Photography Theme… CLEAN

  • Ok… all the programmers will probably hack this apart for non validation (I haven’t even gone there yet), but I’ve been struggling with a format for posting sets of photos in a blogg-ish type format so I came up with this…

    shutterhead.com

    This theme, I call “1OOOWORDS”, is a pretty extreme departure from the typical wordpress blog layout so I’m interested in knowing who all out there is interested in seeing this become an official (supported) theme.

    So what’s it got?

    • wordless main pages – keeps it clean – yet to be added is a clean implementation of overlib to display the post title and date when mousing over each new post entry on the main page
    • phpThumb integration to auto generate thumbs from the image database – uses cached thumbs so it performs well
    • large view via a centered pop-up (used to have lightbox, but I prefer the “pop-up”
    • theme switcher – since this is a photography theme, presentation is everything so user is given option of switching between a light or dark theme
    • rightscrolling – not for everyone, but I like it – especially if you have a horizontally scrollable mouse.

    So how does it work?
    Basically, I have a folder inside the wordpress installation called galleries. Inside that folder is more folders named to match the post-slug of a post. These subfolders contain the image sets that were automatically added via an Aperture script. The post then looks in the galleries directory for the folder and pulls the images into the post. If it sees, ***_large.jpg versions, it then adds the code to generate the centered pop-up.

    I’ve also added some functionality to support password protection of only a portion of the post page (the images), like this…

    https://www.shutterhead.com/private-pics-for-kira/

    It’s not perfect and needs to be fine tuned if it’s going to be validateable and what not, but would love to hear from people on what they think.

    Jay

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  • Anything which embraces ‘thinking outside of the box’ we support, but why does it take so long for the pages to load? After two minutes of loading per page we left, and so would most other site visitors. Are there other pictures on those other pages?

    This “we” (me) observed page load times in the sub 5 second range.

    I just always struggle with navigating photo-blogs. My hard-wired brain adapts poorly ??

    Thread Starter shutterhead

    (@shutterhead)

    I basically decided to upload rather high quality images so the load time can be long if there are more than a handful of images. This is completely user defineable… I could easily post smaller versions compressed a tad more for almost instant load and then have user click on image to view a higher resolution.

    But to add to that, I had a script that pre-loads the images and doesn’t display them until all of the gallery images are loaded. Unfortunately, the loading gif (which basically says yes images are loading) wasn’t showing up.

    To keep things simple, I eliminted the pre-load script so images start showing up right away.

    I like it. I’m always a fan of outside the box (especially in regards to graphics/layout)

    Thread Starter shutterhead

    (@shutterhead)

    Yeah… most photo blogs are hard to follow – i guess you can say including this one, but thought I’d share what a little tweaking can have wordpress doing for the photo story teller.

    Definitely not for everyone.

    freeeeaaaaking HOOOOT! I really love the look/feel, and I’m jealous. It’s clean, clear, beautiful, and I think it’s fairly straightforward. Very nice work. Will look around more….

    Jay,

    I just gotta talk to you. Your work is great. You’ve totally got my flava’. I am a fellow photographer, and would love to chat, if you’re into that.

    Check out my latest work at https://www.redlens.com/fuse/ and drop me a line at https://redlens.com/contact.html

    As far as the theme, I’ve got some questions, thoughts and feedback on that as well.

    Hope to hear from you soon!

    Ron

    “I basically decided to upload rather high quality images so the load time can be long if there are more than a handful of images.”
    That’s fine just as long as you understand that most people are still on dial-up and they will probably leave the site (another one is just a mouse click away). Other than that it’s great ??

    Thread Starter shutterhead

    (@shutterhead)

    I’m pretty sure you’re incorrect about user connection speeds. In December 2006, statistics showed 78% of US users were on a broadband connection. Something like 55% in the UK… and very high in asia.

    Heck, my grandmother has a broadband connection.

    Are you still on dial-up? Yikes.

    This theme, I call “1OOOWORDS”, is a pretty extreme departure from the typical wordpress blog layout so I’m interested in knowing who all out there is interested in seeing this become an official (supported) theme.

    Yo shutterhead, I have a wordless daily image blog using a template Tan 1.0 by Taly – his themes are here that has simple navigation ..a click on left takes you back, a click on the right of the image takes you forwards ..you can see it in action here

    Your new 1OOOWORDS has some great things going on inside it .. I like it a lot … so yeah, lets see what some other people think of this …

    nice work BTW

    ciao
    db

    OK, I want to buy this template.

    Please.

    It really is lovely.

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