Photo Gallery Show Down
The Photo Gallery Show Down at the March 2009 New England Joomla! User Group meeting was full of great information. Some of our User Group members showed the various photo galleries they have used in their Joomla! sites.
Romola Chrzanowski started things off by showing us where she has used Phat Fusion. She then went on to show us a photo gallery from Coffee Cup that she just put in a Joomla! article. This software is quick to load pictures because it only brings in one photograph at a time. She finds it to be quicker than Flash.
Meg McCarthy of Meg McCarthy Design showed her success with Simple Image Gallery Pro. Her recent site for A Candle in the Night, used Simple Image. Meg showed us how she used Simple Image Gallery Pro to help present the store's inventory on this Joomla! site.
4WEB's Jen Kramer McKibben shared RS Gallery2 that was used in their 2008 site launch of BYO.com. This brew your own site used the gallery to showcase the entries for their annual label design contest. Jen also shared a little info on the image editor alienation that deems a closer look by anyone working with photos on the web.
Andy Tarr of tarrconsulting.com took us through her recent experience using the Phoca Gallery. She showed us how she integrated it into a current work in progress, friendsofclapplibrary.org.
We wrapped up with Barb Ackemann of irislines.com showing us another recent launch susanbullriley.com. Barb also told everyone about the Joomla! extension imagesized that helped her to set the image size with in a blog.
Tidbit of the month: Barb Ackemann discovered that when creating a menu item or a module, you have the option to enter a "page class suffix" or "module class suffix".
If the suffix is entered with a dash i.e. -special which would then generate html code wrapping the module in a div with a class of .moduletable-special. This gives you a "handle" to style that module differently with CSS, BUT, it no longer has the properties of a normal module (which would have been just div.moduletable)
What she discovered was that entering your module class suffix beginning with a space generates a div with two classes: <div class="moduletable special"> and you have both the generic styles PLUS your handle for adding or overriding the generic styles. In fact, you could add multiple classes in the "suffix" field, starting with a space and separated by a space.
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