TTG Rounded Gallery

Current version 1.0

I plucked Alessandro Fulciniti’s Nifty Corners Cube script from the Internet yesterday to play with, but needed some vehicle in which to test it. Thus has TTG Rounded Gallery come to be, born a lab rat and quickly grown into something potentially useful to the greater world, or at least those denizens of the world who choose to use Lightroom.

TTG Rounded Gallery is yet another gallery for the Adobe Lightroom Web module, and also incorporates Christophe Beyl’s Slimbox, previously featured in my popular TTG Slimbox Gallery.

Functionallty, the rounded gallery and the slimbox gallery are nearly identical; visually, they’re a world apart.


TTG Rounded Gallery 1.0


Download | Sample Gallery | Adobe Forum Thread | Installation


IE6 Compatibility and XHTML Validation

There are two things that need to be done after exporting your gallery to ensure standards compliance and spiritual peace.

First, open index.html in a text-editor and delete the first line, which reads <?xml version=“1.0”?>.

Second, perform a Find & Replace All function. Fill the Find field with “xmlns= “ and leave the Replace field empty. This will cause all instances of this code to be removed (LR puts it in there, and we don’t want it!). Execute the action “Replace All”.

Once finished, save the edited file and upload the gallery to your server. It validates for XHTML Transitional and CSS.

Changelog


v1.0 (2007-07-13)

Initial release. There are some minor display inconsistencies in IE6 and IE7, but nothing that breaks the gallery. These may or may not be remedied in a future release.

Additional Notes

Utilizing Slimbox 1.41 and the third itineration of Nifty Corners Cube.

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Sergio
16 July 07 / permalink

I downloaded TTG Rounded Gallery 1.0 to my Mac. On my desktop. I now have a folder “TTGRoundedGallery”. It contains 9 files (some .css, some .js, some .xml) plus a sub-folder “images-slimbox”. There is no way to extract the template zip archive folder. If I move this folder to my “Web Templates”, I do not get something that Lightroom can recognize and use. Can anyone help me?
Thank you.
Sergio

Matthew
17 July 07 / permalink

Sergio,
You need to read the installation instructions more carefully. You need to create a Web Galleries folder; the files should not be placed into Web Templates.

Sergio
17 July 07 / permalink

You were right. Now it works fine. Thank you!

Bob
17 July 07 / permalink

Michael, love your work. Especially the pop-up aspect – is it possible to keep the page size limited and switch pages so that there’s no need to scroll?

Matthew
17 July 07 / permalink

Bob,
It’s possible, but would require a hell of a lot more coding. I have no plans to develop a multi-page gallery, but if you’d like to use my work as a basis for your own, have at it!

And it’s Matthew, by the way. :)

Cheers!

Bob
18 July 07 / permalink

Thanks :)Matthew:)!

Will
19 July 07 / permalink

I love your great work,greetings from Holland

Joe
20 September 07 / permalink

Hi Matthew,

I’m using TTG Rounded in one of my sites, and keep having problems with Internet Explorer 7 — some of the thumbnails will load, then the page will stall and freeze. This is a fresh install of IE7.

I’ve tested the galleries in Safari, Firefox, and Opera — they all work perfectly.

Would you mind taking a look to see if I have botched something?

I did the find/replace cleanup as instructed, but am still having problems.

The galleries are behind a membership site login – I set up a temporary password for you to use:

http://www.interiordesignadvice.com/membersonly/photos/windows/pics/

login is gallery
password is gallery

Thanks for your help,

Joe

Matthew
20 September 07 / permalink

Hi Joe,

I checked the gallery in both Firefox and IE7 and it worked fine for me. The page loaded in full and I was able to load and view images. I don’t see any coding errors either.

Do you have any extensions or addons installed in IE7 that might be causing a conflict? Have you set any scripting limitations in your browser preferences?

The first thing you should try is to disable the javascript from the gallery and see whether the page will load that way. You might then be able to narrow down the problem, see which (if any) of the scripts are causing the problem.

Joe
20 September 07 / permalink

Thanks for the quick reply.

I can’t figure this one out. I uninstalled ie7 and did a clean, straight-up, no changes install and still have the stalling issue.

I then tried on 3 other machines in my house and all worked perfectly on ie7.

The weird thing is that the machine where the stalling happens is my most powerful box.

Thanks for taking a look at the code, and thanks for putting these galleries together for lightroom.

Joe

John Kjellberg
4 February 08 / permalink

Hi!
You’re really helping the LR-world!

I believe there is a typo in the instructions above. The way I understand it the Find and Repalce All should be for:

xmlns=”“

Thanks again!
John

John Kjellberg
4 February 08 / permalink

Hi again!

It would be nice if it were possible to choose another font for the Site title (or to have the option of using the identity plate).
I also feel that this is the natural spot for a Home link.

But maybe this is where LR restiction come in?

Beautiful work anyway!
John

Matthew
4 February 08 / permalink

John,

This gallery is still on the old XML/XSLT boat from LR 1.0. At some point I’ll tear this thing apart and rebuild it in Lua, at which point quite a few new possibilities open up. The addition of the ID plate, for example. Look for it in the future.

Jamie A
4 March 08 / permalink

forget i asked its sorted itself out don’t ask me how

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