In the media section of person page you see thumbnails of images associated with the person. Currently if you want to browse through the images associated with the person in large size, you have to click the first thumbnail, which opens a media gallery with that particular image activated. Then to see the next image of that person, you will have to go back to the previous page with the thumbnails, and then click the next image. You would then have to repeat this process over and over, and you will have to keep in mind which image you clicked the last time.
To make it easier to browse through large size images of a person, I suggest there would be a way to click âpreviousâ or ânextâ to go to the next image, just like you can browse through all the images mixed up in the ârootâ media gallery.
Is it possible to include a âpersonalizedâ media browser without the need to create lots of new html pages? Maybe even optionally include it in the person page itself? Although I can see that such browser couldnât maybe include that neat feature showing references overlayed on top of the image. Iâm thinking things like How To Create a Lightbox
While it might be doable, I donât think it would be easy, and I would certainly want it to be optional. With over 15,000 media objects in my database, it already takes about 15 hours to generate a narrated web site on my computer, and I suspect it would add considerably to that to do what you are suggesting. Also, because the narrated website only uses static pages, that could potentially add a large number of pages, and my site hosting company limits the number of inodes, and I am already approaching the limit without any optional pages included.
On the other hand, the dynamic website (an optional add-on) already does this.
I continue to use both the narrated website and dynamic website because Iâve found advantages and disadvantages to both, particularly in the way media objects are handled. The dynamic website has the separate galleries associated with individuals while the references section of media pages in the narrated website is much more useful. But I suspect that is also the reason it takes so long to generate a narrated web site, and I doubt that most users of the narrated website really care about the references section.
Currently, if you click on a thumbnail, you get an html page with a photo.
If you have multiple people in this photo, you can click on the person you are interested in and see their data
With the lightbox, Iâm not sure we can do that.
I had checked the dynamic web report long ago but I had forgotten it. It indeed seem to support individual galleries like this. I also tested it whether it supports the language I would be generating it and it does support it, but not the same way as narrated website. I canât choose it from the settings, but I just have to launch gramps in my local language and then generate the report and it will be in this language. Also for my person pages I like them kind of compact, and was actually a bit put off when in the dynamic web report demo the person pages seemed even âlongerâ than in narrated, but now I discovered this âtabbedâ mode which is quite nice. With narrated website I have experimented hiding the âfamiliesâ and âparentsâ subsections in css and in some way boost âpedigreeâ subsection as I find that one nice and compact. I will still a bit later have to test the dynamic web report on mobile and try host it locally to see if the openstreetmap works as expected.
Yeah, all what you are saying about implementing this individual media gallery in narrated website was kind of what I was afraid to hear, not easy and has its possible downsides.
Nice to hear that in 5.2 you can toggle sections. That reminded me of a related thing that I have been thinking about. No need to take it seriously if itâs not something that anyone else would be interested but for increased customization it would be nice to be able to re-arrange the sections.
Then one more customization that I was thinking was to be able to show birth and death dates of people just after their names in pedigree section. Again, probably very limited use case so no need to care about this one unless it seems reasonable.
Why I was thinking about those features is that I was thinking ways to make the person page more compact. The pedigree section almost includes the same info as the families and parents sections. So if you can visualize the person page where the families and parents sections are removed and the pedigree section is moved up just below events section, or even above events section. Then the customization to show birth and death dates is added after the person names in the pedigree.
What I want to accomplish with this compactness is that imo it increases readability, and pedigree section is one of the better ways for âpeople jumpingâ. You can quickly jump from person to person and you donât have to stop thinking so much âhow should I go to read the page of x nextâ if you know how they are related to the current person.
