I'm an Umbraco newbie and first of all, I'd like to thanks all of you who made it available. An amazing piece of software. I've being playing around with it for two days and just loving it, I'm comming from DNN and have a few portals I'd like to migrate to Umbraco.
I have a few questions and I hope somebody out there can help me with that.
A) Is there an extension/package that will allow me to have something similar to this slideshow: http://www.aspslideshow.com/ ? Basically what i need is to rotate between banners and have those banners linking to specific pages.
B) I need a image gallery where on one page the user will have a list of all galleries (with thumbnail and description), after enter a gallery, the user will be presented with the thumbnails and click on any one of them will open the image using a lightbox.
B.1) Automatically resize images on upload to a maximum size. If original is smaller than maximun size, don't resize.
C) A weather extension.
D) A RSS extension that will allow me to grab RSS feeds and associate it with a template.
I appologize for making so many questions at once but links to related documentation, extensions or any related information will be very helpfull. Thanks in advance.
I'll try to provide some answers to your questions.
A) Yes that should be possible. I think there a several options to achieve this either using Jquery or an ASP.NET user control. Maybe you could also have a look at this package, which should make it possible to rotate banners out of the box. http://our.umbraco.org/projects/wica-extensions-for-umbraco
B) This can easily be done using XSLT in combination with the lightbox script. In fact I think the gallery function from the Creative Website Starter package (CWS) by Warren Buckley is featuring this. You should be able to get it from that package, which is found in the repository. This will require that you install it though. If you wont bother looking at the CWS package (Since you are new to Umbraco I will recommend it, since there is alot inspiration and stuff for learning in it) you could also just have a look at this nice gallery package http://our.umbraco.org/projects/designit-gallery-package
B.1) Yes this can easily be done using Douglas Robar's ImageGen package, which is available within the Umbraco package repository. Allthough I'm not quite sure about the "smaller than maximum size, don't resize" thing. But I can't imagine that it would not be possible.
C) What do you imagine when you mention a Wheather extension? Is it a display of the wheather from a Yahoo feed for instance? In that case I think that this package from Bob Baty-bar is something to have a look at: http://our.umbraco.org/projects/mtt_weather
Content Rotator and Image Gallery
Hi there;
I'm an Umbraco newbie and first of all, I'd like to thanks all of you who made it available. An amazing piece of software.
I've being playing around with it for two days and just loving it, I'm comming from DNN and have a few portals I'd like to migrate to Umbraco.
I have a few questions and I hope somebody out there can help me with that.
A) Is there an extension/package that will allow me to have something similar to this slideshow: http://www.aspslideshow.com/ ?
Basically what i need is to rotate between banners and have those banners linking to specific pages.
B) I need a image gallery where on one page the user will have a list of all galleries (with thumbnail and description), after enter a gallery, the user will be presented with the thumbnails and click on any one of them will open the image using a lightbox.
B.1) Automatically resize images on upload to a maximum size. If original is smaller than maximun size, don't resize.
C) A weather extension.
D) A RSS extension that will allow me to grab RSS feeds and associate it with a template.
I appologize for making so many questions at once but links to related documentation, extensions or any related information will be very helpfull.
Thanks in advance.
Hi CodeMaster2008
I'll try to provide some answers to your questions.
A) Yes that should be possible. I think there a several options to achieve this either using Jquery or an ASP.NET user control. Maybe you could also have a look at this package, which should make it possible to rotate banners out of the box. http://our.umbraco.org/projects/wica-extensions-for-umbraco
B) This can easily be done using XSLT in combination with the lightbox script. In fact I think the gallery function from the Creative Website Starter package (CWS) by Warren Buckley is featuring this. You should be able to get it from that package, which is found in the repository. This will require that you install it though. If you wont bother looking at the CWS package (Since you are new to Umbraco I will recommend it, since there is alot inspiration and stuff for learning in it) you could also just have a look at this nice gallery package http://our.umbraco.org/projects/designit-gallery-package
B.1) Yes this can easily be done using Douglas Robar's ImageGen package, which is available within the Umbraco package repository. Allthough I'm not quite sure about the "smaller than maximum size, don't resize" thing. But I can't imagine that it would not be possible.
C) What do you imagine when you mention a Wheather extension? Is it a display of the wheather from a Yahoo feed for instance? In that case I think that this package from Bob Baty-bar is something to have a look at: http://our.umbraco.org/projects/mtt_weather
D) If I have understood this question correctly I think that this package by Darren Ferguson is capable of doing the job: http://our.umbraco.org/projects/feed-cache
Hope it's usefull :-)
/Jan
Hi Jan;
Thanks a lot man, you made my day.
Everything I need is right there.
It's enough to get me started for now.
Once again, thanks for your help.
Hi,
We have just releases Simpleviewer for Umbraco, available at http://our.umbraco.org//projects/website-utilities/simpleviewer-package-for-umbraco .
With this package you can use the www.simpleviewer.net gallery and pick the images from your media folder without writing a single line of code.
regards,
Pau
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