Making a Fanart Gallery, Link Banners

[rickgriffin]

Okay now that the Cast page is updated, it's high time I made a proper fanart gallery for the site. Now, this could be on the forum using a forum-as-gallery add-on for phpBB, or it could be on the main site. Either way, I'd like suggestion on what software to use.

Also, I am going to make some actual link banners that people can use! Although you're welcome to help if you like.

[Buckdida]

Let's see. Putting it on the forums would probably be easier. Less messing around with wordpress and such. Wordpress seems good for what it does, but hard to rig otherwise...you can just put a link from the bonuses page to the forum gallery if you choose to do so. The bonuses page could then still be used for Wallpapers, extra/guest comics, concept art, etc, while the numerous amounts of fanart could be easily managed separately in the forums.

As for programs...I'm clueless! >_<

[rickgriffin]

Well not necessarily on Wordpress, but a separate program like the forums are separate from the site

[ReCreate]

I'm not aware of any(open source) software that could be used for the gallery. Though writing one in PHP would be relatively simple and straightforward.(to anyone who knows the language)

(and i'm afraid I won't be able to do it because I will be without a proper computer for 1-2 weeks, starting tomorrow. >_> and I don't really know any other PHP programmers on the forums that are still here that would be willing to do it)

I guess the only alternative would be something on the forums(a thread that will be maintained with all the fan art? or a subforum with threads for each peice of art?) or giving someone(a mod) access to editing the fan art page on the comic and having them maintaining it?

Edit: perhaps a wiki?

[Obbl]

From what little I've seen of PHP, it's enough like C++ that I should be able to pick it up relatively quickly.
But I'm not sure what the purpose of said program would be. If I know WHAT I'm doing I can start on it in short order.

[rickgriffin]

I am pretty sure there's some sort of simple gallery software that I could use without anyone needing to program something from scratch!

[sliceofdog]

My knowledge of coding is almost truly non-existent. As such, it's quite likely that what I'm linking to is of no practical help whatsoever. Still, this is a system of fan-art showing that I think is pretty good; http://www.titash.net/blog/guest-art/

[Kyderra]

Also a option is to add a link to the DA housepets-group, considering most fanart is posted there already.
and add a banner or somthing like:


but a good code would be awesome for the fanart section.

[ReCreate]

I am pretty sure there's some sort of simple gallery software that I could use without anyone needing to program something from scratch!

You'd be surprised at what doesn't exist.

[rickgriffin]

Maybe linking to the DA group would suffice, but there are several pieces of art that aren't on there

[Kyderra]

Maybe linking to the DA group would suffice, but there are several pieces of art that aren't on there

very True, but we try to have most of the FA links on the DA group as well.

[Esquire Fox]

I'm not entirely adept at stuff like this, but I looked around a bit.
There is one that's called Plogger that seems quite simple to get working and looks quite good too.
They have a demo gallery and it seems like you can do quite a bit with it.

There is a whole list of other photo gallery software here.

[Sinder]

It might be less of a headache for you to make a regular "fanart" page with HTML and thumbnailed pictures.

EDIT: Or, consider a third-party photo-sharing site, like Photobucket or Flickr. You can just direct people toward those galleries instead of coding one on your own.

[ReCreate]

One of your own will be much better, it can be right on the site, you can have full control over it. And you can host the files. No ads. Ads that benefit YOU, etc.

And i just remembered I had written a little gallery thing in PHP that shows all the images in a certain folder(permanent screencap folder), this is it. Would something like that be ideal? Or would a title/description for each item be necessary?
(it also has admin permissions(only to me), that allow me to delete any image)

[Dr. Prower]

EDIT: I have no idea what I'm talking about, so just pretend I wasn't here...

[Dissension]

I don't suppose this would suffice?

[Kyderra]

Java for the win do,
http://tutorialblog.org/12-javascript-image-galleries/

but im guessing we cant use that, or that anyone can script that... (I wish I could, but i still need to start on the study)

[ReCreate]

Javascript? That's a client sided language, not really capable of doing what is required.(and the thing you linked to is some sort of image viewer)

[Zander]

Found it while searching through crap.

