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Hello there,
I'm working on a website for a friend and have been working with zenphoto for this project. ITs been great so far but I have run into some quirks that I haven't been able to wrap my head around after days of trying to understand it.
Can anyone shed some light on what is actually going on here?
This is the website in question:
http://madamekates.com
Problem #1: For some reason, the home page of zenphoto is displaying 4 albums - 3 albums in the first row and 1 album in the second row. My goal is to have it just show three albums per page and paginate.
Problem #2: When you drill down into an album it shows 12 thumbs - 6 across and 2 down. I'm trying to set it up so that it displays 10 thumbs - 5 across and 2 down.
Here is a link to a snapshot of the settings I have in the admin:
http://www.madamekates.com/images/zenphotosettings.jpg
If anyone can clarify what I need to be doing to achieve this, that would absolutely rock.
Also, the cropping settings in the admin are a bit mysterious. Can someone touch on that too? It seems as though you have to have square thumbs for if you try to set height to a different value than width, the image crop results in a distorted output... ie, if you set height to 100px you need to set width to 100px as well or risk a warped image output. I've played around with different values for this but couldn't get a grasp on what was actually happening to the image.
Thanks for all of the assistance.
I'm working on a website for a friend and have been working with zenphoto for this project. ITs been great so far but I have run into some quirks that I haven't been able to wrap my head around after days of trying to understand it.
Can anyone shed some light on what is actually going on here?
This is the website in question:
http://madamekates.com
Problem #1: For some reason, the home page of zenphoto is displaying 4 albums - 3 albums in the first row and 1 album in the second row. My goal is to have it just show three albums per page and paginate.
Problem #2: When you drill down into an album it shows 12 thumbs - 6 across and 2 down. I'm trying to set it up so that it displays 10 thumbs - 5 across and 2 down.
Here is a link to a snapshot of the settings I have in the admin:
http://www.madamekates.com/images/zenphotosettings.jpg
If anyone can clarify what I need to be doing to achieve this, that would absolutely rock.
Also, the cropping settings in the admin are a bit mysterious. Can someone touch on that too? It seems as though you have to have square thumbs for if you try to set height to a different value than width, the image crop results in a distorted output... ie, if you set height to 100px you need to set width to 100px as well or risk a warped image output. I've played around with different values for this but couldn't get a grasp on what was actually happening to the image.
Thanks for all of the assistance.
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There are two aspects to your question. The first is what will show in a "row" on your site. That is comepletely dependent on on the CSS HTML you use. This forum is not the place for learning about how to design HTML displays. Suffice it to say you will have to setup the "size" of a thumb and the "space" where it is displayed so that you get your requsite 5 across thumbs.
The second is telling the Zenphoto core what the HTML is doing so that it can participate intellegently in paging your site. There is a trouble shooting guide on this. Have you researched this?
As to the cropping settings: There are two aspects. first is the thumb size and second is the crop size. The way to think about this is that (not actually what happens, but a simplification) is that first the thumbnail is sized to the thumb size then a portion is extracted from it based on the crops. So if you have set thumb size to 100 and crop hight and width to 85 you will get a crop that is based on 85% of the image. The framing of the crop will be based on the rule of thirds proponent in photography. Should this not be what you desire you can always custom crop the image.
If in your case you are not actually cropping the image (crop height/width the same as the crop size) you probably should not be telling Zenphoto to crop the image.
Also possible is to use the "maxsize" function to get an uncropped image that retains the original image's aspect ratio.
The second is telling the Zenphoto core what the HTML is doing so that it can participate intellegently in paging your site. There is a trouble shooting guide on this. Have you researched this?
As to the cropping settings: There are two aspects. first is the thumb size and second is the crop size. The way to think about this is that (not actually what happens, but a simplification) is that first the thumbnail is sized to the thumb size then a portion is extracted from it based on the crops. So if you have set thumb size to 100 and crop hight and width to 85 you will get a crop that is based on 85% of the image. The framing of the crop will be based on the rule of thirds proponent in photography. Should this not be what you desire you can always custom crop the image.
If in your case you are not actually cropping the image (crop height/width the same as the crop size) you probably should not be telling Zenphoto to crop the image.
Also possible is to use the "maxsize" function to get an uncropped image that retains the original image's aspect ratio.