Archive for June, 2009

New Themes

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

We’ve added three new themes for gallery pages, featuring big resizing pictures: Big Picture Left, Big Picture Across, and Picture Right. These themes are designed for gallery listings. They match the default theme, but they show a large picture from the gallery that will resize to fit the screen. It’s a nice compromise with the Picture Background Resizing theme, which fills the whole screen but can obscure text.

We’ve turned on live editing for the #container setting, so you can start messing around with margins, padding, and other aspects of the main area of a theme. Give it a try.

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Uploading Files and Embedding them in Text

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

You can upload files, such as PDF, MOV, or MP3, using the “Files” tab. Once you have uploaded a file, you can have it show as a link, or an embedded video, inside text, anywhere in your galleries, exhibitions, profile, or picture captions.

First you upload a file using the new “Files” tab. Notice that your file name may change — if you upload “My Cool Picture.jpg” you’ll get “my_cool_picture.jpg”. Remember this new name.

To insert an uploaded file in your text, write the file name and link title with [[ and ]] around them, and a ‘:’ between, like this:
[[my_file.jpg:My Picture]]
Different kinds of files are treated differently. A PDF or word file (.doc) will show a link to the file, and the viewer can download it (or view it) when they click. A video will be embedded in a player, right in the text. A music file will pop open a new screen and play the audio track.

Samples:
Picture: Here is my picture: [[my_picture.jpg]]
PDF file: Here is my resume: [[my_resume.pdf:Click to see my resume]]
Audio: Listen to [[birds_singing.mp3:the sound of birds singing]]
Video: Watch the event: [[video_of_event.mov:A Happy Day]]

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Major Upgrade!

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

I’ve finished a major upgrade to the gallery system (http://info.mimetic.com/). I’m very exited — I’ve been working on it for months. The coolest new tool is the live theme editor. Finally, you can change how your gallery looks by clicking right on the gallery itself!  Also, you can now add uploaded files, as links or even embedded in text. Now, it’s easy to add a picture or a link to PDF file.

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