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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<!-- Copyright (c) 2006. Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. -->
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:spry="http://ns.adobe.com/spry">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />
<title>Gallery</title>
<link href="../css/screen.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="../../includes/xpath.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="../../includes/SpryData.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="../../includes/SpryEffects.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
var dsGalleries = new Spry.Data.XMLDataSet("galleries/galleries.xml", "galleries/gallery");
var dsGallery = new Spry.Data.XMLDataSet("galleries/{dsGalleries::@base}{dsGalleries::@file}", "gallery");
var dsPhotos = new Spry.Data.XMLDataSet("galleries/{dsGalleries::@base}{dsGalleries::@file}", "gallery/photos/photo");
</script>
<script src="gallery.js"  type="text/javascript"></script>
</head>
<body id="gallery">
<noscript><h1>This page requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript in your browser and reload this page.</h1></noscript>
<div id="wrap">
	<h1 id="albumName" spry:region="dsGallery">{sitename} <span class="return"><a href="../index.html">Back to Demos</a></span> <span class="source"><a href="source.html">View Source </a></span></h1>
	<div id="previews">
		<div id="galleries" spry:region="dsGalleries">
		<label for="gallerySelect">View:</label>
			<select spry:repeatchildren="dsGalleries" spry:choose="choose" id="gallerySelect" onchange="dsGalleries.setCurrentRowNumber(this.selectedIndex);">
				<option spry:when="{ds_RowNumber} == {ds_CurrentRowNumber}" selected="selected">{sitename}</option>
				<option spry:default="default">{sitename}</option>
			</select>
		</div>
		<div id="controls">
			<ul id="transport">
				<li><a href="#" onclick="StopSlideShow(); AdvanceToNextImage(true);" title="Previous">Previous</a></li>
				<li class="pausebtn"><a href="#" onclick="if (gSlideShowOn) StopSlideShow(); else StartSlideShow();" title="Play/Pause" id="playLabel">Play</a></li>
				<li><a href="#" onclick="StopSlideShow(); AdvanceToNextImage();" title="Next">Next</a></li>
			</ul>
		</div>
		<div id="thumbnails" spry:region="dsPhotos dsGalleries dsGallery">
			<div spry:repeat="dsPhotos" onclick="HandleThumbnailClick('{ds_RowID}');" onmouseover="GrowThumbnail(this.getElementsByTagName('img')[0], '{@thumbwidth}', '{@thumbheight}');" onmouseout="ShrinkThumbnail(this.getElementsByTagName('img')[0]);">
				<img id="tn{ds_RowID}" alt="thumbnail for {@thumbpath}" src="galleries/{dsGalleries::@base}{dsGallery::thumbnail/@base}{@thumbpath}" width="24" height="24" style="left: 0px; right: 0px;" />
			</div>
			<p class="ClearAll"></p>
		</div>
	</div>
	<div id="picture">
		<div id="mainImageOutline" style="width: 0px; height: 0px;"><img id="mainImage" alt="main image" /></div>
	</div>
	<p class="clear"></p>
</div>
</body>
</html>

[ReCreate]

Found it while searching through crap.

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unusable code snip

That's part of something else, xpath.js, SpryData.js, and SpryEffects.js are needed for it to work.(among other files)

[Typhon]

What do you mean as in link banners?

[Kyderra]

I would also like to suggest to add links to some of the translations on the bonus pages
(or is that a bad idea)

[rickgriffin]

Alternate translations should be available in Comicpress 3

[gagi]

I am pretty sure there's some sort of simple gallery software that I could use without anyone needing to program something from scratch!

There are lots and lots of simple free gallery scripts in php, and javascript, and now there are some awesome jquery galleries, and (my least favorite) flash galleries.
Most of the php galleries are very easy to rig up to any page you want, but there are also so many wordpress gallery plugins that are free.

So in my opinion the wordpress plugin would be your best option with the least amount of work and the added benefit of having everything at on one place.

That's my though on the subject, and i'm also wiling to help (not spend to much time on it ... but a few hours a week i think i could manage)