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Excelent plugin/mambot for any site. Easy and quick intallation/implementation.

I'm having a little problem with the pop up, I only get a blank /white image, size is right thoug... I'll look into this asap.

Thanks!

Great job on this. Just what the doctor ordered. I found a small code fix however in the plugin_jw_sig.php file that will keep the title (alt) text that shows when you hover your mouse over the thumbnail from showing the html code i.e. "You are browsing images from the article:Article Title.

It does it on the demo site also.

Just change this part of the code:

$html .= ' IE7 and Firefox.

Anyway, as I said before I love the flexibility of this plugin and I think it's a must have if you have any type of picture gallery in Joomla. Great Job!

I tried the first version, but had some problems getting images to display full size when you clicked on them. This one is a big improvement, and very easy to use. But it's a little confusing for the site visitor. When you click on the image, the popup comes up at the very top of your screen, where you could only see a small portion of the larger image if your gallery is further down the page. And it's not clear that you can click on another image and get the image to open in that same window. If you click close, it actually closes the full article and you have to go back to the full version to see the gallery and additional photos. There needs to be some additional controls on there or explanation when the popup window displays. If the gallery could somehow be set to create a full version slideshow fading from one photo to another full size, that would be classy, however. All in all, however, you've done something that many of us Joomla lovers have wished for!

I've just used this plugin / mambot inside my component to help display some images. I think the author writes very tools, as we are about to use the Ajax Newsflash tool as well which is also excellent and we already have the All Videos Plugin. I quite heavily modified this so suit my needs and it works excellently. Very good quality util, works flawlessly out of the box. Excellent.

Well done for all the excellent work.

One thing for anyone having a problem showing the thubnails of the images.
I can't tell in which part of the server the error was, but I had no thubnails of my gallery and no errors from joomla.
Because, I don't own the server, I adjusted the file "showthumb.php", in the folder "plugin_jw_sig", by hard-coding the image gallery's path in the "$_image_" variable in line 7.

Thanks again for an excellent plugin.

As it says, very simple to use

As said before in the reviews, a few options to choose from would be great, but it has to stay simple

Really love the aptly titled simplicity of this plugin, works as advertised and outputs attractive functional galleries. Newest 1.1 irons out all the major issues mentioned before.

The people at JoomlaWorks are turning out some great Joomla addons, quick with upgrades, attentive to improvements and prompt and polite in answering questions about their products.

i searchs long time such a plugin! it's near perfect, but it's new.

my wishes for the next versions:

- option to set number of cols
- option to write a little more informations for each picture

Thanks alot for this Plugin! I'll donate joomlaworks as soon as possible!

I really like this plugin because of its simplicity.
I'm now trying to combine this plugin with your sliders & tabs plugin. When using tabs, the images are shown correct.
However, when using the gallery inside a slider, only the backgrounds (shadows) are shown and not the images themselves. It would be fantastic if this would be solved.

Very useful plug-in. It's easy to setup and run too.

My galleries looks fine (in Firefox) but the big pictures are opened in a full new window, with no alpha effect. I've tried to disable other javascripts, but there's no conflict. In IE I can't even get the page. I got an strange error message instead. My source code looks exactly the same as Joomlaworks demo does.

This is a fantastic, easy to implement plugin. A couple of suggestions, though to make it a little better:

1. Ability to use the lightbox image set technique to go between photos directly from within the lightbox.
2. Ability to place image folders anywhere within the site instead of only as folders/subfolders within images/stories.

One small bug that I have seen is when displaying images of various sizes and orientations, the thumbnail shadow boxes don't align properly with some images.

Other than that - what a GREAT PLUGIN! I look forward to the next release.

Tried this and would love to get it to show correctly in IE, but it does not greyout site as it should, in Firefox it works great, correct thumbs and all, but in IE, when you open the same, it's clipped....any ideas would be great on how to fix this. Email for link to site to see IE problems

Simple and easy!

