RE: [support] Image/Photo Galleries - recommendations of modules
I don't think these modules will facilitate batch uploading. Properly configured image assist should display an icon below each text area to facilitate the adding of an image that has already been uploaded using the "create image" menu. (i.e. creating a node of content type image). The icon looks a bit like the plus sign and an image. A demo can be found with by clicking on the submit a poem link on my drupal demo site: http://www2.evergreen.edu/dave Dave ________________________________ From: support-bounces@drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of Bruce Whealton Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2006 9:51 AM To: support@drupal.org Subject: [support] Image/Photo Galleries - recommendations of modules Hi, I'm wanting to use Drupal for a site where a company will want to display it's projects. What we'd have would be photographs, image files that would contain a few photographs and some captions to explain things to the visitor obviously. I also want a tool for including image files in a posting. I've mentioned this on topics that were related but different, so I thought I'd write with a focus on using images. First is choosing the tools to use, the modules. Do I use just one? For example, I see a module for Gallery, one for Image and Image_assist, image import, and image_filter. Some of these seem like they would work not all alone but in conjunction with others. Some features that I'd like and which module seems to address it, are as follows: 1) allow batch uploading by the customer, on their site, of a zip or other compre ssed file, that will be unzipped by the system. 2) Allow captioning for each image 3) Add images to story/page/other nodes Qquestion 1>So, #1 and #2 seem like they would be met by either Gallery, Image or Image Import. #3 maybe is what I would need for the inline images. But should I use Image or Gallery or Image Import but not both or all three? Is there another module worth considering? I'm just trying to get an idea how to not duplicate and confuse others by having two or more modules that do the same thing. Question 2> referring to #3 above, I have image_assist installed but I'm not seeing where on the add/page or add/story forms I would see the place to include a photograph into the posting. Not to sound ignorant, but how does "Image Assist" assist a person adding a node with one or more photographs? I do see atta ch file but that's there without Image Assist. Please clear this up for me or help Sorry I'm so verbose... Q3> Should I consider other modules for working with or using images? Thanks, Bruce +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Bruce Whealton - Webmaster/Designer/publisher/Writer admin@TriangleWebServices.com http://trianglewebservices.com/ Street Exposure - Street Newspaper http://wordsalad.net/StreetExposure/ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ________________________________ Yahoo! Mail <http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/virusmail/*http://mail.yahoo.co m> - Helps protect you from nasty viruses.
Dave, This is cool, thanks. I have been using the flexinode Poem for a while now. I overlooked the plus sign and image. So, will the system find every image that is added using the create image menu with Image_assist, I mean it will find them no matter how the file directories are setup with image_assist? Or what tool are you using in that link to store and organize photographs/images? Bruce "Metzler, David" <MetzlerD@evergreen.edu> wrote: I don't think these modules will facilitate batch uploading. Properly configured image assist should display an icon below each text area to facilitate the adding of an image that has already been uploaded using the "create image" menu. (i.e. creating a node of content type image). The icon looks a bit like the plus sign and an image. A demo can be found with by clicking on the submit a poem link on my drupal demo site: http://www2.evergreen.edu/dave Dave --------------------------------- From: support-bounces@drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of Bruce Whealton Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2006 9:51 AM To: support@drupal.org Subject: [support] Image/Photo Galleries - recommendations of modules Hi, I'm wanting to use Drupal for a site where a company will want to display it's projects. What we'd have would be photographs, image files that would contain a few photographs and some captions to explain things to the visitor obviously. I also want a tool for including image files in a posting. I've mentioned this on topics that were related but different, so I thought I'd write with a focus on using images. First is choosing the tools to use, the modules. Do I use just one? For example, I see a module for Gallery, one for Image and Image_assist, image import, and image_filter. Some of these seem like they would work not all alone but in conjunction with others. Some features that I'd like and which module seems to address it, are as follows: 1) allow batch uploading by the customer, on their site, of a zip or other compre ssed file, that will be unzipped by the system. 2) Allow captioning for each image 3) Add images to story/page/other nodes Qquestion 1>So, #1 and #2 seem like they would be met by either Gallery, Image or Image Import. #3 maybe is what I would need for the inline images. But should I use Image or Gallery or Image Import but not both or all three? Is there another module worth considering? I'm just trying to get an idea how to not duplicate and confuse others by having two or more modules that do the same thing. Question 2> referring to #3 above, I have image_assist installed but I'm not seeing where on the add/page or add/story forms I would see the place to include a photograph into the posting. Not to sound ignorant, but how does "Image Assist" assist a person adding a node with one or more photographs? I do see atta ch file but that's there without Image Assist. Please clear this up for me or help Sorry I'm so verbose... Q3> Should I consider other modules for working with or using images? Thanks, Bruce +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Bruce Whealton - Webmaster/Designer/publisher/Writer admin@TriangleWebServices.com http://trianglewebservices.com/ Street Exposure - Street Newspaper http://wordsalad.net/StreetExposure/ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ --------------------------------- Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. -- [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ] +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Bruce Whealton - Webmaster/Designer/publisher/Writer admin@TriangleWebServices.com http://trianglewebservices.com/ Street Exposure - Street Newspaper http://wordsalad.net/StreetExposure/ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ --------------------------------- Yahoo! Mail Use Photomail to share photos without annoying attachments.
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