Tag Archives: Cleaner Gallery

Kathleena Gorga

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Site

www.kathleenagorga.com

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Client. (The same client as for the Conscious Beauty site.)

Theme

Kathleena Gorga 1.0 (created by Sallie Goetsch with Artisteer)

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Kathleena wanted to duplicate the appearance of a site that had been created with a combination of PageMaker and Photoshop, but have the ability to add new photos to her galleries. Since I’m not primarily a theme designer (who am I kidding? I’m not a theme designer at all), this required a fair amount of tweaking, but the result is very close, with greater usability.

I used pageMash to hide the blog entirely more than for organizing the comparatively small number of pages.

The initial gallery page does involve a single table and a few absolute URLs—which tripped me up when it came time to  publish to the root directory. The actual galleries use Cleaner Gallery and Lightbox 2. Cleaner Gallery is wonderful for uploading whole directories of images at a time.

Dorataya

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www.dorataya.com

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Client. (Okay, she’s my mom.)

Theme

Modularity Lite Screenshot

Modularity Lite by Thad Allender from Graph Paper Press

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Since my mother is a photographer, I wanted a portfolio-style theme for her site. And since she had already uploaded hundreds of photos to Picasa, I wanted her to be able to insert photos from her existing albums rather than having to upload them all over again.

Picasa Image Express takes care of inserting individual images from Picasa albums into posts, and it’s very easy for a non-geek to use. Shashin, on the other hand, is an impressively sophisticated tool, but the options are a bit overwhelming. It can, however, display all your Picasa albums in a WordPress page.

In addition to resizing a few of Mom’s panorama photos to fit the custom slideshow for Modularity Lite (one day I’ll have to see whether it’s possible to use more than 5 images for that), I chose a dark background for maximum drama and added the thumbnail excerpts because we wanted as many images to show as possible.

Finally, because Mom has so many Picasa friends from overseas, we needed a translator. The Global Translator plugin works well, though it can’t do what Picasa does and translate multiple languages into each other, since it’s designed to translate from the base language of the blog’s author into the language the blog reader chooses.