In a nutshell, and what this article linked above will suggest, (is that what you meant by option "B"??) is that we prefer to manage our slideshows/galleries as simply a folder of images managed in the Media section of the back office, not as individual nodes managed in the Content section. We then can create a single document type called Photo Gallery Page which has a single Media Picker property on it. We pick the folder containing the images and then using some razor can easily loop through its contents on the display side. (The article I linked does this in XSLT but is just as easy to do in Razor.) Using ImageGen to automatically generate the thumbnails is a wonderful bonus & timesaver!
I think the concept in Niels' video and what I'm discussing is practically the same: one way you just manage a series of content nodes, the other way as just managing a media folder filled with images. Although it is possible with our suggestion to easily add a few photos to an existing gallery using the Desktop Media Uploader, without ever having to visit the back office UI!
Thank you so much, Funka!. You answered my question perfectly, and it's just as I had thought. It does seem to make things much more easy for the client that way.
Ideal way to create galleries?
A. Create a container for each media image. And then you can let the gallery page have those containers as subnodes as shown in the following video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J7TiN0QiAY&feature=related
B. Have the gallery page have a folder of images as the subnode
Hello,
I saw Niels' video showing how to create a gallery via some new document types with the Upload data type a while ago, too, but we found the advice presented here { http://www.diplo.co.uk/blog/2011/4/8/creating-a-simple-image-gallery-in-umbraco.aspx } to be much nicer for our purposes.
In a nutshell, and what this article linked above will suggest, (is that what you meant by option "B"??) is that we prefer to manage our slideshows/galleries as simply a folder of images managed in the Media section of the back office, not as individual nodes managed in the Content section. We then can create a single document type called Photo Gallery Page which has a single Media Picker property on it. We pick the folder containing the images and then using some razor can easily loop through its contents on the display side. (The article I linked does this in XSLT but is just as easy to do in Razor.) Using ImageGen to automatically generate the thumbnails is a wonderful bonus & timesaver!
I think the concept in Niels' video and what I'm discussing is practically the same: one way you just manage a series of content nodes, the other way as just managing a media folder filled with images. Although it is possible with our suggestion to easily add a few photos to an existing gallery using the Desktop Media Uploader, without ever having to visit the back office UI!
Best of luck!
Thank you so much, Funka!. You answered my question perfectly, and it's just as I had thought. It does seem to make things much more easy for the client that way.
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