New Template: Dark Matter

[patpro]

ramseyr: try to avoid binary transfer for text files. Let Transmit decide what transfert mode is best (text for text, binary for pictures).

[patpro]

Originally Posted by TheMarco

• enable / disable JS fade
• Adjustable speed of the fade
• Threee carousel mode: AJAX, standard thumbnail strip, no carousel at all

nice !

It allows photos UP TO 800 wide. Wider images would be ridiculously large in filesize resulting in a crappy user experience.

what about a small panoramic picture, say 900 or 1000px wide and 150 or 200px high. It will be far from large in filesize, but it's impossible to display in Dark Matter.

For the thumbnails I'm thinking of ways to allow more flexibility without resulting in a messy looking page. For now, I think when using the thumbnail cropper add-on you can almost always get a good representative 4:3 crop.

more important for me: it would be nice that Dark Matter won't enforce the 100*75px size for thumbnails in the carousel.

As long as I only click thumbnails in the carousel (http://www.patpro.net/photos/), they keep their real size (100*100), but if I browse the carousel by using the left or right arrow, thumbnails are resized to 100*75px.

[TheMarco]

Originally Posted by patpro

nice !



what about a small panoramic picture, say 900 or 1000px wide and 150 or 200px high. It will be far from large in filesize, but it's impossible to display in Dark Matter.

Agreed. That's the one limitation users of Dark Matter will have to live with. But still those panoramic shots would look ok in 800 wide as well I think.

more important for me: it would be nice that Dark Matter won't enforce the 100*75px size for thumbnails in the carousel.

As long as I only click thumbnails in the carousel (http://www.patpro.net/photos/), they keep their real size (100*100), but if I browse the carousel by using the left or right arrow, thumbnails are resized to 100*75px.

I will let go of the height requirement in thumbnails in a next release. The width will stay at the required 100 pixels because otherwise the carousel will get too complicated. But I suppose that's alright as it will allow you to use any aspect ratio you want.

[TheMarco]

Just posted 1.0b13

Changes:

• Changed Footer to accommodate more lines of text / links
• Made thumbnail height no longer a restriction to allow thumbnails in any aspect ratio. Only the 100px width restriction remains.
• Made JS fade configurable (on/off and fade speed)
• Made carousel configurable (AJAX browser, pixelpost standard strip, no carousel at all)

Let me know if everything works alright with this release.

You can see some of the above in action on my photoblog ( http://www.i-marco.nl/photoblog/ )

I set my thumb size to 100x67 (as I have a digital SLR which takes 3:2 pics instead of 4:3).
I also changed the default fade speed to 0.7 sec which looks nicer than what it used to be.

[ramseyr]

I finally got this template to work, I had to manually set the NAV_HEIGHT, not sure why but for some reason my server or install of Pixelpost is not behaving properly. I also found another interesting thing if I use any of the templates, Simple-Vision, Simple any of the ones included the image does not show up. the rest of the page renders properly but the images is not there only a small box. This only happens in IE (latest version) on a windows machine. I can't figure it out if I use any other browser on windows it works fine. The only template that will render properly image and all under this scenario is DarkMatter.
Any ideas as to what is going on?
Thanks

[TheMarco]

@ramseyr The problem is that NAV_HEIGHT isn't always the same. It depends on how high the image is. As said before, your server isn't passing on the image height which is why that value gets blanked out.

Did you check whether you're running as apache module or as CGI? If it's apache module try switching to CGI mode in your DH control panel. I'm running on DH myself so it should be possible to get it to work for you as well!

[ramseyr]

Thanks for the help I am at a lost of how to change the PHP setting to run as CGI. I don't think you have an option of running as a module. I could be wrong though. I looked through the DP Panel and checked the forums and Wiki but no luck.

Originally Posted by TheMarco

@ramseyr The problem is that NAV_HEIGHT isn't always the same. It depends on how high the image is. As said before, your server isn't passing on the image height which is why that value gets blanked out.

Did you check whether you're running as apache module or as CGI? If it's apache module try switching to CGI mode in your DH control panel. I'm running on DH myself so it should be possible to get it to work for you as well!

[ramseyr]

I just got an email from DH support and by default PHP is run as CGI. So now I'm really confused as to why I am having these problems.

Originally Posted by ramseyr

Thanks for the help I am at a lost of how to change the PHP setting to run as CGI. I don't think you have an option of running as a module. I could be wrong though. I looked through the DP Panel and checked the forums and Wiki but no luck.

[ramseyr]

Ok, I figured it out believe it or not it was the path to my photos that was causing all the trouble. I figured it out from another post about images not showing up in IE. The path contained too much info when I changed it to ../images/ everything started working. Even the problems with all the templates not working. Go figure!
Thanks for the help.
Ramsey

[oneeyedman]

I was not able to load the template successfully... when I instal dm_support.php it seems to corrupt my addons control page...nothing shows.