a nice homepage.... http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170/a-nice-homepage Posts in the discussion thread "a nice homepage...." Tue, 14 Feb 2012 07:21:09 +0000 http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170#post-726809 Re: a nice homepage.... http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170/a-nice-homepage#post-726809 Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:31:09 +0000 ward5boston 398123 Any progress with this error? Workaround?

]]> http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170#post-657804 Re: a nice homepage.... http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170/a-nice-homepage#post-657804 Fri, 18 Dec 2009 03:45:32 +0000 Reputation Guy 417941 I think it will work either way.. and yes, I think CSI will do the job.. JMO

]]> http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170#post-642737 Re: a nice homepage.... http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170/a-nice-homepage#post-642737 Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:43:42 +0000 RobElliott 111301 No probs. I was (and still am) sitting on a train from London to Inverness which takes 8 hours so I have started to go through the "outstanding actions" file and this popped up.

Yes, the photos don't need a link. I'll post how to do that shortly.

You don't need an upgrade to implement this, it will work quite happily with a free account.

]]> http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170#post-642726 Re: a nice homepage.... http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170/a-nice-homepage#post-642726 Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:13:19 +0000 Derick O 397337 I didn't say, thank you, I said 'thanks a lot'!

But yeah the dissapointed about the response is what I can understand. Sorry about that. I was a little sick and tired… So didn't have much energy to experiment with this and choosed for a simple photo gallery solution so far…

Is it also possible to have the slides with the photo's without the weblinks to them? And the size is not totally right I think. But it looks great, nice piece of work. This is a reason why I seriously think of a wikidot account upgrade…

]]> http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170#post-642721 Re: a nice homepage.... http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170/a-nice-homepage#post-642721 Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:02:41 +0000 RobElliott 111301

Ok, thanks a lot. I'll look into this

If it wasn't what you needed then I can live with that, but the lack of any response is a bit disappointing as you chased me for a solution.

]]> http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170#post-638120 Re: a nice homepage.... http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170/a-nice-homepage#post-638120 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:45:01 +0000 leiger 32953 Would a CSI do the job?

]]> http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170#post-637251 Re: a nice homepage.... http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170/a-nice-homepage#post-637251 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:22:02 +0000 RobElliott 111301 Thanks for the comments. The thing that makes it fiddly is having to put the image urls and links directly into the javascript code which is not ideal, but I'm not sure what to do to get over that.

]]> http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170#post-637100 Re: a nice homepage.... http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170/a-nice-homepage#post-637100 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:56:06 +0000 leiger 32953 Wow. I'm saving this. First chance I get to test it, I'm going to see what this baby can do ;-)

]]> http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170#post-636699 Re: a nice homepage.... http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170/a-nice-homepage#post-636699 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:49:50 +0000 Phil Chett 4297 kin ell rob.
nice one!

]]> http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170#post-636659 Re: a nice homepage.... http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170/a-nice-homepage#post-636659 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:58:20 +0000 Rp2 389959 Ooo nice!! ill have to try this out sometime. maybe this should even be something that wikidot builds into there lightbox its so nice!

]]> http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170#post-636642 Re: a nice homepage.... http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170/a-nice-homepage#post-636642 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:34:15 +0000 Ed Johnson 38854 This is awesome, Rob! With all due respect, Derick, this deserves way more than an "I'll look into this".
I, for one, can't wait to try it out!

-Ed

]]> http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170#post-636560 Re: a nice homepage.... http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170/a-nice-homepage#post-636560 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:17:01 +0000 Derick O 397337 Ok, thanks a lot. I'll look into this

]]> http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170#post-636555 Re: a nice homepage.... http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170/a-nice-homepage#post-636555 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:00:58 +0000 RobElliott 111301 It would have taken quite a bit longer for me to complete the slideshow using flex, it was being "difficult". But have a look below and see if an alternative solution using javascript does what you want. The source code is on my page here. It's just using some of the images from your start page and links to pages on your site.

