Re: [chassa2556] CMS Builder for Gallery
Hi Chassa,
I'd be happy to post the URL, but won't do that without our client's permission. However, even though Dave points out that this solution is experimental, it works like a charm for us. This client is very actively using 10 "albums" contained in a "gallery" all produced through CMS Builder.
I don't know whether this idea is relevant for your needs, but we researched just about every photo gallery option we could find, open source and otherwise. Installed several, but came back to CMS Builder because it is, hands down, the easiest to customize the look and feel of to slip into an existing design.
It seems that every gallery out there has a different template system applied (that is, assuming the appearance is configurable), and for long term, reliable solutions, we've found that it's much smarter and more cost-effective to go with Interactive Tools. This way we don't have to bend the carefully thought out, user-friendly design of the whole site to fit a specific product...galleries, etc.
How we did this was to simply present the thumbnails in a list page, each linked to a detail page with the image and lots of content. With the addition of the next and previous links for each detail page, it's perfect.
So, the interface only requires the artist to upload a new work for each new page, add details and content in a couple of additional text box fields, and publish. It's especially helpful that the detail pages can be re-ordered by dragging. Very nice features.
Hope this helps.
Happy Interactive Tools product user since 1999