I would like to make a photo gallery that consists of a page of photo-thumbnails. When you click on a thumbnail, I would like another page to open that contains the following: A large view of the photo, and the following 3 buttons - a forward, a back, and an index, which would this: “forward” would move to the next large view photo, “back” would move to the previous large view photo, and “index” would move back to the page of thumbnails. Also, is there an easy way to add additional thumb-nails (and links to the corresponding large image at a later point? Can you provide instructions on how to do this? (Note that I do not want to have a roll-over effect where when you mouse over thumbnails, a larger image shows below.)
Is there a way to have HTML text be a hyperlink and NOT have it underlined?
Is there a way to make a page that sizes automatically as you add things to it (I’m thinking of question #1, where one would be adding additional thumbnails over time)?
Sounds like you’ve already figured it out. You’d create a new page, draw out a table (since you’re using Express) with as many Rows and Columns as you need, fill the table’s with the thumbnail images, create separate sub-pages with the large photo of each thumbnail, create the buttons to go back and forth between pages, and then wrap it up with a button to go back to the thumbnail page. Sounds easy enough.
Page 168 & 169 of the manual if viewed in Preview. It’s on page 149 in the Reference manual. You can search the manual in Preview for ‘hyperlink styles.’
Not without a hassle using Express, that’s my opinion. You read a lot on here about inline ‘box-model’ sites but it doesn’t sound like you’ll need something like that. You’ll just have to adjust it over time as you keep adding would be my suggestion.
Actually, Express only makes table-based layouts, which already do
this anyway. And you don’t need to draw them with the table tool, any
HTML box you draw on the page is already magically a part of the
invisible “mother of all layout tables” generated by Freeway whenever
you publish.
Walter
On Jul 31, 2009, at 5:27 PM, Dan J wrote:
Not without a hassle using Express, that’s my opinion. You read
a lot on here about inline ‘box-model’ sites but it doesn’t sound
like you’ll need something like that. You’ll just have to adjust it
over time as you keep adding would be my suggestion.
Actually, Express only makes table-based layouts, which already do
this anyway. And you don’t need to draw them with the table tool,
any HTML box you draw on the page is already magically a part of the
invisible “mother of all layout tables” generated by Freeway
whenever you publish.
That used to be the way I always made sites with pages of thumbnails;
it’s very fast to do: just make a graphic box, the right size, and put
it where you want to the top left corner of the page to be. Apply any
effects or actions to it, then go Item>Duplicate, and duplicate it,
say, five times across the page. Then select the row of six you just
made, go to Item>Duplicate again, and duplicate downwards 9 times and
bingo — 60 boxes all with the same frame, shadow, action etc. all just
waiting to be filled with thumbnails. Then the real work begins …
