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The bretteleben.de "Very Simple Image Gallery" Plugin for Joomla! 1.5 is a downgrade of the ingenious plugin "Simple Image Gallery" from Fotis Evangelou und George Chouliaras back to a "Web 1.0" gallery. The modified version comes without a lightbox, the plugin shows one large image, followed by thumbnails.
Why? Look, as stylish and usability-oriented the whole category of "Web 2.0" galleries may be, they have - from my point of view - a serious disadvantage. The hide the web page from the visitor. If you run ads on your site, this is a not-so-desired effect. You don´t care about search engine optimization, keywords, backlinks and so on to see your banners, skyscrapers, rectangles and link blocks disappear behind a black curtain - out of sight and unclickable. Features:- supports .jpg, .png und .gif
- can be aligned in your content item left, right, centered, float left or float right
- thumbnails optional below or right of the main image
- optional split galleries into multiple sets
- as many galleries per content item as you want
- every gallery can be configured individually (Parameter Overrides)
- optional show title and/or text with every single picture (Captions)
- optional show default title/text for the whole gallery
- optional link every single image to a different target (Links)
- optional use a default link for the whole gallery
- works with and without JavaScript
New in Version 1.5.4: - configure the image root folder in the backend
- default-buttons get installed automatically
- configure the folder for custom buttons in the backend
- remove blanks and linebreaks between lines of code
- image file names for captions and links are caseINsensitive
- the backend check the availability of the PHP GDlib New in Version 1.5.0: - "Sets" offer the possibility to split a gallery into multiple sets.
Choose the number of thumbnails shown with one set
Navigate between sets with automatic generated links/buttons
A counter shows the number of available sets
Installation and Usage A step by step tutorial on installation and usage can be found at Howto Plugin .
The possibilities the code inside the article offers can be found at Howto Plugin Code .
In addition you find some samples in the menu at the left. Demo
 Set 1/2 
Limitations/Preview: This version of the plugin uses one script, doing the whole work. This may cause - when using very large image-files - the maximum execution time of PHP to be exceeded on your server. If this happens, the script fails with an error. In this case, just refresh the page one or two times. This should be enough to get all images scaled. As soon as the plugin in configured and all images are scaled, everything works fine and your visitors will not be affected. Anyway, the next version of the plugin will come with an extra-file, doing the work of scaling.
Requirements
The plugin requires the PHP GD library to generate the thumbnails. Compatibility The plugin is tested successful with Joomla 1.5.6, 1.5.9 and 1.5.15. Anyway, using it aside with one or another existing plugin/modul/component may bring to light problems i haven't foreseen.
I suggest a test run before using it on a live site and stand by for your questions and suggestions. License Following the guidelines of the original, the "Simple Image Gallery", the plugin is licensed under the GNU Public License (www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html). update Version: 1.5.5 - fixes a JavaScript error that causes the set-navigation to fail when JQuery is used on the page Support If you have questions or suggestions, please use the comment-function. If you use this extensions, please post a rating and a review at extensions.joomla.org. Furthermore I appreciate everyone, supporting me with a link back to www.bretteleben.de on his/her website. The extension itself does not produce any hidden links, eastereggs or whatever.
Download The ZIP-archive contains the plugin, by downloading it you agree to the terms of the GNU Public License. The ZIP-Archive can be used for both, upgrade and fresh installation.
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plugin_vsig_1.5.5.zip
Have a look at the comments number 314 and 315 at:
http://www.bretteleben.de/lang-en/joomla/very-simple-image-gallery/-anleitung-plugin.html
Best regards
Andreas
Ja, eine nette Erweiterung. Es gibt viele solcher nützlicher Features gibt, die an mich als mögliche Erweiterungen an mich herangetragen werden. Das Problem dabei ist, sie sprechen nur einen sehr kleinen Nutzerkreis an und machen - würde man sie alle implementieren - die Erweiterung fehleranfällig und aufgebläht. Deshalb versuche ich bei der Entwicklung nur Features einzubauen, von denen ich meine, dass sie breite Nutzung finden werden.
In allererster Linie sammle ich aber die Kommentare hier um Probleme und Hürden bei Installation, Nutzung und Bedienung zu erkennen durch entsprechende Modifikationen von vornherein auszumerzen.
Spezialversionen, die eher ausgefalle Wünsche berücksichtigen baue ich nur auf Anfrage nebenher gegen Entgelt und behalte mir dabei vor, die Entwicklung später (ganz oder teilweise) in den Stamm zu integrieren.
Gruß
Andreas
N.
Nein, und ist auch fürs Erste nicht vorgesehen.
Gruß
Andreas
Gibts auch eine Möglichkeit, daß beim Bildwechsel das neue Bild langsam eingeblendet wird ?
Grüße
Frank
Ist es möglich, den Mouseover-Effekt bei den Tumbnails einzusetzen, statt das man draufklicken muss ?
Ich hab nicht viel Ahnung. Habe versucht, in der *.js onclick mit onmouseover zu ersetzen. Hatte aber leider keinen Effekt.
Danke und Grüße
Frank
Not all modules for custom code fire the needed events for content plugins to work and not all of them allow a plugin to write to the head of the page. You may want to have a look at the page "FAQ&Troubleshooting" (menu at the left), it lists 2 extensions, reported to work with my plugins.
Best regards
Andreas
Can someone check out my site and let me know whether or not this is possible? Thanks in advance!
Thanks a lot for your generous donation! If you have any questions about or problems with one of my extensions, please don't hesitate to contact me by email or comment.
Kind regards
Andreas Berger
I sent a donation to show you my appreciation!