Photos with Long Descriptions

[pbtest]

Version 1.5
Global configuration - Default WYSIWYG Editor Editor - No EditorEditor - TinyMCE 2.0 . Currently set to (editor-no editor)

[Jan]

The description works with some editor, so if you enable the TinyMCE, you will see the format icon in the description area...

Jan

[pbtest]

Enabled TinyMCE in global configurattion, but no format icon in the description area

[dax702]

Hi Mark, can I see your Phoa gallery in action? I have a need for long photo descriptions too, I don't yet have Joomla 1.5 installed. Just trying to make my plan for all my components, etc as I will be moving from Joomla 1.0.

Question for Jan too - Are the photo descriptions that Phoca uses indexable by search engines? My photo descriptions generally are very rich in keywords and I would like Google to index them.

Thanks!

[Jan]

??? no idea, the description is placed in <p></p> html tags, so I cannot tell you if search engines will index it (I think, it will be the same as by other text on the site)

Jan

[dax702]

That's what I'm trying to determine - if the description of the photos are part of the web page itself, or are they in some other location that's not visible to the search engine spider. I am installing Joomla 1.5 now, so I'll see for myself in a bit

[dax702]

Hi Jan,
I downloaded and installed the gallery into my new Joomla 1.5 site. I put in a paragraph or so test description for a photo. When I clicked on the thumbnail in the front end, the lightbox popup came up and it had the description in it, however, the description ran into the popup controls on the bottom.

Then in the, backend, I found the option for description height. I changed it, then discovered that doing so pushes the popup controls down out of sight.

Also, it doesn't appear that description text can be indexed by the search engines. My suggestion to remedy this would be to create an intermediate screen after clicking on the thumbnail. This screen will show a larger version of the image, as well as the description. Then the user can click on that image to get the popup if the image is still bigger. This is how the PonyGalleryML works. On that intermediate page, you're also able to accept comments on the photos, as well as rate them.

I hope you like this suggestion =) Otherwise, you've done an excellent job on Phoca Gallery!

[Jan]

Phoca Gallery works other way (I didn't find the gallery which I wanted so I made Phoca Gallery... If it should work the same way as Ponny, then there will be no sense to create it...)

so, if you want see the detail image - you clik on detail image link, there you get the description and slideshow... if you want to see the original image, you click on download icon... so it works...

I just finished the user access behaviour (access to category, upload, delete, publish or unpublish) so Phoca Gallery is now ready to work with users (users has own categories where they can puplish own images)... Next logical step is to do comments or rating ... (but not so easy to implement, becase of the modal box or popup window, so we will see, maybe Phoca Gallery will be as it is or maybe someone will have good idea how to implement comments and rating and it will be implement...

next problem about comments and rating is e.g. safety... e.g. Phoca Guestbook where user can leave the message (more than half of whole Phoca Guestbook code is about safety... e.g. protection against XSS attacks, and... so it is not so easy to implement is


I hope you like this suggestion =)
I will like every good feature for Phoca Gallery but it is not so easy, because I still do Phoca Gallery by myself ...

Jan

[dax702]

Jan,
It's great that you pay close attention to security!
I'm sure the commenting and rating would be hard to implement since you go directly to the popup view from the thumbnails. Hence, the intermediate screen.

If that is not possible, here's another suggestion - can you somehow make the photo descriptions appear within the source code of the thumbnails page? Perhaps as a mouse roll over. A user moves his mouse over the thumbnail, and the description could pop up in a little box?

[Jan]

If that is not possible, here's another suggestion - can you somehow make the photo descriptions appear within the source code of the thumbnails page? Perhaps as a mouse roll over. A user moves his mouse over the thumbnail, and the description could pop up in a little box?

Yes, this is very good Idea, I will take a look at it for the next versions...

Jan