Featured Content

Click on a photo or on a link below to go to the page
1. tutorials
2. news
3. software
4. downloads
5. links

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]]> http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170#post-635007 Re: a nice homepage.... http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170/a-nice-homepage#post-635007 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:40:51 +0000 Ed Johnson 38854 hehe, you either helped or opened up another can of worms!

If you're going to stick with the format of listing individual images inside [[gallery]] ... [[/gallery]], you may want to resize them before uploading to a size that fits the screen better.

-Ed

]]> http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170#post-635002 Re: a nice homepage.... http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170/a-nice-homepage#post-635002 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:34:13 +0000 Derick O 397337 I'm glad I could help a bit here :)

]]> http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170#post-634945 Re: a nice homepage.... http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170/a-nice-homepage#post-634945 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:13:49 +0000 Ed Johnson 38854 I think a bug has been uncovered thanks to your attempts to sort this out.

Using [[gallery]] by itself generates the preview of all images on the page using the default settings of size="thumbnail" viewer="yes" and order="name". The lightbox images are displayed using the "medium" image size .

If you use the format below (with or without the lightbox viewer enabled), then the image size is ignored or not parsed properly and the full sized, original image is displayed.

 [[gallery]] : test1.jpg size="medium" : test2.jpg size="small" [[/gallery]]

This is either a bug or an error in the Wikidot syntax documentation.
I created a test page here: http://myfamilyphotos.wikidot.com/sandbox:gallery-test so you can see it in action.

I never noticed this before since I have always used the gallery module to simply display all images uploaded to a page.

-Ed

]]> http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170#post-634862 Re: a nice homepage.... http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170/a-nice-homepage#post-634862 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:24:43 +0000 Derick O 397337 I have now

 [[gallery size="thumbnail" order="name"]] : bardour size="small" : crenoise size="medium" : elinuxsampler size="medium" : adesktop size="medium" : dpianoteq size="medium" : oomidi2.png size="medium" : hydrogen_2.png size="medium" [[/gallery]]

But the pictures are not displayed as medium when you click on them

]]> http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170#post-634817 Re: a nice homepage.... http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170/a-nice-homepage#post-634817 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:33:44 +0000 RobElliott 111301 I've just checked your page and you've got the syntax wrong, it should be:

 [[gallery size="thumbnail" order="name"]] : blackadder.jpg size="medium" : george.jpg size="medium" [[/gallery]]

Additionally, you had spelled thumbnail with 2 ls whereas it only has 1.

Edit: Ed got in there first (my system is so slow today). But the spelling mistake needs correcting.

]]> http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170#post-634805 Re: a nice homepage.... http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170/a-nice-homepage#post-634805 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:25:09 +0000 Ed Johnson 38854 You're mixing up the syntax of the gallery module:

 [[gallery size="thumbnail" order="name"]] : [[image ardour2_3.png size="medium"]] : [[image renoise.png size="medium"]] : [[image linuxsampler.png size="medium"]] : [[image desktop3.png size="medium"]] : [[image oomidi2.png size="medium"]] : [[image hydrogen_2.png size="medium"]] [[/gallery]]

You don't need the [[image.. syntax inside the gallery module. Try this instead: 
 [[gallery size="thumbnail" order="name"]] : ardour2_3.png : renoise.png : linuxsampler.png : desktop3.png : oomidi2.png : hydrogen_2.png [[/gallery]]

I'm not 100% sure, but the order of the list of images may override the order= setting. The main purpose of listing the individual images is to control which images get displayed and to control the order.

Further, if you're going to display all of the images attached to a page, you don't need to specify the images individually. This will find all of the images on your page and display them as a gallery:

 [[gallery size="thumbnail" order="name"]]

-Ed

]]> http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170#post-634796 Re: a nice homepage.... http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170/a-nice-homepage#post-634796 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:16:36 +0000 Phil Chett 4297 looks ok to me. best explain a bit more

]]> http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170#post-634785 Re: a nice homepage.... http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170/a-nice-homepage#post-634785 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:50:13 +0000 Derick O 397337 then the pictures are not displayed right.

