I'm not sure what I'm messing up here, but see if you guys are smarter than I am...

Here's a gallery I'm working on for one of the other sites:
http://www.benjacobsenphoto.com/SimpleViewer/index.php
from http://www.benjacobsenphoto.com/

It opens to a nice choose album screen, and then it goes into the album just fine...
But the links on the top of the album page are wrong.
Which file do I edit to change those links and why are they not getting setup right from the simplevieweradmin module?

Here's links to the software if you haven't seen/used it before:
http://www.airtightinteractive.com/simpleviewer/
http://www.redsplash.de/projects/simplevieweradmin/

thanks,
Ben

OK, the gallery is working now... Now I just need to figure out how to get it into a page with a way back to the main site on top....

IE here's the gallery:
http://www.benjacobsenphoto.com/SimpleViewer/

but notice no links back now....

anyone good enough with HTML to know how to write a page so it's a frame with anything I want up top and that page in the bottom?

I know how to do it with dreamweaver!

I'll look at it tonight when I have a chance. I'm about halfway done getting my gallery converted to simpleviewer.
http://www.tardypizza.com/Simpleview...ewer/index.php

I'm going to ditch the main page with the goofy oddball thumbnails and make my own. Maybe that's what you should do too Ben, that way you have full control over your links and whatnot. Just have a main splash page that links to your sub-galleries. I'll show you what I mean if I get it done in the next few days.

ted

Simpleviewer is new to me, I'm going to have to look in to it.

Ted,
did you get anywhere with this yet?

Sorry, my friends took me out for a spot of drinking last night. I did nothing web related, but I did get hammered drunk.

I might have some time tonight.










For some more drinking.

ted

Originally Posted by tardypizza

but I did get hammered drunk.

I might have some time tonight.










For some more drinking.

ted

atta boy!

Ok, my beta simpleviewer gallery is up. Tell me what you think.

http://tardypizza.com/ and click on photos to get started.


ted

I think you need to tell me how you got the link to work!
Nice job. We still (both) need an image at the top but the link is a great start. Also I would see what you can do about all those folders that are shown in the address. At least rename one gallery. Not sure if anyone actually checking out the site for it's info would ever notice, but right now it's .../simpleviewer/simpleviewer/... which looks a bit weird.

Good work messing with the links though, DO TELL!!!

Ben

Yeah, I could basically take everything in Simpleviewer/simpleviewer/ and move it up a folder, the current setup was a result of not knowing how the simpleviewer would get along with the admin program. That's an easy cleanup. As far as adding an image to the top of the gallery....hmm that might take some tinkering. It could be as simple as finding the right place in the index.php to insert it, but if you ever add a new gallery in the admin it might rewrite the index.php, negating your change.

As far as the links, well, it's anything but clean html. Basically I just copied my homepage that I wrote 2 years ago and changed where the map.gif coordinates point to. In the simpleviewer folder there is an index.html (mine) and an index.php (the admin program's). Mine is the splash page that links to the admin php which then starts up the flash viewer gallery. Confuzzled yet?

If I could show you how it looks in an ftp program it would make a lot more sense.

I'll get crackin on inserting my tardypizza.com title into the top of the gallery page. Shouldn't be too hard. I'll post again when everything else is cleaned up as well.

ted

Arg, I need to get my website going, but I suck at that kind of stuff. I was thinking about a simpleviewer setup.

I need to try this simple viewer thing out

it's super easy to get something like this going:
http://www.awesomeroadtrips.com/Canada!/

all you need is a folder online somewhere that you have access too. Then DL this:
http://www.airtightinteractive.com/s...mpleviewer.zip
and this:
http://www.redsplash.de/pub/SimpleViewerAdmin-1.3.zip

then FTP both of those folders into the folder you want the gallery to be in on your site (IE for the above link, I FTPed the contents into the /Canada! folder) then delete the index.html from the simpleviewer folder and you're all set. Just goto that section of your site and the admin window will pop up. Log in with Admin/Admin (then be sure to change it) and load crap to your gallery.

Ben

Have you found an easy way to add pictures en masse to a gallery? When I did it the first time through the admin I had to individually upload each picture. Horribly tedious and time consuming. Then I figured out that you could just FTP all the pics to a folder (easy) then edit the gallery.xml file to reflect the pics (not so fun). But even that is time consuming.

nope, I just loaded each one by hand...

but I was thinking you could do it some way similar to how you do the basic simpleviewers... FTP then "build" it... But I haven't tried. Too much crap on my plate. The HDR how to is first on my list...

Yeah, that's what I meant by editing the gallery.xml file. First, upload all your pics to the desired folder. Then edit the gallery.xml file in notepad or the equivalent to match the names of the pics you uploaded. It looks like this for example:

Code:

	01wetroad (Medium).jpg
	


	02mechrisanddavid (Medium).jpg
	



	03cortezblue (Medium).jpg
	



etc etc etc...

