| Simple Image Gallery (plugin): Easily add multiple image galleries inside your content items! |
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| Tuesday, 05 December 2006 | |
 Adding image galleries inside your Joomla! articles (content items) is
now super-easy and simple, using the "Simple Image Gallery" Plugin for
Joomla! 1.0.x & 1.5.x.Just add for example {gallery}myphotos{/gallery} inside any article and all images existing in the folder "myphotos" will be "automagically" presented as an image gallery. The gallery created features stylish shadows on each thumbnail and "lightbox" popups to display the original images, when the user clicks on a thumbnail! The thumbnails are generated on the fly using PHP, which means that the original images are resized and resampled, too! What are the advantages of using it? a) You don't need to have an additional gallery component to display a few images, b) you don't need to tell your visitors "to see our photos from Paris click here" and c) you focus more on content writing and less on administering the images! The plugin is ideal for news portals wanting to display some product images, for example, inside their articles. The potential of this plugin is actually only limited by your imagination! You can have as many galleries as you want inside each content item, but for performance purposes try to only add one at a time (unless you're having only 2-3 images per gallery). If you want to create a gallery from subfolders inside images/stories/, simple add them like this: {gallery}folder/subfolder/othersubfolder{/gallery}. In other words, write the path to your target folder without any slashes at the beginning or the end of your path. Future releases will feature more control over the galleries created as well as different representations! The "Simple Image Gallery" Plugin from JoomlaWorks utilizes "Slimbox" (developed by Christophe Beyls), which is a "Mootools" implentation of the famous "Lightbox" script. "Slimbox" generates the nice popups that display the original images in a gallery. Full documentation is included in the plugin's parameters page. If you want to show your support on our work, please rate and comment on the plugin at Joomla! Extensions. The "Simple Image Gallery" Plugin is released under the GNU/GPL license. Have fun creating galleries inside your Joomla! content items! Want more features? Then check out "Simple Image Gallery PRO"! DEMO GALLERIES
(images taken from the film "Casino Royale", released in 2006 by Sony Pictures - more here) Nice, huh? See another one below.
(images taken from T3 Magazine - www.t3mag.co.uk) If you want more features, like different popup styles or captions/labels to your images, check out the PRO version. |
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| Last Updated ( Monday, 22 September 2008 ) |