]]> http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170#post-634772 Re: a nice homepage.... http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170/a-nice-homepage#post-634772 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:29:11 +0000 RobElliott 111301 Try removing the blank line before [[/gallery]]

]]> http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170#post-634767 Re: a nice homepage.... http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170/a-nice-homepage#post-634767 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:21:56 +0000 Derick O 397337 Rooz here

@phil, thanks. Only have this [[/gallery]] visible on the site.. it shouldn't be there
@Rob, thanks, take your time

]]> http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170#post-634753 Re: a nice homepage.... http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170/a-nice-homepage#post-634753 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:54:18 +0000 RobElliott 111301 Sorry for the delay, the flash slides embed should be ready later in the week. I have some other projects that have to take priority at the moment.

]]> http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170#post-634747 Re: a nice homepage.... http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170/a-nice-homepage#post-634747 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:44:55 +0000 Phil Chett 4297 for the gallery and lightbox to work the pictures have to be stored on that page as a "file" upload.

Not elsewhere, as you have done.

]]> http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170#post-634737 Re: a nice homepage.... http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170/a-nice-homepage#post-634737 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:28:03 +0000 rooz 367781 Maybe I can add a photo gallery until the slides stuff is ready…

But i have problems with it… What do they mean by a gallery exactly and why is the LightBox not working?

http://openstudios.wikidot.com/home

Sorry, can not load files attached to the page in this mode. You should specify sources for each image.
desktop3t.png
[[/gallery]] ]]> http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170#post-633039 Re: a nice homepage.... http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170/a-nice-homepage#post-633039 Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:03:09 +0000 rooz 367781 I hope you don't mind I ask now and then about the progress ;)

I like to estimate when I can use this feature on wikidot.

Regards

]]> http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170#post-630328 Re: a nice homepage.... http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170/a-nice-homepage#post-630328 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:44:17 +0000 rooz 367781 How are things going here?

Regards,

\rooz

]]> http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170#post-627633 Re: a nice homepage.... http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170/a-nice-homepage#post-627633 Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:43:20 +0000 RobElliott 111301 Well it's being worked on but I whether the first version will get finished this evening is not definite.

]]> http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170#post-627285 Re: a nice homepage.... http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170/a-nice-homepage#post-627285 Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:20:15 +0000 rooz 367781 Made some progress already, or do you expect some progress in this weekend?

Regards

]]> http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170#post-624655 Re: a nice homepage.... http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170/a-nice-homepage#post-624655 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:16:24 +0000 rooz 367781 You're talking about the slider? Would be great! I'll wait for that.

Thanks in advance,

R

]]> http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170#post-624135 Re: a nice homepage.... http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170/a-nice-homepage#post-624135 Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:02:36 +0000 RobElliott 111301 The wine is good. I'll have a flash alternative to the link you gave soon, but it might take a few days depending on how much time I can spend on it.

]]> http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170#post-623961 Re: a nice homepage.... http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170/a-nice-homepage#post-623961 Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:52:42 +0000 rooz 367781 How was your wine? :)

]]> http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170#post-622931 Re: a nice homepage.... http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170/a-nice-homepage#post-622931 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:41:38 +0000 RobElliott 111301 It's not just a case of finishing it, I wish it was. It's quite complex stuff and needs some analysis to work out what isn't working, for example in the Jquery plugins - and whether they can work with Wikidot at all (Javascript does of course but Jquery plugins?) - and then what to do about it. It might take 10 minutes if I've made a typo or it could be several hours work with no guarantee of a successful outcome. That's why I thought I'd see if I can do a similar thing in Flex. I am just about to set out on a 4 hour drive but will be able to look at my own solution over dinner/wine/more wine at my hotel tonight.

