• Registered: 2014-10-23
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Topic: create a page of tumbnails that index a series of galleries

At present Im using an html table of thumbnail images which you can click on to go to various galleries, looks fine but a pain to maintain and update. Wondered if it is possible to create a page of thumbnail image (possibly with some sort of caption for each) that could index a series of galleries using jukebox pro or would this be better done another way

  • Registered: 2012-04-24
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Re: create a page of tumbnails that index a series of galleries

With Juicebox, you can create as many individual galleries as you like but you would need to link them together manually (as you are currently doing) using techniques such as those in the Embedding Multiple Galleries support section.
Juicebox-Pro does not come with any automated method of linking together multiple galleries.

You could perhaps use the solution from this forum thread whereby thumbnails are turned into links to different gallery pages (so a single gallery gallery could act as an index to other galleries) but please bear in mind that Juicebox was not designed with this in mind and you may run into unforeseen problems (and it may take just as much maintenance as your current method).

An alternative solution would be to use another one of our products: Showkase.
Showkase is a PHP web application which would allow you to create a complete portfolio web site online using a web browser interface.
Showkase has full support for Juicebox-Pro and the galleries can be created within the application itself (or created with JuiceboxBuilder-Pro and then imported into Showkase).
You can create gallery index pages and have as many galleries listed on each index page as you wish.
Each gallery is represented by a thumbnail image with the gallery title displayed below and the gallery is opened when the user clicks on the image.
(Showkase also has the ability to create non-gallery pages such as 'About', 'Contact' and 'Basic' pages where you can enter information about yourself and contact details.)

All of this is done automatically within the interface without the need for any manual coding at all.
If you would like to take a look around the Showkase interface, you can log into the Live Demo Admin here.

Demo sites can be found here and a sample Gallery Index page can be found here.

Showkase can be purchased as Showkase-Standard (which comes with Juicebox-Lite and SimpleViewer-Standard, the free versions) or Showkase-Pro (which comes with Juicebox-Pro and SimpleViewer-Pro). The only difference between Showkase-Standard and Showkase-Pro is the bundled viewers.
As you already have Juicebox-Pro, you could purchase Showkase-Standard and upgrade it to use your Juicebox-Pro files by following the instructions here.

I hope you find this information useful.