From: Toni on 12 May 2010 11:07 Has anyone been able to use a lightbox application with the FrontPage photo gallery? I have FrontPage 2002. I like the convenience of the built-in photo gallery app in FP. Now, I've been able to get various mouseover effects with CSS by wrapping the entire gallery in a DIV, but the light box applications I've seen all require the thumbnail link to contain a rel= tag in the anchor, and I can't see how to work with that. Maybe an innerHTML thing, but I'm not good with JavaScript. Anyone have any ideas they want to share?
From: Andrew Murray on 13 May 2010 01:22 "Toni" <Toni(a)nowhere.com> wrote in message news:#e4QhTe8KHA.2248(a)TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... > Has anyone been able to use a lightbox application with the FrontPage > photo gallery? > > I have FrontPage 2002. I like the convenience of the built-in photo > gallery app in FP. > > Now, I've been able to get various mouseover effects with CSS by wrapping > the entire gallery in a DIV, but the light box applications I've seen all > require the thumbnail link to contain a rel= tag in the anchor, and I > can't see how to work with that. Maybe an innerHTML thing, but I'm not > good with JavaScript. > > Anyone have any ideas they want to share? > There are alternatives for developing photo galleries which include Irfanview or JAlbum (google for these - free applications), or many other commercial applications like Photoshop or Fireworks or Paintshop Pro possibly have means to create galleries and export as HTML table for web pages. Lightbox scripts and FP photo gallery wouldn't mix too easily. The "lightbox" script (using JQuery and such similar scripting of today) is far newer than the original Frontpage photo gallery web-bot. Also the FP photo gallery is too old by today's web standards (and is from a time when web sites were "Best viewed in IE or Netscape" and the number of browsers available today didn't exist; it (the FP gallery itself) probably won't work too well in today's modern browsers. The FP gallery is a web-bot FP doesn't take too kindly to one changing the bot's code, and it seems to default it back to whatever it was originally, so you can't really work with the FP bot and Lightbox scripts per se. What you can do is create a gallery using Irfanview or JAlbum, and I'm sure you can adapt the lightbox to the album they can produce. It may mean a bit more work, but it is more likely guaranteed to work as you expect.
From: Tina Clarke on 13 May 2010 07:01 "Toni" <Toni(a)nowhere.com> wrote in message news:%23e4QhTe8KHA.2248(a)TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... > Has anyone been able to use a lightbox application with the FrontPage > photo gallery? > > I have FrontPage 2002. I like the convenience of the built-in photo > gallery app in FP. > > Now, I've been able to get various mouseover effects with CSS by wrapping > the entire gallery in a DIV, but the light box applications I've seen all > require the thumbnail link to contain a rel= tag in the anchor, and I > can't see how to work with that. Maybe an innerHTML thing, but I'm not > good with JavaScript. > > Anyone have any ideas they want to share? > > Yes dump the fp photogallery ... after any tweaking if you add another picture it will default back to orginal settings.... if you dont want to add any more pictures then tweak it and leave it. http://accessfp.net/frontpagephotogallery.htm however you are much better off moving to another web album such as http://www.ornj.net/webalbum/ which is free and outputs validating code makes the pages for you too... still needs tweaking like anything though. if you do this ....and find it easy and like the outcome .. consider looking at your other bots and how to replace them (do you use any others?) Tina Migrating from FrontPage to Expression Web Ebook v2.0 New version includes help for EW 3.0 Find out how to transition from fp to ew with ease http://www.frontpage-to-expression.com/ebook.html
From: Toni on 13 May 2010 11:07 "Andrew Murray" wrote... > "Toni" wrote... >> Has anyone been able to use a lightbox application with the FrontPage photo gallery? >> >> I have FrontPage 2002. I like the convenience of the built-in photo gallery app in >> FP. >> >> Now, I've been able to get various mouseover effects with CSS by wrapping the entire >> gallery in a DIV, but the light box applications I've seen all require the thumbnail >> link to contain a rel= tag in the anchor, and I can't see how to work with that. >> Maybe an innerHTML thing, but I'm not good with JavaScript. >> >> Anyone have any ideas they want to share? >> > > There are alternatives for developing photo galleries which include Irfanview or > JAlbum (google for these - free applications), or many other commercial applications > like Photoshop or Fireworks or Paintshop Pro possibly have means to create galleries > and export as HTML table for web pages. > > Lightbox scripts and FP photo gallery wouldn't mix too easily. The "lightbox" script > (using JQuery and such similar scripting of today) is far newer than the original > Frontpage photo gallery web-bot. Actually, I got it to work with Fancybox http://fancybox.net/ I wrapped the FP bot in a DIV tag with the ID= of the effect, and made a small mod to the javascript and the CSS. No changes to FP or the bot are needed. Works like a charm. I'm sure that if I had to create the website from scratch, I'd go in a different direction. But the website is for an existing business and the FP gallery is showing photos of examples of the company's work, and the business is doing great, so I'm nervous about redesigning the gallery unless it is absolutely needed. For a small, 12-page website that is extremely visual, I prefer to go with a complete WYSIWYG solution
From: Andrew Murray on 13 May 2010 21:46
"Toni" <Toni(a)nowhere.com> wrote in message news:OHqoB4q8KHA.5716(a)TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... > "Andrew Murray" wrote... >> "Toni" wrote... >>> Has anyone been able to use a lightbox application with the FrontPage >>> photo gallery? >>> >>> I have FrontPage 2002. I like the convenience of the built-in photo >>> gallery app in FP. >>> >>> Now, I've been able to get various mouseover effects with CSS by >>> wrapping the entire gallery in a DIV, but the light box applications >>> I've seen all require the thumbnail link to contain a rel= tag in the >>> anchor, and I can't see how to work with that. Maybe an innerHTML thing, >>> but I'm not good with JavaScript. >>> >>> Anyone have any ideas they want to share? >>> >> >> There are alternatives for developing photo galleries which include >> Irfanview or JAlbum (google for these - free applications), or many other >> commercial applications like Photoshop or Fireworks or Paintshop Pro >> possibly have means to create galleries and export as HTML table for web >> pages. >> >> Lightbox scripts and FP photo gallery wouldn't mix too easily. The >> "lightbox" script (using JQuery and such similar scripting of today) is >> far newer than the original Frontpage photo gallery web-bot. > > Actually, I got it to work with Fancybox http://fancybox.net/ > I wrapped the FP bot in a DIV tag with the ID= of the effect, and made a > small mod to the javascript and the CSS. No changes to FP or the bot are > needed. Works like a charm. > > I'm sure that if I had to create the website from scratch, I'd go in a > different direction. But the website is for an existing business and the > FP gallery is showing photos of examples of the company's work, and the > business is doing great, so I'm nervous about redesigning the gallery > unless it is absolutely needed. > > For a small, 12-page website that is extremely visual, I prefer to go with > a complete WYSIWYG solution > > Can we see a finished page with this in action? The same problem exists: the FP gallery is old technology and won't work (or less likely) in browsers like Opera, Firefox, Chrome etc. The gallery requires the FP server extensions which won't be around forever. In fact Microsoft ceased support for the FPSE some years ago. |