can/how to customize look of albums

ruvy

Joined: 2002-10-16
Posts: 99
Posted: Fri, 2002-10-25 07:08

I have finally got the albums to work and put some images too but the gallery looks very generic I need to find how to:
1. compose images and texts in album pages in a none grid / free form of thumbnails
2. place images on the side and not the bottom of images
3. place mylogo and company name at the top
4.integrate a gallery in my site html template
5. include fogin texts (Hebrew, Arabic, Italian) alongside English

Hope I have asked enough :smile: , sorry if it is too much but unless I can accomplish most of this I may not be able to use gallery which will make me very sad as it seems to be a great potential in it.

Thanks

Ruvy
 
beckett
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Joined: 2002-08-16
Posts: 3474
Posted: Fri, 2002-10-25 07:26

Hi ruvy... you're asking for a lot! Everything you want to do will be fullly feasible with Gallery 2... so hang tight.

As for the immediate future:
1. Gallery lays images out in tables in an orderly fashion. You'd have a tough time manipulating the code to have them "free form" as you call it.
2. Do you mean captions? You can put them side-by-side by editing the gallery/html_wrap/inline_* files (just copy the files in there and remove the ".default").
3. and 4. The other files in gallery/html_wrap are header and footer files for this exact purpose.
5. Not yet. Gallery's <head> declarations are embedded into each file :sad:. This will work better in Gallery 2, where you will be able to specify character encodings in your layout, and plug-and-play other languages (once someone writes them, of course!).

Good luck with your site.
-Beckett (beck@beckettmw.com)
 
ruvy

Joined: 2002-10-16
Posts: 99
Posted: Fri, 2002-10-25 16:24

Thanks - this is very helpful - you gave me a direction - may call again for clarification if I get stuck - hope its OK

thanks again

Ruvy
 
maxim303

Joined: 2002-10-31
Posts: 2
Posted: Thu, 2002-10-31 19:26

which of the included files should I edit (and wher in the file itself) f i want *all* the pages of galery to include a specific .css file? Also I'd like to include a footer. There are a lot of diff header/footer files in that dir, and I'd like to edit only one of each for header/footer. Please let me know.
Thank you,
Max
 
Gaile

Joined: 2002-07-20
Posts: 1301
Posted: Sun, 2002-11-03 08:19

Max, if you look thru the html-wrap folder you'll see that there is a pair of header/footer files for the main page, the album page and the individual photo pages (as well as for the slideshow, search, etc). In order to have them look the same you'd need to add the same info to the header/footer files for each of these different pages.

It's all there - you just need to look at what the files are called and it will start to make sense.

If you really can't make sense of it, post again and I'll see what I can do to help out.