Comments on: New Look http://www.benchodroff.com/blog/2006/07/24/new-look lux non veritas Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:40:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Benjamin Chodroff http://www.benchodroff.com/blog/2006/07/24/new-look/comment-page-1#comment-266 Benjamin Chodroff Mon, 31 Jul 2006 03:43:35 +0000 http://www.benchodroff.com/blog/2006/07/24/new-look/#comment-266 http://www.flickr.com/help/limits/ Flickr only allows 20MB a month on the free account. However, for $24.95/yr, you can get 2gb/month upload. Phikap doesn't have that many pictures, but 20MB is pretty small. For the ease of use and maintainability, I think it would be a good investment. Gallery2 is out for me (Too complex for the non-technical brothers, etc), but I'm going to explore other options - let me know what you end up doing! http://www.flickr.com/help/limits/
Flickr only allows 20MB a month on the free account. However, for $24.95/yr, you can get 2gb/month upload.

Phikap doesn’t have that many pictures, but 20MB is pretty small. For the ease of use and maintainability, I think it would be a good investment. Gallery2 is out for me (Too complex for the non-technical brothers, etc), but I’m going to explore other options - let me know what you end up doing!

]]> By: Ben Golub http://www.benchodroff.com/blog/2006/07/24/new-look/comment-page-1#comment-265 Ben Golub Mon, 31 Jul 2006 03:36:39 +0000 http://www.benchodroff.com/blog/2006/07/24/new-look/#comment-265 That does look nice, but we've got nearly 5000 pictures in our gallery and doesn't Flickr have some sort of monthly limit on uploads? Plus using gallery2 let's us set up restrictions such as a brothers only album. I never did get the rewrites working btw :(. I tried the directions step by step and even tried manually editing the .htaccess file but it just never worked. Drupal is a very nice CMS. The learning curve is a bit steep at first but you can do some amazing things with it and the community is very helpful. That does look nice, but we’ve got nearly 5000 pictures in our gallery and doesn’t Flickr have some sort of monthly limit on uploads? Plus using gallery2 let’s us set up restrictions such as a brothers only album.

I never did get the rewrites working btw :(. I tried the directions step by step and even tried manually editing the .htaccess file but it just never worked.

Drupal is a very nice CMS. The learning curve is a bit steep at first but you can do some amazing things with it and the community is very helpful.

]]> By: Benjamin Chodroff http://www.benchodroff.com/blog/2006/07/24/new-look/comment-page-1#comment-264 Benjamin Chodroff Mon, 31 Jul 2006 03:25:50 +0000 http://www.benchodroff.com/blog/2006/07/24/new-look/#comment-264 I'm redoing our fraternity website right now using drupal. I was trying to think of the easiest thing for a gallery and I'm pretty sure i'm going to use Flickr instead of gallery2. More secure, easier upload interface, and there's a nice module for flickr: http://drupal.org/project/flickrmodule Demo site: http://www.hyperionreactor.net/flickr I’m redoing our fraternity website right now using drupal. I was trying to think of the easiest thing for a gallery and I’m pretty sure i’m going to use Flickr instead of gallery2.

More secure, easier upload interface, and there’s a nice module for flickr:
http://drupal.org/project/flickrmodule

Demo site:
http://www.hyperionreactor.net/flickr

]]> By: Benjamin Chodroff http://www.benchodroff.com/blog/2006/07/24/new-look/comment-page-1#comment-252 Benjamin Chodroff Thu, 27 Jul 2006 13:26:33 +0000 http://www.benchodroff.com/blog/2006/07/24/new-look/#comment-252 My tips are a bit longer than a typical comment - so you might want to contact me. However, you can start with this: 1. Place the gallery2 rewrites before the Drupal rewrites 2. You must setup the gallery2 embedded rewrite while in embedded view 3. I never got permalinks and direct download of images working. I only got rewrites of directories working. Good enough. 4. I had to preface all the rewrites in gallery2 with "gallery/". Example: gallery2/%path% 4. Even with all that, I still had to manually hack my .htaccess file and remove a slash to get it to work. Fun, heh. My tips are a bit longer than a typical comment - so you might want to contact me. However, you can start with this:

1. Place the gallery2 rewrites before the Drupal rewrites
2. You must setup the gallery2 embedded rewrite while in embedded view
3. I never got permalinks and direct download of images working. I only got rewrites of directories working. Good enough.
4. I had to preface all the rewrites in gallery2 with “gallery/”. Example: gallery2/%path%
4. Even with all that, I still had to manually hack my .htaccess file and remove a slash to get it to work. Fun, heh.

]]> By: Ben Golub http://www.benchodroff.com/blog/2006/07/24/new-look/comment-page-1#comment-250 Ben Golub Thu, 27 Jul 2006 04:25:20 +0000 http://www.benchodroff.com/blog/2006/07/24/new-look/#comment-250 Looking good Ben! I've been hacking together a new PKT site (which will hopefully launch before school starts) and spent an awful long time trying to get url rewriting working within an embedded gallery but never did get it working. The rewriting works great in our CMS (Drupal) and in the non-embedded gallery but not the embedded one. Any tips? Looking good Ben! I’ve been hacking together a new PKT site (which will hopefully launch before school starts) and spent an awful long time trying to get url rewriting working within an embedded gallery but never did get it working. The rewriting works great in our CMS (Drupal) and in the non-embedded gallery but not the embedded one. Any tips?

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