Making a "title page" for an album
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inthedistance
Joined: 2006-03-24
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Posted: Fri, 2006-04-28 06:57
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Hi all, I'm searching for a way to make what is essentially a title page for an album. When you go to a museum show for a photographer or you buy a book, you'll see a representative image for the showing. Sometimes it's just a photo but other times it's styled or manipulated (PhotoShop) or even a composite image. (See the attachment for an old example from one of my galleries.) I'd also like to be able to write something on this page, or even have the description displayed, so people will be able to read something before getting to the thumbs. Again, it's an attempt at the experience of getting an exhibition brochure at a museum. These intermediate "plate" pages were easy to insert when hard-coding a gallery -- it added one click from seeing a list of albums to seeing its photos, but it's an essential step for many of us coming from the museum/gallery world. Is there a way to do this with the existing architecture of Gallery2.1? Many thanks,
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Not sure what you mean.
If the whole thing is inside Gallery then you could just make an album the 'Title Page' and then make a sub album for the actual album.
If you want it outside Gallery then create a static page that links to the album within Gallery.
Posts: 41
Thanks for the reply. Putting an image in an album's long description and then using sub-albums for the actual thumbs is close to what, but I want a page with just the image and my text, no thumbs or shopping cart stuff or anything else. I want to keep using the main.php page, with its dynamic listing of my albums. Selecting an album gets the visitor to this intro page. Then they "enter" the album as usual. It's like this:
Gallery2 (main.php) -> select an album -> see this title page and click 'enter' -> normal thumbs
I hope that makes sense. Is there a way to implement this?
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Yes thats it.
but do this, make albums then sub albums (the album is the title page and the sub album is the actual album).
It makes this:
Gallery2 (main.php) -> select an album (which is the title page) click 'The image' -> shows the normal thumbs
You can make a themes to show each level of album
In other words
You can create a theme for the intro pages (which is really an album, call it intro or something). Set it up with no cart or thumbs and apply it to the first page in the album (remember to uncheck the 'apply to sub albums' link')
Then apply your normal theme to your actual album (or sub albums) separately