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General Design: What's a good method for making a site with a Lightbox gallery that my client needs to edit easily?

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    • CommentAuthorWardLarson
    • CommentTimeJul 12th 2006 edited
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    So here's the thing; As some of you recall, I am very new to the profession of web design (call it what you may) and I have much to learn. Fortunately, my current client (being my first) is very descriptive and easy-going. What he's looking for is a photo gallery to showcase his photography and miscellanious images. I think that based on what he has asked for, Lightbox JS v2.02 sounds like the best method.

    The Problem.

    Having used Lightbox in the past, I know that the method of displaying your photos is anything but easy for a client that doesn't know anything about HTML, or any code for that matter. So what I need is a solution (prefferably one that doesn't require my client to touch the code) to allow him to easily upload images on his server and have them display using the Lightbox style.

    Thanks for any help,
    Ward Larson
    http://www.wardlarson.com/
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      CommentAuthorGustavs
    • CommentTimeJul 12th 2006
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    Well, you could write you'r own PHP script that changes/add the neccesary lines in Lightbox and uploads a file.
    • CommentAuthormista3
    • CommentTimeJul 13th 2006
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    http://zenphoto.org/ has a lightbox theme available, and a friendly broswer interface for uploading files.
    • CommentAuthorWardLarson
    • CommentTimeJul 13th 2006
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    Wow, thanks a ton 3stripe, I totally spaced out even thinking of zenphoto, which is odd because I've used it before and like it as well...

    I must need sleep?

    Haha. Thanks again.
    • CommentAuthormista3
    • CommentTimeJul 13th 2006
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    No worries, get some winks dude...
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    Here's a WP plugin that I stumbled across the other day. Unfotunately, the documentation is German. I've tried tinkering around with it and wasn't too impressed. But I really didn't spend that much time with it. Basically, you could create your own WP template (which isn't all that hard) for you client and then add this bad boy.
    • CommentAuthorWardLarson
    • CommentTimeJul 13th 2006
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    I think I'll just write the HTML so the thumbnails of his pictures link to the larger image using lightbox, and I'll just make obvious markers () for him so he can use it easily. Thanks for everyone's help though, I appreciate it. Wordpress seems like it would be a bit too much trouble as he's simply looking for a 4 page site with 25 photo slots on it.

    Thanks again,
    Ward Larson
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    Here's a rediculously simple site I did for a painter. Check out the "show/hide" JS in the head. Keeps everything on index.html. Not bad if you want to keep it super simple for the client (i.e. they don't have to switch out images in multiple pages, just one).

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