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TKatch
#1 Posted : Friday, November 22, 2013 6:08:47 PM(UTC)
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Has anyone developed an image gallery add-on? My gallery with a simple table is getting too big and too difficult to maintain, besides being kind of crappy.
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#2 Posted : Wednesday, November 27, 2013 9:46:33 AM(UTC)
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I know that Aram at Avecom developed an image viewer plugin called SmartView. You can contact him from the partner page.
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#3 Posted : Wednesday, November 27, 2013 10:51:24 AM(UTC)
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I have Avecom's SmartView, but that is just a product page image viewer, not an image gallery page. I'm looking for a real image gallery. Can I just use a custom page or category page and add something like this: http://highslide.com/ for $29?
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#4 Posted : Wednesday, November 27, 2013 11:08:32 AM(UTC)
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Ah, OK. I misunderstood what you were looking for. There are a bevy of options for this kind of software, many of which are free. It really comes down to how much you want the software to do. For example, do you need it to dynamically resize your images? If so, you will need something that was written in ASP.NET. If you don't need that a JavaScript-only solution like you posted should work fine. I'll also have our designer add his two cents to this post when he gets back from Thanksgiving vacation.
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#5 Posted : Wednesday, November 27, 2013 5:39:39 PM(UTC)
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I'd use a bv page for this. You'd probably want to create a new page template to use.

All you would have to do is put all your thumbnails on the page and link each one to the larger version.

<a href="path/to/big/image1.jpg" class="group1"><img src="path/to/small/image1.jpg" alt="" /></a>
<a href="path/to/big/image2.jpg" class="group1"><img src="path/to/small/image2.jpg" alt="" /></a>
<a href="path/to/big/image3.jpg" class="group1"><img src="path/to/small/image3.jpg" alt="" /></a>
<a href="path/to/big/image4.jpg" class="group1"><img src="path/to/small/image4.jpg" alt="" /></a>

Add the Colorbox lightbox into the mix. http://www.jacklmoore.com/colorbox/

Add this inside the <head> tag of the custom page template you create:
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.10.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="path/to/jquery.colorbox.js"></script>
<script>
$(document).ready(function(){
$(".group1").colorbox({rel:'group1'});
});
</script>

You'll have something like this: http://www.jacklmoore.com/colorbox/example2/ only instead of having text anchors, you'll have image thumbnails. Every thumbnail with a class of group1 (in this case) will be navigable within the lightbox using the arrows.
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