Hey All,
After being away for many weeks this summer (mostly working but still having fun in France and the US Mid-West
), I worked on a new Coppermine theme to break up the travel. Meeting several people who write blogs and wanting to incorporate a photo gallery into their blogs, I decided to look to see what I could come up with. I came across a competition for WordPress themes, so, I decided to port the winner, "
Connections" byPatricia Muller -
http://www.patriciamuller.com/ for use in Coppermine. I think it's a very good theme and have found many variations of it on the web. The contest link is
http://www.alexking.org/software/wordpress/themes/blog/2005/02/27/theme-competition/.
The width of the gallery table is 520 pixels so to prevent the scroll bar from being visible, it's best to use 4 columns for thumbnails (Config => Thumbnail view => Number of columns on thumbnail page = 4) and 4 items in the film strip (Config => Image view => Number of items in film strip = 4). The scroll bar allows for a couple of the configuration menu items to display correctly since the table width is less than 600 pixels.
[Edit] Also, this theme is really geared towards intermediate photos sizes of less than 460 pixels. The default in Coppermine is 400 and works great but if you try to go above 460 or so, you will get the scroll bar as when viewing the Coppermine demo. The popup size can be any size though. This setting is in Config => Files and thumbnails settings => Max width or height of an intermediate picture/video ** = 400 (default).
I'm also nearly finished with "
Red Train" theme that won the "Mini Poobah" award and should have it posted over the weekend. I'd like to also port the "
Plain Ol� Poobah - Rin" theme but it has a much smaller main content window and will require some extra work and testing. Testing themes is what takes all the time!
The screenshots show the theme with and without the configuration menu.
Enjoy!
Cheers,
Billy