http://omeka.org/forums/ Forums Forum: Themes and Public Display en Sat, 11 Oct 2008 23:34:11 +0000 http://omeka.org/forums/topic/skills-needed-to-modify-theme#post-674 Wed, 01 Oct 2008 17:05:42 +0000 lmullen 674@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>Dave,</p> <p>Thanks for the helpful response. That gives me some confidence in going forward with this project. I'll take a look at the screencast.</p> <p>LAM </p> http://omeka.org/forums/topic/skills-needed-to-modify-theme#post-668 Wed, 01 Oct 2008 02:56:32 +0000 DaveLester 668@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>Hi Lincoln,</p> <p>We've designed the theme API to require minimal knowledge of PHP in order to design your Omeka site. So if you're comfortable opening up a WordPress theme and hacking away at CSS, you'll feel comfortable working with an Omeka theme. We currently have 10 themes available to download (http://omeka.org/download/themes/), and I'd suggest working off one of these pre-built themes to get started.</p> <p>To learn more about the structure of a theme and how to edit one, we've released a screencast (http://omeka.org/codex/Theme_File_Structure) that you'll find helpful.</p> <p>Best,<br /> Dave </p> http://omeka.org/forums/topic/skills-needed-to-modify-theme#post-666 Wed, 01 Oct 2008 02:44:33 +0000 lmullen 666@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>I may be developing a website powered by Omeka, for which I would need to customize one of the existing Omeka themes. How difficult is it to customize a theme? </p> <p>For example, I'm comfortable modifying a Wordpress theme. Modifying the CSS for an Omeka theme seems doable to me. But would customizing an Omeka theme require extensive knowledge of PHP? What's the minimum skill set needed? </p> http://omeka.org/forums/topic/definition-list-tags-vs-h2-tags#post-602 Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:07:12 +0000 JeremyBoggs 602@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>Hi myotus,</p> <p>While I think using a definition list is OK in this instance, I'm not sure that it would really be "cleaner." I personally am reluctant to use definition lists except for 1) acutally definiting terms, or 2) marking up dialogue or conversation. This follows the <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/lists.html#h-10.3">W3C's recommentation</a>. Regardless, you could mark up the items/show page with definition lists and style accordingly, and it would work fine. </p> http://omeka.org/forums/topic/user-contributions#post-588 Wed, 13 Aug 2008 07:27:20 +0000 DaveLester 588@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>The contribution plugin was designed to accept specific item-types, which are hard coded into the plugin itself. The plugin's features reflect uses of the plugin to date, and there's currently no pre-packaged configuration file to customize that, and we have no plan to offer all DC metadata through this public-facing form.</p> <p>Luckily, Omeka is open source software and you can accomplish a lot by hacking some code. To accomplish what you're looking for, you'd have to modify the plugin, including the Contribution Controller and create a new partial for the item type. It's possible to add 'website' to the drop-down menu for the contribution plugin by following the example code from other item-types. And although the contribution plugin was not designed to allow users to enter all the associated metadata for items, it's once again possible to modify the plugin to do so.</p> <p>If you have specific questions about hacking the plugin I can help out -- best of luck. </p> http://omeka.org/forums/topic/user-contributions#post-586 Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:34:54 +0000 jpeg2000 586@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>This might not be the appropriate place for this question/comment, but I'm wondering if it's possible to add "website" to the options that a user can contribute with all the associate metadata that an admin-created item would have. </p> http://omeka.org/forums/topic/definition-list-tags-vs-h2-tags#post-570 Tue, 05 Aug 2008 19:18:12 +0000 myotus 570@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>I was wondering.... As I am working with Omeka and styling it, it seems to me that the metadata would be cleaner and better structured wtih Definition List tags rather than h2 tags both from styling and accessibility standpoints.