The best gallery solution for a "news" website.

Just a suggestion to give a 10:
Please, consider to make a JCE plugin too, this way editors can just click the gallery icon at JCE toolbar, try to imagine something like this - a popup opens with "Choose gallery folder" option, the editor can browse at server and finally click the "insert gallery" button. The WYSIWYG editor window can shows a colored bar to indicate where gallery starts, and the HTML editor window shows the plugin tags with folder path.

This is a total snap to install, and use, and looks great.

Questions/Issues...
I get an error on each page that reads "Notice: Undefined offset: 15 in .../plugin_jw_sig.php on line 59." How can I make that go away?

I have image sizes and aspect ratios that are not uniform. Sometimes the thumbnail does not fit in the shadow box for which it is intended (additional white space shows up between the right edge of thumbnail and the shadow box). I get better results when I resixe the original image to an even multiple of the target thumbnail width. Is there a better solution?

If a thumbnail is shorter (vertically) than the one next to it, S.I.G. drops in another thumbnail below it in the same row. Great idea, but a problem can/does show up because this is a progessive feature. At the end of a row (on the right), the stack can grow up to 3-5 thumbnails high with TONS of white space left under the first thumbnails on the left.

Perhaps a solution would be to track the height of the tallest individual thumbnail in the row, and double up below short thumbnails only if there is room for it (without increasing the min row height required for the tallest individual thumbnail).

Great work. Wish I was a programmer so I could help out.

bertm

I don't believe the rating, 'Excellent' is high enough for this plugin. It installed into my version of Mambo (4.5.3h)with no problem, it came with more then enough instructions in the 'bot' to get me started and within moments after the install, I was adjusting the size and quality of the viewable thumbnails...OUTSTANDING! The use of this 'bot' is just about endless and I see many ways of incorporating it into my sports web site. Once again...THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!
p.s. may I say 'Thank You' one more time...

Your plugins and addons are really consistently usable and well put together and this is no different. I spent quite a while working with multithumb which while powerful frequently stopped working for strange server-side reasons. This gallery is smooth as butter and looks great but as with all really usable addons you soon begin to wish for a few features like ordering and Lightbox navigation as mentioned earlier.

I'd also like to remove the "jpg" reference in the title but unlike F.Filo can't negotiate the code! Very minor gripes then. Good work again. Many thanks

The plug-in is very simple to use. Interface is very nice but I get the following error message on the pages where thumbnails appear:
Notice: Undefined offset: 5 in /mysite/mambots/content/plugin_jw_sig.php on line 59

Very nice plugin, easy to use with excellent layout results.
I suggest for next version:

- make "title" more friendly (not just the image file name)
(I've modified file plugin_jw_sig.php to do that)
- use selected images in content definition or specific folder (right now) like image files source

Bye

This is so simple to use it's a real pleasure! Just set a folder, add the atg to content, and you're good to go.
I gave it a quick test: one thing to note is PNGs come out very bad looking from the process, better to avoid, jpg and gif are fine.
I'd suggest adding
1. the usual recommendation to publish the bot after install, and
2. the tags to use at the top of all the other text you see on edit screen!
well done, Greece 10 points ;)

You guys at JoomlaWorks are creating quality stuff. This latest gallery comes seriously close to what I’m looking for. However, not everyone is a fan of the “lightbox.” For starters, it is cumbersome to click on and off again to see the next large image. Yes, I know this is a “simple” image gallery and it seems to be another well executed plug-in for the Joomla architecture. If there were a simple navigation within the “lightbox” to go to the next or previous large image, then it would be 9.0; if there was JavaScript alternative to viewing the large images in a resizable pop-up with simple next/ previous and slideshow/ stop slideshow control, then it would 9.5. A “perfect 10,” in my opinion, would be to add a function for registered users to create their own albums via the front end. Of course, this would no longer be a “simple image gallery” but I would pay money for it.