]]> http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170#post-622856 Re: a nice homepage.... http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170/a-nice-homepage#post-622856 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:10:08 +0000 rooz 367781 Hmm maybe someone can finish it?
I wouldn't object though if you find a better method…

]]> http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170#post-622824 Re: a nice homepage.... http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170/a-nice-homepage#post-622824 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:07:36 +0000 RobElliott 111301 I've had one attempt at this but it's not working and I suspect the jquery plugin is not being called. Someone else might have more time to look at this. I'll have another look at it when I can but to be honest it would probably be easier for me to write a similar application in flex3 which produces an swf flash file which can be put into a page easily.

]]> http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170#post-622796 Re: a nice homepage.... http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170/a-nice-homepage#post-622796 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:15:02 +0000 rooz 367781 That would be great. It costs me a lot of time to find this all out myself… it's not that I don't want to invest time and effort, but I have more stuff to put time and effort in and then it's great if some expert can you help you out!

thanks in advance

]]> http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170#post-622791 Re: a nice homepage.... http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170/a-nice-homepage#post-622791 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:09:56 +0000 RobElliott 111301 The javascript would go into the <head> section of the html. I will look at this over lunch in an hour or so.

]]> http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170#post-622787 Re: a nice homepage.... http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170/a-nice-homepage#post-622787 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:04:42 +0000 leiger 32953 Well… the HTML would go into a HTML code block, then be iframed, I suppose.

The CSS would be tacked-on to the end of the theme.

And the javascript… I have absolutely no idea at all! ;-)

]]> http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170#post-622759 Re: a nice homepage.... http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170/a-nice-homepage#post-622759 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:18:24 +0000 rooz 367781 here is a howto for a slider http://css-tricks.com/creating-a-slick-auto-playing-featured-content-slider/

But how do I get this on wikidot website? I mean only the code is not enough right?

]]> http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170#post-622738 Re: a nice homepage.... http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170/a-nice-homepage#post-622738 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:15:03 +0000 RobElliott 111301 Yes I'll do a how-to, although I won't be able to do it until later in the week or the weekend as I have a nightmare week ahead.

]]> http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170#post-622679 Re: a nice homepage.... http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170/a-nice-homepage#post-622679 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:00:08 +0000 leiger 32953 Any chance of a how-to, skipping pretty much all of the explanation about what CSS Sprites are and just giving straight-forward instructions? :)

]]> http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170#post-622181 Re: a nice homepage.... http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170/a-nice-homepage#post-622181 Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:49:58 +0000 rooz 367781 Maybe something like this, but I have no idea how to implement such a thing… hints?

http://css-tricks.com/examples/FeaturedContentSlider/

]]> http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170#post-622131 Re: a nice homepage.... http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170/a-nice-homepage#post-622131 Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:44:28 +0000 rooz 367781 And something like this?

http://www.linuxmint.com/

or

http://www.ubuntu.com/

The pictures as sort of slideshow?

]]> http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170#post-622115 Re: a nice homepage.... http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170/a-nice-homepage#post-622115 Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:12:49 +0000 RobElliott 111301 You can create this effect by having a series of hover classes in your CSS, each with a different background image. Then add a button graphic on your page and set the class to one of the ones in your CSS.

]]> http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170#post-622113 Re: a nice homepage.... http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170/a-nice-homepage#post-622113 Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:07:36 +0000 rooz 367781 thanks!

]]> http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170#post-622106 Re: a nice homepage.... http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170/a-nice-homepage#post-622106 Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:02:14 +0000 RobElliott 111301 Yes it is, it is done using something called CSS sprites. It's not flash, just a part of a larger image that is displayed as the mouse hovers over something. For more information have a look at http://css-tricks.com/css-sprites/

]]> http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170#post-622091 a nice homepage.... http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-193170/a-nice-homepage#post-622091 Sun, 01 Nov 2009 14:37:36 +0000 rooz 367781 Hi,

Is it possible to have something like http://www.wikidot.com/ has on the frontpage of your wikidot page? I mean the flash/picture

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