</p> <p>&lt;b&gt;H2 Heading tag:&lt;/b&gt;<br /> <pre><code>&lt;div id=&quot;publisher&quot; class=&quot;field&quot;&gt; &lt;h2&gt;Publisher&lt;/h2&gt; &lt;div class=&quot;field-value&quot;&gt;&lt;p&gt;Minnesota Historical Society&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;</code></pre> <p>&lt;b&gt;Definition List tag:&lt;/b&gt;<br /> <pre><code>&lt;dd id=&quot;publisher&quot; class=&quot;field&quot;&gt; &lt;dt&gt;Publisher&lt;/dt&gt; &lt;dl&gt;Minnesota Historical Society&lt;/dl&gt; &lt;/dd&gt;</code></pre> <p>What are others thoughts on this? </p> http://omeka.org/forums/topic/suggestion-item-type-icons-and-medium-image#post-560 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:06:35 +0000 kkay 560@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>I think for my simple purposes your suggestion would work. I think I was stuck semantically focusing on 'full size' means the biggest version available. Which, as in your suggestion, is not true if you also link to the original. I just need to make sure I batch resize my originals to their max public size. </p> http://omeka.org/forums/topic/suggestion-item-type-icons-and-medium-image#post-557 Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:48:46 +0000 KrisKelly 557@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>Right now we have 3 different derivative image sizes that are created when you upload images through Omeka. The terminology we use is square thumbnail, thumbnail and fullsize. The thumbnail images seem straightforward, but the fullsize image actually refers to this mid-sized image that you are talking about. </p> <p>I think by default the 'fullsize' images are constrained to 600 pixels on a side, but you can change that when installing Omeka. You could have that sized to 500px instead, and then show it on your theme such that clicking it would display the archived image. </p> <p>Is that what you were thinking of? Or was it that you have the fullsize images already, but you want a smaller size that is in between that and the thumbnails? There is potential for a plugin to take care of that, though we'd probably have to make a few modifications to the way that plugins interact with the file uploads. </p> <p>Let us know if you have any more suggestions for how we can improve Omeka. Thanks! </p> http://omeka.org/forums/topic/suggestion-item-type-icons-and-medium-image#post-544 Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:31:26 +0000 JAnderson 544@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>i second the medium image size request! </p> http://omeka.org/forums/topic/suggestion-item-type-icons-and-medium-image#post-529 Mon, 14 Jul 2008 01:25:52 +0000 SheilaBrennan 529@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>kkay,</p> <p>Yes, we have considered having icons. And you're right, you certainly can upload an image first before the file if you are looking for an image. </p> <p>I'll be sure the development teams hears these suggestions for future releases. </p> <p>Thanks,<br /> Sheila </p> http://omeka.org/forums/topic/suggestion-item-type-icons-and-medium-image#post-525 Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:39:14 +0000 kkay 525@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>Here are two suggestions:</p> <p>1. Generic thumbnail icons for other item types (documents, audio, video, etc.) that can be used in browse/gallery view and on exhibit pages. Might the code be something like what is mentioned in the "link_href helper function" forum post?</p> <p>Somewhat tangential to this, we've gotten around this problem for documents by uploading a jpeg of the cover to get a thumbnail and then uploading a pdf.</p> <p>2. Adding a medium size image view with ImageMagick. I'd like to display a medium size image, say 400-500 px wide on the item record and then click for a larger full-size view. Messing with the database and ImageMagick makes me a little nervous.</p> <p>Thanks for your consideration. </p> http://omeka.org/forums/topic/site-title#post-519 Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:28:52 +0000 tmikk 519@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>Well, that was easy :-). Thank you Sheila, this was exactly that I was looking for.</p> <p>Tonu </p> http://omeka.org/forums/topic/site-title#post-518 Tue, 08 Jul 2008 02:25:24 +0000 SheilaBrennan 518@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>Hi Tonu, </p> <p>You can change the title of your site by going to the Settings tab when you're in the admin interface: yoursite.org/admin/settings/</p> <p>In the general settings, which is the first screen you see, the first text box is for the Site Title. Be sure to click the "Save Changes" button at the bottom of the page after you've renamed the site.</p> <p>Is that what you were asking about?</p> <p>Sheila </p> http://omeka.org/forums/topic/site-title#post-516 Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:19:49 +0000 tmikk 516@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>How do I change the site title to something other than the URL of the site?