This completely avoids using the admin interface and is a little quicker. But you still have to type each filename manually and correctly to avoid red X's.

see with the days setup I used I think going through admin was easier. My only issue was making sure I picked each file once and got all of them...

I took less than a half hour to UL ~200 pics and get all 9 galleries the way I wanted it. Typing out 200 file names for me would take almost as long I'd bet, even with heavy cutting and pasting. I just wish they had .zip support.

there's a plugin for wordsmith now:
http://www.benjacobsen.com/

neat, where do you get the plugin? Also - you sure have a lot of websites

what, only 5
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-simpleviewer/
I loves me some free software.

ooh simple viewer thingamabob for wordpress, i'm gonna have to try that out

OK, I've been playing with it some more. I have an issue with it as it is. Simpleviewer lets you FTP in a crap ton of shots and then build the gallery. simplevieweradmin makes you load each image one at a time... I have a few things where I really could use the simplicity of a FTP transfer (100s of images) but I also want them in separate galleries... So here's what I've come up with as a way to get it to work, it's worked once for me so far, I'll be testing this more over the weekend and writting up a real FAQ for anyone interested next week. Bear in mind I messed everything up ~5 times and had to delete the entire folder I was testing it in, so don't do this in a live environment just yet. Setup a test folder to play in....

Originally Posted by jacobsen1

so I figured something else out with simpleviewer and simplevieweradmin...

If you want to use admin, but you don't want to individually load the images, here's what you do (and I suggest you test this with a separate folder on your server as it took me a bunch of tries to get it right...)

1) FTP simpleviewer and simplevieweradmin into said folder (test_folder)
2) delete the simpleviewer index.html file
3) goto www.yoursite.com/test_folder
4) login and then change your password (as you would with a normal new setup)
5) create a new gallery (test_1)
6) upload a few pictures and get everything setup the way you want. (testview the gallery, make sure all settings are correct)
7) FTP the other photos you want in that gallery into the folder www.yoursite.com/test_folder/test_1/images
8.) ftp gallerybuilder.php (get it at the simpleviewer site) into the same folder
9) browse to http://www.yoursite.com/test_folder/...erybuilder.php (this will "build the gallery")
10)with your ftp software find the gallery.xml file step 9 just did
11) copy all the image crap from it.
12)browse to imagedata.xml and paste it in over the other image data
13) now goto that gallery and it should be there....

this is written for me to know how I just got it to work. I'll test it again over the weekend and verify it's working.

OK, i just realized ted has swapped over to galler2...

But yeah, combining what you set ted with editing the image info in the gallery.xml, I'm just using buildgallery.php to generate the same thing in another file, then cutting and pasting...

Originally Posted by jacobsen1

OK, i just realized ted has swapped over to galler2...

But yeah, combining what you set ted with editing the image info in the gallery.xml, I'm just using buildgallery.php to generate the same thing in another file, then cutting and pasting...

Not permanently, I just switched back to my already existing gallery because my parnets couldn't find it anymore and they wanted to show it off to their friends. Once I get Simpleviewer all setup just like I like, I'll switch back. I just am extremely short on time these days...

gotcha.

I'm working on making my www.benjacobsenphoto.com site into a gallery2 site as the whole thing. I'm working on it here:
www.benjacobsen.com/gallery2
I just need to get all the pages and verbiage dialed in, then get all the photos I want to try to sell organized. Once I get all that done I'll replace the site that's live. But like you I don't have enough time in the day... I went to bed at 2am last night because I got on a productive roll working on that and those sailing pics (IE playing with simpleviewer).

Eventually this is what I'll have:
www.benjacobsen.com blog software with galleries of random crap in the blog I need to get galleries working easily. Then need to be hotlinkable and easy to manage and add things to as well as easily integrated into articles... I'm thinking the nexGEN gallery software I'm using looks promising. I just need to play with it some more.

www.benjacobsenphoto.com gallery software with a way to purchase items (gallery2 is looking like it will work with some customizing)

www.awesomeroadtrips.com similar to benjacobsen.com with blog software with a gallery... But how? I think wordpress with nexGEN will work. I just need to get it done. I also want a better theme than the stock one or the ones on the WP site... I'm not paying for one though so I need to either find some decent free ones or make my own....

www.newschoolofphotography.com blog with forums and gallery2 for users. Also a gallery setup for posting pics to the blog. I think I have this set up the way I want it except I need to tweak my theme for the blog. My biggest issue right now is I want it wider. I also need to figure out how to get it to load faster (the banner at the top pops up blue, then loads AFTER all the other images...) I think that will just take using smaller images in the articles that can pop up easily...