cpe gallery - bringing it into main site
Jul 23 2007 13:28
When we were doing the anti-cpe protests blog ( http://libcom.org/blog/cpe-france ) we also built up a big image gallery of photos at http://libcom.org/gallery
Since then, we've got a new system, and /gallery is the only bit of the site not integrated with it. So it'd be good to move that stuff over.
There's over 1500 images in total. We don't need to save all of them, but it'd be good to keep the best ones, with links to the original sources.
You can now add an image gallery by going to create content >> images - this is restricted to people who've offered to help out in the past for now (to save us becoming imageshack), but if you fancy helping with this at all, let us know on here and we'll enable it for you.
To do a gallery, these are the steps:
open one of the galleries in: http://libcom.org/gallery/v/news/france-cpe/
in another tab or window, go to create content >> images
Enter a title (you can copy and paste this). Then tag it with CPE and possibly something else if it's relevant. Also you can put any extra information and a link to the original source in the introduction.
Then in /gallery - open up the main image (for example: http://libcom.org/gallery/v/news/france-cpe/garedunord0606/124253124_d530ee884d.jpg.html) right click and save it to a folder. You can hit the "next" button to move to each one.
When you've done this, upload your favorite image using the "image form" (the top one) - this will appear in tag listings and stuff, then add the rest as "gallery image".
Then save it, and if possible stick a link up here to say you've done it.
If you do even one individual gallery it'll be a big help. It'll also help us test how the new image galleries are working because they're new.
Jul 23 2007 14:05
#2
One "images" node can hold unlimited images - so everything in this: http://libcom.org/gallery/v/news/france-cpe/garedunord0606/
would be one gallery. That means it won't get crazily clogged up, just a bit.
But yeah there'll be a post per gallery at the top of the cpe blog. So we should back-date galleries to the date they were originally uploaded on (most of them have a date)
Actually - looking at that url, we should try to copy those over into the url-alias so they still work as well. They'll probably be broken untill we get rid of the /gallery install though so I dunno if that's a good idea or not.
Jul 23 2007 14:22
#3
maybe we could add "x" to the end of the URL, then remove them later?
this module sounds great btw
Jul 23 2007 14:32
#4
I think if we add x to the beginning - xgallery/blah/blah it'll work fine - the problem is /gallery owns the /gallery/ directory - so any links pointing to that it takes over from drupal. Good idea!
Actually, let's use "z" - then we can find them in url alias admin easily.
it's not a new module - it's the same one we've been using for news/history/library images, just used a bit differently. Which is even better than a new module!
Aug 9 2007 16:13
#5
Right, done this:
New address: http://libcom.org/nice-31st-march-2006
Old address: http://libcom.org/gallery/v/news/france-cpe/nice3103/
The new url is balls, but so is the old one - so I guess we need to set up a url template for these galleries which should be something like gallery/news/france-cpe/xxx (or should news be in there?)
Done - http://libcom.org/xgallery/news/france-cpe/nice-31st-march-2006 but haven't done redirect.
Then we need to do a redirect from http://libcom.org/gallery/v/news/france-cpe/nice3103/ to the new URL.
Also needs breadcrumbs set up.
Will there be some sort of index for the new galleries? Are can we only find these images from tags/cpe
But we can't do redirect till we delete old gallery because of URL ownership...
Aug 9 2007 16:25
#6
Aug 9 2007 16:55
#7
What is this gallery image module? It blows, it needs a feature request for upload multiple images at a time.
Aug 9 2007 17:46
#8
Aug 9 2007 18:44
#9
unofficial bulk upload module here: http://drupal.org/node/100234 we should try out.
Also I haven't tried it on /gallery yet - but there are firefox plugins for mass image-grabbing.
rkn - I've been putting the old url with z at the front so we don't need redirect - drupal 6 or 7 we'll be able to have multiple aliases for nodes but only one active one - so it'll redirect to the main alias - i.e. no more path redirect module so we shouldn't use it any more, just make duplicate aliases and hope the redirect functionality gets in soon.
Aug 9 2007 18:57
#10
rkn - it's not a gallery module, it's just imagefield + imagecache + thickbox - same as news articles etc. Which makes it good for maintenance but yeah it's not optimum for stuff like this.
problem with this - if it's done now the CPE blog will just show up as a load of images, right? could we just tag gallery front page images maybe? and back-date them so they're not all at the top?