This is going a bit too much off topic but I want to mention one other thing. The current narrated websiteâs person page doesnât have a working horizontal scrolling on mobile, and some of the information goes out of bound (partly ancestor graph and some text). I tried with all the themes available and I have the problem in all of them. I asked about this from therijn in an e-mail exchange, since that problem is not happening on their website that they have generated with their WebReportRWD plugin. Also I can fix (or add) the narrated websiteâs horizontal scrolling by copying the narrated-screen.css flie from their website (link can be found from this page) 0010341: Narrated Web Site Report - responsive design - Gramps - Bugtracker â Free Genealogy Software Maybe there is some one css rule that could fix it but still not sure. Extra note that the ancestor graph is too much zoomed in imo especially on mobile browser.
The dynamic web report plugin that I tried yesterday doesnât have a good fast way for âpeople jumpingâ imo, so there is maybe more potential in the original narrated website. There is the âtreeâ page, but maybe a bit unintuitively you have to right click in the tree view the person to be able to jump to a person page. Also you need extra click to get to the tree etc.
Do you think I should create a separate thread on some of these things I mentioned?
This page is available in six languages, but only the french one provides this feature.
This page is for a website with the toggle sections.
If you want to test it without this option, remove the âwtâ to Gramps52wt.
That could work! The dynamic website approach is a bit better though as there you can see the references on and below the large image. Maybe the narrated website could copy the dynamic approach in some sense. They are using just one media.html file but the gallery is showing only images of given person. Example: Person - Example using template âDefaultâ
In media page the URL has media.html?p=person.html&idx=671&mdx=1&simg=%5B1%2C2%5D identifiers for example.
However if changing it to that kind of approach requires too much work, I guess what you demoed on your example is still a good way to browse images of one person. The downside could be that if someone wants to see details (or overlay references) of the image, they have to click the large image, and it may not be as intuitive as in the original where you saw this information right after clicking a thumbnail. What do others think about this?
Is it possible to modify the page generator so that when it comes across other than image filetypes it wonât add those lightbox related classes or tags to those media items so they wonât be part of the lightbox yet their links/thumbnails would show up in the media section normally, or would that complicate things too much.
Apart from lightbox there are similar tools but with more features, like colorbox or fancybox. They can show videos, html and iframes, but not pdf though so I guess they are not helping.
Also I have still been thinking about the order of sections, and in addition what I said earlier about the possibility to re-arrange sections, I think the media section may be the most interesting section for many people if there happens to be media, especially images.
Looking at your example gramps52wt, it may look a bit boring for a casual guy who is browsing the website. A simple change where the media section would appear right there on top just below the summaryarea and perhaps even by default toggled visible, while all other sections below it would be toggled hidden like they are now would make it feel lively when I visualize it in my head.
So⌠yet another thought. If you could choose from the generator settings the order of sections and also choose whether they are visible or hidden by default. And then this lightbox feature that you show in the gramps52wt combined, then I think it would allow you to create quite nice person pages to many tastes.
Then in my perfect world there would be couple rows in the end of summaryarea dedicated to birth parents and children for quick âpeople jumpingâ access without the need to toggle visible any sections. I think they could be considered to be part of that summary information and be justified to exist there. Perhaps in the page generator settings there could be a toggle for summaryarea: âextended summary - show birth parents and children in summaryâ or similar. These couple rows wouldnât of course show any details of parents or children, just names listed one after another on the same row. If you look at geni.com for example, itâs easy to do âpeople jumpingâ when the parents and children information is right at the top.
The horizontal scrolling (where needed) in Gramps52wt example seems to work better on mobile than in the current version. Those two image thumbnails in the media section overlap a little bit each other on mobile though.
Is it possible for me to generate a website using Gramps52 or Gramps52wt somehow? I am working on a lot of images. There will be maybe even over 1000 on my site. Itâs gonna be a test for having a site with living people (my close relatives). Iâm currently scanning and organizing a lot of pictures. It will be maybe after one month when Iâm about to generate the website.
Yeah I have been thinking of learning how it works and maybe contribute a little. Or maybe I create a script for some minor post-installation modifications, for example to toggle on/off certain sections by default.