stacybird
February 17th, 2008, 04:25 AM
Hey all- just got introduced to this site today... love it! Will definitely be linking here from my site :)
Anyway, I'm working with the basic xml gallery tutorial titled 'Create a Photo Gallery',
and everything it walked me through worked great, but I want to make an alteration and can't figure it out. I've inserted an image to help me explain:
http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/8834/exampleal2.jpg
Example 1 is what I successfully produced from the tutorial. There are 'next' and 'previous' buttons that move the user sequentially through the images. What I would like to do though is create a setup as in Example 2.
For this example, let's say I have 4 images to show in my gallery. Instead of having 'next' and 'previous' buttons, I would like to have 4 little buttons that, when clicked, load the corresponding image. This would allow users to jump between images as they pleased.
I looked at the thumbnail gallery tutorial thinking I could just designate my little icons per image instead of the typical thumbnail, but it seems there should be a more basic way? I mean, the arrow method comes so close... but instead of going back 1 or up 1, I need to tell it exactly which image to pull.
Sooo yah. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks for your time!
Anyway, I'm working with the basic xml gallery tutorial titled 'Create a Photo Gallery',
and everything it walked me through worked great, but I want to make an alteration and can't figure it out. I've inserted an image to help me explain:
http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/8834/exampleal2.jpg
Example 1 is what I successfully produced from the tutorial. There are 'next' and 'previous' buttons that move the user sequentially through the images. What I would like to do though is create a setup as in Example 2.
For this example, let's say I have 4 images to show in my gallery. Instead of having 'next' and 'previous' buttons, I would like to have 4 little buttons that, when clicked, load the corresponding image. This would allow users to jump between images as they pleased.
I looked at the thumbnail gallery tutorial thinking I could just designate my little icons per image instead of the typical thumbnail, but it seems there should be a more basic way? I mean, the arrow method comes so close... but instead of going back 1 or up 1, I need to tell it exactly which image to pull.
Sooo yah. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks for your time!