Hi
Is there a way of going from a link directly to the all thumbnails view in Bloxx, bypassing the single thumbnail?
Thanks
Paul
Paul Carter
Hi Paul,
I don’t know how to do that, but I think it would involve editing the JavaScript that Exhibeo outputs for this gallery.
I notice that there is a showThumbs option that does the opposite of what you’re asking for. If this is set to false (instead of true), the gallery doesn’t display the intermediate thumbnails view: clicking on the single thumbnail displays the first image.
Thank you for that quick response, Jeremy. I very much want to go to the multiple thumbnails page on clicking a link.
The single thumbnail is of course a link. My original idea was to make the thumbnail fill the square space in a Xway Portfolio template box, but I haven’t been able to find a way to make that work, so I was thinking I could create a standard link from the portfolio box. That is easy enough, but I am not happy going first to the single thumbnail and then on to the multiple set. I think it makes the navigation a little confusing.
You could look at the Thumblie theme, which displays multiple thumbnails (similar to what you’re asking for).
The single thumbnail links to its associated image, as you can see if you Control/Right-click on it in Safari and choose Open Link in New Tab. Clicking directly on it triggers JavaScript code, which bypasses the link and opens the multiple thumbnails view.
Hi Jeremey,
I did consider Thumblie but was a little put off by the its navigation controls bottom right of the preview pages. I first of all read all three arrows as slide show controls. Soon found that the left /right arrows were for manual scrolling but still wished that they had been separated from the start slide show arrow for clarity. I also did not like how the caption and buttons had to be pushed into the corners and be small to avoid them overlapping with the image in some circumstances.
I wanted a white background for the viewing the previews. In Thumblie this gives a shadow effect that cannot be turned off. I prefer the simplicity of no shadow.
In general I preferred the clear layout of the Bloxx thumbnail page and its preview pages. I especially liked the clarity of clicking the X on the preview page to close it and then having an X on the thumbnails page to close that page so you can return to the home page without using the browser back arrow.
However, in the end I do prefer the large images in the Thumblie previews and will probably go with it for the 40+ galleries I have to make.
Thanks for helping me work through all the pros and cons.
Paul
Do you see the shadow when you view the gallery outside of Exhibeo?
I can see box-shadow in the gallery CSS file, but I don’t see it when I view a gallery outside of Exhibeo (I think this is because the parent container has overflow set to hidden).
Update: I don’t see the shadow in galleries that are published via Xway. This seems to be because there is some kind of interaction between the JavaScript that Thumblie publishes and Xway’s use of box-sizing: border-box. It’s possible to get the shadow to appear in galleries that are output by Xway if you add the following CSS Markup:
.xb-thumblie_image-container { overflow: visible !important }
Conversely, if you’re outputting a Thumblie gallery from Freeway, you should be able to hide the shadow by adding the following in Page Markup (before </head>):
<style>
.xb-thumblie_image-container { overflow: hidden !important }
</style>
I exported the gallery to html and uploaded it directly to the server via Fetch in order to save the long upload time I was getting each time I uploaded via Xway. I will have another go at exporting via Xway. I will get back to you later today.
Your observations may behind another related issue. In my experiments with Bloxx I turned off thumbnail titles. They did not appear in Xway web view, but they did show when the gallery was uploaded to the site via the ftp client.
Yes, when I export to Xway, insert the component and upload from Xway the shadow disappears. Thank you.