web pages, templates, captions

mrn8tural · Joined: 09 Apr 2004 Posts: 7

Maybe just a comment, but I would like to make some web galleries with something more meaningful showing under the thumbnail than the file name, and some more customized info in the larger view.

Yes, I know that one can create their own templates. I've read the "about templates.html" file, but I'm not familiar with html coding. This is all way over my head. It sure would be nice if they could make this stuff simpler for those of us who don't have the expertise to run with those instructions. ....or perhaps simpler instructions, oriented towards the bozos among us might make this more accessible.

BTW what is BBCode, which can be enabled or disabled in these messages?

Tim Plumb · iView staff Joined: 18 Mar 2004 Posts: 72

BBCode is phpBB's (the software that runs this forum) method of allowing posts to contain styling (bold, italic, links, lists etc.) without the need to insert any HTML.
The nine buttons under the 'Message body' section will allow you to insert these.

jeanine · Joined: 19 Apr 2004 Posts: 17

I have the same need as mrn8tural....anyone out there that can help guide us (or point us to someone who can) to add some comments/annotations to our web galleries?

thanks in advance!

Jeanine

Jim · Joined: 01 Apr 2004 Posts: 120 Location: Portland, OR, USA

This isn't a good answer to your question, but maybe it will lead us somewhere that will help us all...

Unfortunately customizing iView's web templates requires some minimal level of comfortability with HTML -- and for many people even a basic HTML page can be pretty intimidating. But I suspect there are quite a few of us out here (like me) who have sufficient novice-level HTML understanding to do the kind of things I know you are asking about. We have customized the basic templates (using tools like BBEdit, Dreamweaver, etc.) to add in captions where we want them to display, and often removing other elements we didn't like.

So here's the thing... it isn't clear (at least to me) how best to just share those 'slightly modified' templates with you and others. And I'd be happy to share them. I suppose I'm reluctant to submit them to iView's template sharing section because they aren't really different or new templates -- just tweaked versions of what somebody else spent considerable time to make. (Feels like plagiarizing, y'know?)

Anybody out there have any good ideas here?

-- Jim

jimhere · Joined: 01 Apr 2004 Posts: 389 Location: Cambridge Mass

Other forums with of this type often have a way to attach files (one could attach a .zip of template plus assets). But I don't see that here. Otherwise we could email or post these files... If you don't want the whole world downloading your stuff, give the link in PM below.

Jim · Joined: 01 Apr 2004 Posts: 120 Location: Portland, OR, USA

jimhere · Joined: 01 Apr 2004 Posts: 389 Location: Cambridge Mass

Actually through these forums I was able to send someone a .zip of a gallery yesterday. And the Fench version of this site seems to have downloadable gallery templates:
http://iview.free.fr/products/mediapro2/html_templates.html
(I guess I didn't realize that PM wasn't hooked up yet.)

jeanine · Joined: 19 Apr 2004 Posts: 17

Thanks jimhere! That link is a great find! I might just figure out some basic HTML playing around with these templates :lol:

Jeanine

BTW this forum and participants have been very helpful....appreciate your time and willingness to share your knowledge :wink:

Guest · Posted: Wed Apr 21, 2004 10:23 pm Post subject:

jimhere · Joined: 01 Apr 2004 Posts: 389 Location: Cambridge Mass

hmmm. Since PM is not hooked up, I was contacted by other means (don't want to post my email), and was able to forward my .zip.
So heres the alternative:
http://homepage.mac.com/jimpogo/download/VerticalFrameClean.zip

Guest · Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2004 2:35 pm Post subject:

jimhere · Joined: 01 Apr 2004 Posts: 389 Location: Cambridge Mass

I set the thumbs to display 3 x 6 at (I think) 48 pixels each:
http://homepage.mac.com/jimpogo/pages/wedding_picts/

Guest · Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2004 5:31 pm Post subject:

Looks nice!

Tip: If you set the iView Directives in your HTML to those values it will come up that way by default in the Make HTML dialog box. Then users won't have to guess what parameters you designed for...



Thanks again!