</p> <p>Thank you,<br /> Tonu </p> http://omeka.org/forums/topic/link_href-helper-function#post-475 Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:39:40 +0000 KrisKelly 475@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>Yes, there is already a link_to() function that does what your function does for most cases. You can't use it for inserting HTML into the tag, so there will probably be a link_to_img() helper that does something similar to what yours does. I would imagine that it would be something like: link_to_img($featuredItem, 'show', 'orange-btn.gif');. By the way, nice job on the that theme, it looks great! </p> http://omeka.org/forums/topic/link_href-helper-function#post-465 Fri, 06 Jun 2008 20:32:08 +0000 kyleroth 465@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>I added a function called <strong>link_href</strong> to ../helpers/Functions.php and it allows me to link image buttons to item pages. Is there a better way to code this with one of the current functions or would this be something beneficial to add to the global Functions page?</p> <p>Code in Functions.php:<br /> <pre><code>function link_href($record, $action=&#39;show&#39;, $text) { $path = $record-&gt;getPluralized() . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . $action . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . $record-&gt;id; return &#39;&lt;a href=&quot;&#39;. uri($path) . &#39;&quot;&gt;&#39; . ($text) . &#39;&lt;/a&gt;&#39;; }</code></pre> <p>Code on frontend:<br /> <pre><code>&lt;?php $orangebot = img(&#39;orange-btn.gif&#39;); ?&gt; &lt;?php echo link_href($featuredItem,show,&quot;&lt;img src=$orangebot border=&#39;0&#39; &gt;&quot;); ?&gt;</code></pre> <p>You can see the theme that I am developing here: <a href="http://euclidcorridor.dreamhosters.com/" rel="nofollow">http://euclidcorridor.dreamhosters.com/</a> </p> http://omeka.org/forums/topic/images-in-theme-layouts#post-464 Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:08:51 +0000 kyleroth 464@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>Thanks, Kris! </p> http://omeka.org/forums/topic/images-in-theme-layouts#post-463 Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:57:12 +0000 KrisKelly 463@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>Hi, you can get the URL to an image by using the img() helper function. Step 1 is to put the image in your images/ directory in your theme, then put an <code>&lt;img src=&quot;&lt;?php echo img(&#39;whatever.gif&#39;); ?&gt;&quot; /&gt;</code> where you want the image to show up in your theme. </p> http://omeka.org/forums/topic/images-in-theme-layouts#post-461 Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:20:43 +0000 kyleroth 461@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>I am building a theme and I just wondered if there is a way to add images to the page templates with a path to the theme? I know that I can put images into the CSS documents as background images, but some of the images need to be in the layout. I checked the paths.php file and could not find a variable for the path to the current selected theme there. I have also searched through the available themes to see if I could find an example of this, but I could not. </p> <p>Please advise. </p> http://omeka.org/forums/topic/available-themes#post-442 Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:00:18 +0000 kalbers 442@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>Sorry about that. Something must have happened during the compression. It should be good to go now. </p> http://omeka.org/forums/topic/available-themes#post-440 Fri, 30 May 2008 21:37:44 +0000 mem 440@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>Is the newly available Dark theme intact? When I download it, I get an archive with no files in the subdirectories. Trying to install it yields an error message: can't find common/header.php. Are my download attempts all corrupt or are there really no php files there?</p> <p>Thanks </p> http://omeka.org/forums/topic/next-item-in-collection#post-439 Fri, 30 May 2008 14:17:24 +0000 KrisKelly 439@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>Right now, link_to_next_item() and link_to_previous_item() don't know about how you found a particular item. Which is to say, next/previous runs through the whole archive and isn't based on a particular collection or tag, etc. That might be a good thing to add in a future release, but it would also work as a plugin. </p> http://omeka.org/forums/topic/next-item-in-collection#post-438 Thu, 29 May 2008 20:42:14 +0000 samipmallick 438@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>I see how to use the link_to_next_item or link_to_previous_item can be used to link to the next/previous item in the entire archive. But, is there a way to link to the next/previous item in the collection and avoid items that aren't in that particular collection? I'm pretty weak at php so any guidance would be much appreciated. Thanks!! </p> http://omeka.org/forums/topic/multi-line-option-for-credits#post-409 Thu, 08 May 2008 13:48:27 +0000 jgreenberg 409@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>In launching our first public Omeka exhibit, one thing that came up was the need to have multiple lines in the exhibit "Credits" field; one single wrapped line of text wasn't enough for our development dept. Could you bump the text entry field to a two-line textarea, and handle the "Credits" text the same as the "Description" text (i.e. using nl2p, nl2br, or whatever's being done)...thanks! </p> http://omeka.org/forums/topic/using-pdf-documents#post-379 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:49:50 +0000 patrickgmj 379@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>One work-around that I did for this issue is to go into the ExhibitFunctions.php file and add some code to exhibit_thumbnail so that, if there is no content inside the <a> tag (which is what happens with pdfs), it adds something like "Link to item", so at least a link to the item shows up.