I have a client who wants a CMS in his website allowing him to constantly update a gallery of images. This would ideally work in either of 2 ways:
Where clicking on a thumbnail of the image would open up a larger version of the image in a new window (like “spawn new window” action). Obviously both the thumbnail and larger image need to be editable by the client.
Where thumbnail of image is a rollover which then displays larger image in the same page either on thumbnail click or hover (like “show/hide image” action).
Is Webyep capable of this? From first impressions it seems not, but if anyone has any ideas they would be very much appreciated.
WebYep can definately handle your first option. The settings in the image action do exactly what you describe.
Using the WebYep Image action To create a gallery will mean either positioning image “placeholders” on a layout that has a fixed number of images, or creating a “loop” that can be expanded with unlimited images but with a less defined image arrangement. The fixed layout option gives you more control over grid size and placement in your layout. It is possible to use the “loop” option to create a grid but in my experience is a more difficult to control how added images will affect it.
Your second option is more problematic, and not likely to be possible, as you will have to use the “Target Show/Hide Image” action for the pop up rollover idea, but unfortunately that requires that you already have the image file available at the time you apply the action which pretty much negates the point of a CMS.
Addendum: WebYep Image items being undefined by design are not workable with some other javascript niceties and effects such as the Carousel because of the need to know the image file name and location at the time the page is laid out. Uncle Walt may have a trick up his sleeve to get around that, but i’m not aware of one.
Hi Zac
Yes both are possible though I haven’t down the second variant for some time, so I will look through all my example and send it through.
The first one is now possible to do with in two different ways, the first is the normal thumbnail setting within webyep and the other is using a sort of spawn new window without any normal window items address field. Again I will end through an example
I just re-read my reply … what a load of rubbish!!! … my 10 year old son could have replied in a more coherent manner. Unfortunately that’s what 9 days off does…
I forget how to use the mac, how to spell and how to construct a sentence.
So for all those who have not understood what my gibberish was all about here it is again in English rather than Klingon
Hi Zac
Yes both are possible though I haven’t done the second variant for some time now, so I will look through all my examples and send it through to you.
The first example is now possible to do with two different approaches.
Is the normal thumbnail setting within webyep and the other
is using a sort of ‘spawn new window’ without any normal window items like an address field, by the use of a little javascript and again I will send through an example.
Thanks Max. I too look forward to the examples as I continually have clients asking to do this. Up until now I haven’t taken the time to work through it.
Thanks again,
Jacob
On Apr 21, 2008, at 3:59 AM, max wrote:
I just re-read my reply … what a load of rubbish!!! … my 10 year old son could have replied in a more coherent manner. Unfortunately that’s what 9 days off does…
I forget how to use the mac, how to spell and how to construct a sentence.
So for all those who have not understood what my gibberish was all about here it is again in English rather than Klingon
Hi Zac
Yes both are possible though I haven’t done the second variant for some time now, so I will look through all my examples and send it through to you.
The first example is now possible to do with two different approaches.
Is the normal thumbnail setting within webyep and the other
is using a sort of ‘spawn new window’ without any normal window items like an address field, by the use of a little javascript and again I will send through an example.
ok finnally found the examples …
number one example is using the soon to be released webyep action which will allow you to choose a popup window but this window is not based on its thumbnail:
if you look at this example even though I have whacked it together quickly I have managed to create all these pages and all these images, thumbnails and pop-ups windows from just two freeway pages. One of these pages contains 1 loop with three webyep images and a menu and then on the other page I created the larger webyep image area which the thumbnail would target. I could have constructed 100’s of images and dozens of pages all from the same 2 initial pages within freeway.
The second example is really, really old… but it does show how it could work. I probably would not construct it in exactly the same way anymore but it does show that you can use the slave show hide layer action along with webyep
zacbest’s original number 2 example specifically mentioned a rollover and reveal effect. Your examples are good but do not address that particular issue.
to make a rollover and then a variation of the the second so it triggered the large image on click rather than on hover.
I am in the middle of rebuilding my whole site so lots of the links and demo that I used to have are all a bit messed up at the moment so excuse the dead links on downloads
if this what you need then I can create a simple example combing some of these effects
speak soon max
Hi Chuck
The example I posted was a very very very old example and I only ever made
the first three thumbnails active
Once I have a bit more time I will reconstruct this again
Max… :o)
On 23/04/2008 17:57, “chuckamuck” email@hidden wrote:
On 22 Apr. 2008, 5:51 am, max wrote:
hi Chuck…Yep your correct what you would need to do is a combination of
this effect
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Ok this is all great and many thanks to max - but just to confuse everyone even further… is it possible to have image captions below the image, or even as the page title?
Ok this is all great and many thanks to max - but just to confuse everyone even further… is it possible to have image captions below the image, or even as the page title?
Lightbox is a good example of this.
Yep, that functionality is built in to Max’s action.
One correction to my previous comment, it is possible to use WebYep image items with Walter’s great Carousel action.