tfw2005
03-01-2007, 10:51 PM
Was looking at the second demo. In the cat listings, it has
Custom Members' Category
This is a normal category with the "Act as Members' Category" setting enabled. Now any entries that are submitted to this category will automatically be placed in a sub-folder named after the author.
I like this idea, and I think it could be applied to an "artists" theme.
If you aren't familiar, there is a site called DeviantArt.com. It's an artist based website, gives users a mini-gallery, start page, and comment system for each entry, blog, and guestbook. Most of my "Fan Artists" are using this, and I see tons of "Check out my new pic - Link to Deviant Art" posts in my Art forum.
Is there an ability to create another option for dispaly of entries centered around Images/Media? So when you click to see a full post, you see a medium sized image, with click options to full? Description by author below, and responses below that?
Second need would be to view these member cats as "Media Galleries" showing the thumbs in table format, nothing else. Click thumb, takes you to full page entry.
If these 2 things could be done, it would allow us to basically recreate DeviantArt's methods here, as we already have a blog system in place. Blocks saying "check out blog" when in member folder, and "check out gallery" when in blog area. Etc. basically pull it all together.
Everything relating to creating a "flow" based around this theme can be accomplished thru mods and hacks, only thing I think we need built into the core is the option "Act as Media Category" when creating things.
If checked, top level cats can be the same (basically the name of user), but a new template is called for the entrybits, and full pages.
If the admin checks both "Act as Media Category" and "Act as Members' Category", it does the "auto-sub-cat-per-name" scenerio, and applies the media templates.
Anyone think this is worth while?
Custom Members' Category
This is a normal category with the "Act as Members' Category" setting enabled. Now any entries that are submitted to this category will automatically be placed in a sub-folder named after the author.
I like this idea, and I think it could be applied to an "artists" theme.
If you aren't familiar, there is a site called DeviantArt.com. It's an artist based website, gives users a mini-gallery, start page, and comment system for each entry, blog, and guestbook. Most of my "Fan Artists" are using this, and I see tons of "Check out my new pic - Link to Deviant Art" posts in my Art forum.
Is there an ability to create another option for dispaly of entries centered around Images/Media? So when you click to see a full post, you see a medium sized image, with click options to full? Description by author below, and responses below that?
Second need would be to view these member cats as "Media Galleries" showing the thumbs in table format, nothing else. Click thumb, takes you to full page entry.
If these 2 things could be done, it would allow us to basically recreate DeviantArt's methods here, as we already have a blog system in place. Blocks saying "check out blog" when in member folder, and "check out gallery" when in blog area. Etc. basically pull it all together.
Everything relating to creating a "flow" based around this theme can be accomplished thru mods and hacks, only thing I think we need built into the core is the option "Act as Media Category" when creating things.
If checked, top level cats can be the same (basically the name of user), but a new template is called for the entrybits, and full pages.
If the admin checks both "Act as Media Category" and "Act as Members' Category", it does the "auto-sub-cat-per-name" scenerio, and applies the media templates.
Anyone think this is worth while?