Stopdesign Theme

sjard

I tried to convert the famous stopdesign theme from Douglas Bowman to zenphoto. I had to modify one zenphoto file to make it work, but maybe there are still some bugs.
What do you think of it?
Should I make a real theme for zenphoto out of it and do you know if it is legal to do it, because the original theme is published under Creative Commons License on stopdesign.com.

Here is the link to my gallery:
www.bleecken.de/bilder/

amory

Looks awesome, thanks for the work. Since things will change in the upcoming 1.0 release, you may want to wait until that, but i'd say it would be worth making into a theme.

(it is legal to do it)

trisweb

Oh my gosh that's beautiful. Someone send it to Doug Bowman and get him to switch ;-)

I would say that most of the template functions should be the same, but you may have to make minor modifications to the theme for 1.0. No big deal, keep up the great work.

bk

This is just awesome! You really should release this. I'm gonna wait till 1.0, I guess. When is it coming out?

thebludrop

Wow. That's really nice.

Can't wait for 1.0

shaghaghi

Great work. Can't wait for it to be released.

sjard

I think I will release it tomorrow for 0.9. I have to translate it to english, make some changes to the code and write an installation guide.

sjard

The theme is ready for download:

www.bleecken.de/bilder/stopdesign.zip

To install the theme read the instructions in install.txt.

This is like zp a beta-release! If you find bugs or have any other problems, please write them into this forum.

bk

Thanks a lot sjard! Very nice.
Can we customize this theme?

sjard

@ bk
You can customize the theme, but you have to pay attention to the cc license in the install.txt.

bk

Oh, right. Thanks!

trisweb

sjard - could you please outline the changes you made in the /zen directory so I can add the functionality you need to the release? It looks like you just want custom sized thumbnails specified from the theme, which I can do.

Splodge

I'm getting a link problem. Starting from the main gallery page with its list of recently updated albums, I select an album. Then I select the index page for the site from the breadcrumbs at the top of the page. That takes me to a page where the link ends "page/1" and the recently updated albums. If I now select Gallery Archive (with the link ending "page/archive.php" I get an empty page with "Album page does not exist." Should that link not be /archive.php?

shaghaghi

I had that problem Splodge. I switched to the default theme, then back again to Stopdesign and it worked. Still not sure why it didn't work the first time.

jammxz

i'm currently using this - it's a very nice theme! though i have one minor problem. my photos' descriptions are somewhat hiding behind the pictures and i can't really figure it out any ideas?

sjard

@ trisweb
I made two small changes, to display the thumbnails on the first page in a different size. I will outline them for you today or tomorrow and release a new version. (What I would need is a function that crops and displays the album thumb in different size than in the config.php)

@bk
I made some changes in the /zen directory to display the different sized thumbnails on the mainpage. So there is no function in the config.php to make different thumbnail sizes. It's a hack I did in the zen/i.php and zen/template-functions.php files. I hope this answers your qustion.

@splodge and @shaghaghi
I can't test the theme with mod_rewrite and so this may be a problem to fix. I will take a look into the source and try to fix it.

@jammxz
The design breaks when you are logged into the admin area. It is still a bug and i will fix it in the next release. If you log out from the admin area, the photo descriptions are shown correct.

sjard

Download & Installation Guide:

www.bleecken.de/zenphoto/ (english)

Example Gallery:

www.bleecken.de/bilder/ (german/english)

romamor

Great work! There is one annoying problem - when viewing the photos in a gallery and clicking on the thumbs to navigate to the next, the scroolbar disappears then reapperas with the new photo. This creates an unpleasant visual effect. This is on a 1024px screen, perhaps on others it is not visible. Would it be possible to fix this problem?

dom

That effect is due to Firefox (I assume this is the browser you are using, since IE has a scrollbar visible permanently) not knowing how tall the picture is going to be until it has downloaded the image header.

On very tall displays, no scrolling would happen and the scrollbar would be always hidden, and on very short displays it would probably have a scrollbar right from the start.

The proper way to fix this would be for the ZP image writing functions to include the height and width of the image in the <img> tag.

trisweb

I'm going to include those functions in the next release... they're very helpful in several cases.

bk

Link to a larger version is definitely a must.

aadeshm

@Splodge

just add the forward slash along with your gallery folder before archive.php in the index.php file under themes>stopdesign folder. It'll work.

similar to this.



you can check out my gallery on http://www.idizyn.com/albums

aadeshm

damn... posting it again.

a href="/albums/archive.php" class="btn"

Splodge

Thanks! That does indeed work:

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where 'zen' is the name of your top-level zen folder.

In the same `index.php` file I also had to change the link for Galleries, in the Gallery data section:

`Galleries`

Thank you.

trisweb

sjard, I have to say, this is very impressive work. Your documentation is a big plus.

It's themes like this that could be big for zp.

vsnguyen

This is a really cool theme, but the use of absolute position is pointless for something this simple. I'm going to try and convert this to a non position absolute layout sometimes next week and have so that you can resize the image to however big or small the user wants.

pimpsmart

Nice theme. Thanks to stopdesign and sjard. There seems to be a problem though with absolute position like vsnguyen stated. I think my images are too big and are causing some funny issues.

vsnguyen

I finished re-coding the layout in a non-position absolute. Im going to polish a few things up before posting it here.

DEMO: http://www.idols-unlimited.com/gallery/

Problem: There were some strange issue in the album.php and image.php

The calculation didn't just add up for some strange reason.

Also, if you're using broswers other than IE 6+ or Firefox 1.07. Please report errors...

Overall, It didn't take me that long to finish recoding as the layout is pretty simple. I spend 2 or 3 hours doing it. So, it wasn't that bad!!

ps: just found out that my site is currently down...

greguti

Hi all

this is a very beautiful template indeed. I use it for my own photo gallery. By the way I translated everything in french language (excepted the buttons). You can check the result here: http://www.greguti.com/mypics (be kind with me, I'm not a professional photograph and I don't claim to be one). I just opened the gallery yesterday so there is certainly some bugs around.

RogerUsh

It looks great! I wasn't appreciating the theme so much at first, but your content makes it look very inviting. And having it in French made me realize how intuitive the functions are.

Elevated

I put a modified version of the stopdesign templates up on my site: http://www.treemeat.com/albums/.

Thanks a ton sjard!