Auto rounding images + categories??

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4/22/2010 5:39:40 AM
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Auto rounding images + categories??

Hi all,

Still very new to mojoportal but the more I get to learn what it can do the more impressed I am becoming - awesome job Joe!! smiley

I'm not sure if this should go into feature request (as it may already be possible!) but I was playing around with slides last night with a series of images and wondered if there was a way you could automatically round them.

It will be easier to show an example so if you look at www.gbwildlife.co.uk on the front page there are 5 images with rounded corners.  We had the site built a few years ago and the developers put a 'pictureframe' on all of the images so that we just upload normal 'square' images but because the picture frame has 4 images in it - one in each corner - that are shaped as what is left if you drew a square and cut a circle out of the middle then all the images appear rounded without having to pre round them in photoshop.......... So what I would like to do is create the same effect with mojoportal - the site currently runs on BlogEngine.net but in the long term I think I will look at moving it over to MJP.  

So I was wondering whether it would be possible to do this in a manner where you could either provide colour coded sets of the 4 images or do it at the same time as creating new skins........

Alternatively of course there may be better ways of doing the same?

On the subject of moving GBW over to MJP is there any way in MJP to mimic categories?  BE.net basically works by assigning posts to categories, each post can be assigned to one or more category and each category has a 'home page' that lists to last x number of posts as a summary, clicking on each post opens the post page e.g. http://www.gbwildlife.co.uk/category/news.aspx - is there a similar or alternative way to achieve a similar effect in MJP??

Cheers

Andrew

4/22/2010 6:35:21 AM
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Re: Auto rounding images + categories??

OK, since posting I have been reading up on more of the docs and inadvertantly came across a post with some category links down the side...... bit more investigation and a look at the online demo for a test shows me that a setup like I metioned with categories etc already exists in the blog part of the site........ looks, at first glance, like this relatively small part of MJP provides a very similar function BE.Net...... 

Also as mentioned above, my level of impressedness increases once more! wink

LOL! ....... and I just realised that I can edit my forum posts so can stop replying to myself! 

 

OK, after a bit more testing it looks very promising.  Is there a way to link to the category homepage or related topics and also would it be possible to implement an automatic link to 'related links' within the site.  As an example from GBW (which by the way is my wife and I's labour of love) if you look at these page http://www.gbwildlife.co.uk/post/April-2010-Kestrels-by-Lizzy-Dening.aspx all of the features are shown as links automatically.

4/22/2010 7:18:19 AM
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Re: Auto rounding images + categories??

Hi Andy,

Putting rounded frames around images is a very specialized request and as such not a priority to provide that out of the box, there are too many higher priorities to channel my efforts to something like that at this time. It is the kind of thing a developer could potentially add via javascript as a value added on top of existing functionality.

We do have categories in the blog currently, but on the road map we have plans to make a new more general purpose category system that can be used in any feature, and then we will replace the current blog category system with the new one.

Best,

Joe

4/22/2010 8:06:30 AM
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Re: Auto rounding images + categories??

Hi Joe,

Thanks for the reply, if I get anything up and running I will put it up on here.

Keep up the great work! 

Cheers

Andrew

Edit: Something like this should be along the right lines.. http://www.netzgesta.de/corner/

or this......

http://www.malsup.com/jquery/corner/image.html

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