these are some great photos, for sure. Very high quality.

As far as the gallery system goes, I only have a two small gripes which I’m not sure you care to address, but:

1) small thumbnails; I can understand the need to keep them small for bandwith’s sake (and such), but these are too tiny in my opinion.
2) so. many. separate. pages! And comments in a pop-up? Definitely not pleasant. :|

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sun, 24 Apr 2005 02:19:08 +0000

Aye, laddy. Wicked albums. I’m in the same boat as Noel; I’ve got a MT blog set aside especially for this, if and when you can update us on the template/code! (Alas, my poor coding-defunct mind. It does not work.)

Am thrilled to hear you’re willing to put the inner workings of your web-doings up, documented like this! It means so much for us ‘copy-and-paste’ coders. :)

By: Noel Perlas

Noel Perlas — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 03:35:37 +0000

Hi Doug, any updates on the template? I can’t wait to put up my own photo gallery too.

By: paul

paul — Fri, 15 Apr 2005 16:46:22 +0000

These Galleries are great! I’m just beginning to put up a web photo gallery so I can share my pictures with the world and your design is so professional. I would be willing to donate/buy if you made the coda available.

Thanks to this site, I am trying the Photon plugin for iPhoto 5. It makes uploading images to my (temporary) photo blog a snap! It is only missing one thing that I can see – an easy way to select a subdirectory for individual pictures . As it is, the directory selection is buried a little deep behind the configure button for my Wife to take advantage of it. She helps out in posting and I don’t want to go back and
clean up my directories (and posts).

–paul

By: B Typative

B Typative — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 21:51:11 +0000

From the photography to the page layouts, your gallery is a total work of art.
Bravo.
Very neat setup.

By: todd

todd — Sat, 19 Mar 2005 19:27:25 +0000

great design! like you, i would like to limit the number of photos displayed on each category archive page to 25 photos. i’ve implemented mt-paginate, and it works, but i have been unsuccessful in displaying this information at the top and bottom of the image listing. how do you achieve this useful navigation on your gallery?

By: Noah J.

Noah J. — Wed, 02 Mar 2005 02:14:24 +0000

Doug,

Man i LOVE your image gallery. I have been looking for something like this for some time now. I would love to be able to use that on my site if you offered it for download… i am an amateur/semi-professional photographer and web designer and i am just in awe of the way your gallery looks. Could you PLEASE put the code up online or email it to me?

Also, I have been to New Zealand too. Dont you think it is one of the most gorgeous places on earth? I have a shot just like yours from christchurch (the one of the sunrise), except it was from Queenstown and was a sunset. The colors are almost exactally the same.

Thanks so much. Keep shootin’ awesome photos and developing and awesome website.

-Noah

By: fuzzy_logic

fuzzy_logic — Sat, 26 Feb 2005 22:18:49 +0000

Thanks for sharing!

By: Benjamin

Benjamin — Thu, 24 Feb 2005 19:43:44 +0000

I’m in love with the galleries! Your design is amazing, and I’d pay some money to get the code so I can implement the galleries on my site as well!

Cheers!

By: Brano

Brano — Wed, 23 Feb 2005 13:47:04 +0000

Very nice gallery! But there is one small problem — I’m not able to click to the comment link in the photo detail on my Firefox (PC, Win2K). The cursor does not change to a pointer like on standard anchors, and even when I click, nothing happens. I tried it with the evil IE6 and there it works as it should.

By: John Weston

John Weston — Sat, 19 Feb 2005 22:46:26 +0000

I’m so very close to understanding how the show x at once and next/prev x links were done with MT, yet I’m so very far…

Does anyone (Doug?) know how to accomplish that sort of thing? I’m running into the roadblock of having the MT tags rendered before any PHP happens; otherwise it would be easy. Tried fiddling with MTPaginate, but couldn’t seem to get it to play nice with my thumbnails.

In any case, I love the gallery, Doug — it has been an inspiration and a motivator!

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 15 Feb 2005 22:10:32 +0000

I would LOVE to see this packeaged up for a download! I would definitely pay a few bucks to see it. You have created a very elegant solution for sharing photos-thanks for the inspiration.

By: Dewey

Dewey — Fri, 11 Feb 2005 16:43:22 +0000

Great effort… would be nice to see more details on the implementation, but at the same time then we’d all look the same, yes?

Also:
On the Galeries page, I selected “All” from the dropdown, and clicked the button. I receeived the above error, and unstyled (but complete) content. Browser version: IE6.0.2800.1106CO.

Just thought you’d like to know.

Thanks for sharing the work and the photos.
Dewey

By: Davies

Davies — Wed, 09 Feb 2005 03:51:49 +0000

Hey, just wondering if there was anything PHP out there that does it like Photon. I’m using WordPress and Windows(not on a Mac!).This photo gallery makes me sooo envy of those Mac freaks! Please help!

By: Carl Jonard

Carl Jonard — Tue, 08 Feb 2005 18:59:35 +0000

I recently discovered the free iPhoto plug-in Keyword Assistant., and I've found it absolutely indispensible. I've gone from using a couple generic keywords to tagging all my photos with multiple specific tags, Flickr-style, and it just takes a few keystrokes to do it. You must check it out.

By: Julian Merrow-Smith

Julian Merrow-Smith — Sun, 06 Feb 2005 22:29:02 +0000

Yes, thanks Douglas, it’s a very complicated business having a web site, ( I am a Painter), where the content is image based and where images could come in any shape, orientation or indeed style. Add to that the neccesity of text in order to be noticed by search engines and the natural design sensibility to have a coherent style whilst displaying work which may be portrait, still life or landscape and you have quite a problem. Photos somehow seem to work more easily than paintings perhaps partly due to uniformity of size. I will have good look at your techniques as I “re-design” my site. Many thanks.

By: Ryan Thrash

Ryan Thrash — Sun, 06 Feb 2005 15:59:32 +0000

Great interpretation of the old analog slide-sorting-on-a-lightbox routine. Well done!

As numerous others inquired, are you considering donating the design for the general good of galleries ‘net wide? I’d love to see it ported to some other CMSes.

By: David Collantes

David Collantes — Thu, 03 Feb 2005 18:56:20 +0000

I would use it and cheerfully donate for the package. Excellent work!

By: Christopher

Christopher — Thu, 03 Feb 2005 01:47:13 +0000

To plagiarize Guinness Beer – “Brilliant!”

By: Alderete

Alderete — Wed, 02 Feb 2005 05:08:13 +0000

As usual, it’s a clean, lovely design, and you’ve thought the usability things through, too. This might be the nicest automatically generated photo gallery I’ve seen on the internet.

I really do hope you’ll package things up and make them available. Failing that, it would be terrific if you could tell us what we can and can’t use, should we download the elements ourselves. But I would certainly pay $20 +/- to get the templates, graphics, etc., along with permission to reuse.

(Also: My own personal wish list would go beyond your current solution, so that your solution and templates could be used within WordPress rather than MovableType. Perhaps you could find someone to work with you on that!)