It's a three point play and Manji is on fire. The latest spotlight is on James' rendition. James is actually one of the beta testers, which is why in the footer he's got the name Chameleon rather than Manji, but that's because he has the pre-preview release of it (and you thought I ran into this unprepared). I've got to say the man's excelled himself again. What I love about seeing all these versions is what way they're actually using the open space provided in the background. Each spotlight so far has taken the background and used it in a different way.
Also one of the things I'm seeing more about is the use of the top space before the post as an area for a static (or changing comment) that puts people in the mood for what they're about to read. Nice touch that.
I could spot Jame's style a mile away it's very unique in all his previous renditions; the computer screen really is his canvas and it's an honour to have his rendition as part of the Manji family. He hasn't named it yet so once he does I'll be sure to update this post.
Question 1.Does anyone have any nice ideas for a gallery I could set up? I'm not really keen on flickr as the pictures really don't do the work any justice, or at least that's my impression. Ideally I'd like something that has a button to show thumbnails and then more details. Fade in and out effects are also welcome.Question 2.One last bit of news, I've got only the comment box rendition in IE to deal with before I can release Version 1.0 of Manji. There have been several fixes and a couple of new features added, but I'm having trouble sorting it out, soo if you've actually worked it out and can make the comment insert box look the same in FF and IE please drop me a line and save me some hours work.
Are you talking about the "Add my comment button" that's not consistent?
Yeah I'm talking about that and the fact that the spacing of the text fields elongates everything making the whole comments box a bit larger.
Manji is such a fantastic template. I'm totally in love with Shadows' version of it.
Hey Zenith, just wait till version 1.0 comes out and then make your decision. Yeah shadow's design is really cool.
as far as galleries go, you can't go past php-gallery, u can see it in use at http://somefoolwitha.com/ some sort of wrapper script needs to be written for it.
That site uses gallery, gallery and phpgallery are two different scripts. But yea that is a good gallery, i was trying to wrap it with my site last night, didnt work out the way i planned though :p
Not really sure I want something as complicated. As you can tell I like simplicity for certain things. I remember not too long ago I used a fantastic php script, just can't remember it's name, but I am genuinely interested in cool php gallery scripts. Any galleries out there with soft effects? Or are those confined to flash based things (I'd even build a flash gallery if that's what has to be done in the end :))
Chek Singapore. It's ...cool. http://singapore.sourceforge.net/
See that's pretty interesting. Thing is I've used 4Images in the past, and I do like it as a system, but the thing is I do want something that's seriously simple to use and leave comments as well. I'm going to five singapore a whirl and see if there are any wordpress plugins that might do what I want.
Ive been playing around with one, its just one file doesnt support seperate albums. It has a simple comment system, and wasnt hard to merge into my site (not compliant yet) http://www.scottdot.org/photos/gallery.php its nto bad if you just want to show a few images without any fancy features though.
Looks nice Scott. Can you share the code/installation process ?
I think this might take a little longer to deal with. I've already set up 4images, but now it's skining it which is a monkey to do, busy week means less time to really think about these things :). Thanks for the heads up Scott.
Shadow here is the gallery.php file, its all thats needed, it *should* work for any site once the 3 or 4 variables are set. Just make a folder with images in it, chmod to 777 and drop this in. www.scottdot.org/gallery_wp.zip
how's 1.0 comming along? :)
saw this gallery wrapper howto earlier. thought i'd post it for you.
http://www.pibby.com/blog/2004/07/21/incorporating-gallery-into-wordpress/
I'm using Gallery and used the tutorial that Slappa mentioned above. I just "flavored" (note the American spelling ;) ) Manji on my site and integrated Gallery. Previously, I was using Kubrick and had also integrated Gallery into my site using the same tutorial.
That tutorial is worth a ton of gold.
Many, many, many thanks to Khaled for all the hard work on Manji. I'm a HUGE Kubrick fan, but hated the CSS. You could spend hours trying to figure out what CSS div changed something in the layout. Extremely frustrating.
Love how the CSS is layed out in Manji. Straightforward.
I'll have to get used to no sidebar though.... but, I think I can manage ;)