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diegosanchez

Joined: 2009-12-07
Posts: 54
Posted: Mon, 2009-12-07 17:07

im new to this software and have found it rather bothersome. i have a website which currently uses Pixelpost but id like to change i over to Gallery2 but i want to keep my theme i have gotten for the Pixelpost pages, iv had a go with modding Hybrid template by editting the tpl files but not one thing has changed and its realy doing my head in. plus id rather display my albums like i have on my site.

can someone assist?

view my current design with pixelpost
www.nightlife-online.co.uk

view my current G2 site
www.fishbowldesign.co.uk/gallery2

it would be great if someone could design or point me in the right direction about which file hold the main theme as im honestly unsure

kindest regards
Donald
 
nivekiam
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Posts: 16504
Posted: Mon, 2009-12-07 17:41

Honestly, you might want to check out G3. I don't know what features your looking for, but G3 is a lot easier to customize than G2. If you know HTML, you should be able to dig into G3 pretty easily.

But if you want to dig into G2, here's some docs:
http://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery2:Editing_Templates
http://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery2:Themes

Each theme is different and doesn't use the same conventions. I see you're currently using Floatrix, so there is a theme.tpl (the main page) album.tpl (for album pages) photo.tpl (for the pages that contain only the photo). There's also theme.css which controls most of the look of everything.
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diegosanchez

Joined: 2009-12-07
Posts: 54
Posted: Mon, 2009-12-07 17:50

i had a look at those links earlier and what im unsure about is if i were to have my page like this quote below:

Quote:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Nightlife Online</title>
<link rel="service.feed" type="application/x.atom+xml" title="Nightlife Online - ATOM Feed" href="http://www.nightlife-online.co.uk/index.php?x=atom" />
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Nightlife Online - RSS Feed" href="http://www.nightlife-online.co.uk/index.php?x=rss" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" />
<meta http-equiv="content-type" name="keywords" content="Photoblog, Nightlife Online, <IMAGE_TITLE>, , Pixelpost" />
<meta http-equiv="content-type" name="description" content="Nightlife Online - PhotoBlog:<IMAGE_TITLE>, <IMAGE_NOTES_CLEAN>, " />

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="templates/supersimplesexy1.2/css/styles.css" />

<style type="text/css">
.albumWrapper {

height:120px;
text-align:center;
float:left;
/*background:#333;
border:1px solid #666;*/
margin:15px;
}
.albumWrapper2 {
margin:3px;
width:182px;
}
.albumWrapper a:link, .albumWrapper a:visited {
border:1px solid #666;
display:block;
}
.albumWrapper img {
border:3px solid #FFF;
}
.albumTitle {
font-size:80%;
padding:2px 0;
}
.albumTitle a:link, .albumTitle a:visited {
border:none;
}
.albumall { display:none; }
</style>

</head>
<body>
<table width="1102" align="center" bgcolor="#fff" ><tr><td>
<table width="100%" id="banner" bgcolor="#fff" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td width="50%" bgcolor="#fff"><a href="http://www.nightlife-online.co.uk/"><img src="/imgs/title.png"></a></td>

<td class="navlist" align="right" bgcolor="#fff">
<ul>
<li> <a href="/index.php?x=album&amp;PHPSESSID=009bbmf9e5uh24g2m5asekvek2"> VENUES</a></li>
<li> <a href="#" class="toggle"> ABOUT</a></li>

<li> <a href="/index.php?x=rss&amp;PHPSESSID=009bbmf9e5uh24g2m5asekvek2"> RSS</a></li>

</ul>
</td>
</tr></table>

<table width="1050" align="center" id="homecontainer" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td class="homesub" align="center" height="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<ALBUM THUMBNAILS>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="homesub" align="center" height="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td bgcolor="#fff">WHITE</td></tr>
<tr><td class="homesub"><a target='_blank' href='http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nightlife-online.co.uk%2Findex.php%3Fshowimage%3D&amp;t=Nightlife+Online-Authentic+photoblog+flavour%3A+'><img src='http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/rsrc.php/zAY6U/hash/cue6n9tz.ico' alt='facebook icon' title='Facebook'/></a> <a target='_blank' href='http://twitter.com/home?status=Nightlife+Online-Authentic+photoblog+flavour%3A+ http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nightlife-online.co.uk%2Findex.php%3Fshowimage%3D'><img src='http://a1.twimg.com/a/1249943174/images/favicon.ico' alt='twitter icon' title='Twitter' /></a></td></tr>
</table>

<table width="1040" align="center" id="footer"><tr><td>
<p>&copy; 2009 </p>

<p>Design by <a href="http://www.fishbowldesign.co.uk/">Fish Bowl Design</a> </p>

</td></tr></table>
</td></tr></table>
</body>
</html>

what code would i put in there to show up all of my albums along with a thumbnail from each album? i had a go earlier by moddifying a theme but when i installed it again everything went white.

is G3 even secure enough? all i wish to have is something i can skin to look like my current site but for it to display my categories of Venues and within each Venue will be dates and within each date will be images.

So if i took a picture id post it in an album called "Mon 07/12/2009" and it would be under a venue such as "Home"

thanks in advance
 
nivekiam
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Posts: 16504
Posted: Mon, 2009-12-07 18:56

You may want to have a look at this:
http://www.flashyourweb.com/staticpages/index.php?page=gallery2_embed-o-rator

Even though G3 is still in development, we're getting close to releasing a Release Candidate, so it's coming along. It may still be awhile before final release.
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diegosanchez

Joined: 2009-12-07
Posts: 54
Posted: Tue, 2009-12-08 02:27

Hi thanks very much for that link you are a star!

im currently hacking up the "classic" theme

Thanks so much!
 
diegosanchez

Joined: 2009-12-07
Posts: 54
Posted: Tue, 2009-12-08 02:27

ps. im having trouble locating the css for the bit that shows you the folders you are currently in such as GALLERY > DE JA VU > 08/12/09

i want to change this to view like my top menu but cant figure out this breadcrumbs css

any help would be great