I would like to create a more complex/varied pattern for the thumbnail image display in my custom theme. Instead of every thumbnail looking exactly the same in the standard grid layout I would like to do something like this photographer/web designer did:
http://www.widerange.org/gallery.php?gallery=LargeFormatThis is a php template based layout. If you examine the layout you will see a pattern emerge based around *two* thumbnail sizes. This pattern consists of tables with varied rows, number of columns and sizes which repeats itself every ~15 images. The three primary challenges in doing this are:
1. Using two thumbnail sizes.
2. Creating a more complex table based pattern (vs. standard grid layout) which repeats itself every ~15 images.
3. Use this within the Coppermine framework/paradigm for laying out and displaying thumbnails.
As far as the first challenge, I could create the larger thumbnails myself if need be and place them in a different directory/sub directory.
And for the second challenge, I have already examined the discovered the more complex table based pattern used.
The third one is the larger challenge for me after examining CPG's current thumbnail template and function structure - The template_thumbnail_view is very simple. It is just a template for a single cell in a table containing 1 thumbnail which will then repeat n times.
My question is would it be possible in CPG to create a custom thumbnail template made up of *more* than one image like the one shown above and use that layout instead? I think this would involve some database lookups which I am OK with. I am just not sure how to lay things out within CPG.
Thanks for any tips you can provide,
Derek