New User:few clarifications reqd.

[jitu9968]

I am new user of pixelpost..this is really an excellent product.
I just installed my photoblog at http://jitu.info/pblog3 in just 10 minutes

I have few clarifications

1) Photoblog shows properly in IE6 but not properly in firefox 1.0, image is overlapped. Please advice.
2) Normally my images are 1024x768... Where do i have make changes in the template... or is there any php scrpipt which autosize my image to adjust to pixelpost templats.
3) Are there any add-ons available for Slideshow etc.

Thanks in advance...waiting for the reply.
Jitendra Chaudhary

welcome! It is good to hear that you like Pixelpost!

your questions:

1) Photoblog shows properly in IE6 but not properly in firefox 1.0, image is overlapped. Please advice.

same in OPERA

the reason for this is that Firefox does interprete faulty CSS as faulty whereas IE tries to interprete faulty CSS, we could discuss this ideologically :lol:

I had your URL validated, using http://validator.w3.org/check?verbos...u.info/pblog3/ for the HTML and at http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/v...u.info/pblog3/ for the CSS and there is enough to correct

so it is no wonder that firefox shows problems
but if you correct the errors you will get a good result, I am sure

if you check your website in Firefox you will find a lot of help with the developer extensions of that browser

2) Normally my images are 1024x768... Where do i have make changes in the template... or is there any php scrpipt which autosize my image to adjust to pixelpost templats.

well, the script does not define the size of the photos,

- but you can modifiy the template which you use by adding the attributes "width="1024" height="786" to the img-tag in the content-div

- you can modify the CSS-definition "#content" by adding width to this definition

but please keep in mind that photos which are so big will not show completely in the browser, the visitors will have to scroll to get the full image, that could be hindering the experience of the photos

I recommend to use a image size which fits onto the screen.

It is always better to trim the photo with software like Photoshop or Paintshop Pro or Irfanview before you upload them then to do this with routines..

3) Are there any add-ons available for Slideshow etc.

you will find all available addons at http://www.pixelpost.org/index.php?x...amp;page=addon but in the moment there is no slideshow

as for the slideshow, it is very easy to integrate slideshows in your template, take for example PHPSlideShow v0.6.2 written by Greg Lawler
from http://www.zinkwazi.com/pages.php?page_name=scripts

I installed it and included it with the following options in my image-template:

<script language='javascript' type='text/javascript'>
  function pop(){
  	// change this to point to your PHPSlideshow URL
	var your_slideshow_url="images/phpslideshow.php?directory=."
	// change the width and height of your window here to fit your images.
	winpops=window.open(your_slideshow_url,'','width=430,height=340,left=100,top=100,scrollbars= 	no,dependent=yes,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,toolbar=no')
  }
</script>
<a href="javascript:pop()">PHPSlideshow</a></div>

and it shows quite nice

[pixelpunk]

Regarding 1 and 2.

The default template are not very good. From the beginning it was the intention that everybody should write up and create their own site/look/design, that didn't happen however and many, many people are happy with just the default ones. And the default ones are not very good. I need to make them better, but it's boring.

Templates are nothing more than pure html, so do whatever changes you want or write your own from scratch.

// punk