</p> <p>I was wondering, though, if there's a way to look up the Dublin core info for the item to make that link text more precise. Basically, is there a method on the $item that let's me grab dcterms:format info?</a> </p> http://omeka.org/forums/topic/using-pdf-documents#post-377 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 05:26:17 +0000 SheilaBrennan 377@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>Hi mdowns, </p> <p>Have you modified your items/show page in the design theme files to view the documents on your public site? </p> <p>In case you haven't seen them, there are instructions in our How To section: </p> <p><a href="http://omeka.org/codex/IPaper_plugin" rel="nofollow">http://omeka.org/codex/IPaper_plugin</a><br /> <a href="http://omeka.org/codex/PdfMeNot_plugin" rel="nofollow">http://omeka.org/codex/PdfMeNot_plugin</a></p> <p>As for exhibits, unfortunately the exhibit builder is not equipped with a document viewer, like you can use in the archive. Images will appear in your exhibits, but Omeka does not create thumbnail previews of PDFs.</p> <p>Hope this helps,<br /> Sheila </p> http://omeka.org/forums/topic/using-pdf-documents#post-373 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:26:47 +0000 mdowns 373@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>Two Questions/Comments about how to use PDF documents in an Omeka installation.</p> <p>1) On the individual item pages, I don't really like the way that the default setting ust puts it as a little tiny link at the bottom of the page. I installed the pdfmenot, but it significant limits the quality of the document. </p> <p>2) I have created exhibits, but when I try to put the pdf's on there, they do not show up. Instead of any document, I simply get little gray squares where there are supposed to be pdf files. In other exhibits, I images which work just fine. What can we do?</p> <p>Thanks for your help! </p> http://omeka.org/forums/topic/available-themes#post-359 Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:29:10 +0000 SheilaBrennan 359@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>Hi, </p> <p>By the end of this week, we should have a few other themes available for downloading. There will be a blog post announcing the release of the themes once they are officially available. </p> <p>These should help make your site "prettier."</p> <p>Sheila </p> http://omeka.org/forums/topic/available-themes#post-352 Tue, 15 Apr 2008 06:04:30 +0000 AJMillion 352@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>Alright, I'm back. Myself and a coworker have been messing around and had a little success. It's going to take me a little while to get comfortable, but I'll get there. The helper functions are nice too and I should be good to go. Of course, that won't be for a couple of months. No need yet.</p> <p>That said, I have one more question. I had mentioned on a previous thread that I am working on an early stage Digital Project for the University of Missouri Journalism School. Unfortunately, right now myself, another guy, and a Professor are the only ones working on it. We're strapped for everything but content; [I will flat out say that our content is awesome]. Hopefully, the want for other things will change at the end of the month, because we have a meeting with the department. Coincidentally, next year the school will be celebrating the opening of a brand new building and their 100th, 150th, er... some anniversary. A good opportunity to market the project, no? Our J-School is very well funded.</p> <p>Anyway, since we are strapped for time, cash, and experience I was wondering if anyone has advice regarding the quickest way to "clean up" on the display. The administrative side is great and we've got the necessary organization down. It would just be nice to have Omeka look "prettier." Any suggestions? Does anyone have any developed (or partially developed) themes laying around out there? If everything goes to plan we hope to create our own and submit it, but that's will be later on. We have to get everything working first. Otherwise we may be stuck. Coming here seemed like a quick way to maximize our punch come the end of April, and I'm sure some of you have been here before.</p> <p>If you have any questions or suggestions, by all means, e-mail me. </p>