Hi-

First post.

I am setting up an online portfolio at a site I have. Currently I am using the deviant art portfolio engine and it is too limited. I've looked about and think that GetSimple will meet my needs.

I've programmed in php, developed extensions for the serentipity blog engine (www.s9y.org) and am aware of CSS and different markup languages (smarty, managing vBulletin forums).

I've poked about in the sample themes and am a bit confused how to do what I want in GS. I've made some mockups.

I've figured I want a standard header and footer, and read how to accomplish that by creating separate php files and including them, but am confused about the content stuff.

I want the landing page to look like this:
http://www.cartocopia.com/temp/cartocopi...0index.png

Which I assume would not use any template tags.

I want the about page to look like this:
http://www.cartocopia.com/temp/cartocopi...%20bio.png

Which again is pretty much all static stuff.

I want a contact page:
http://www.cartocopia.com/temp/cartocopi...ontact.png

and I think I can use GS template tags for that?

I want to make each

got cut off...!


I want to make each "article" to be one portfolio entry and will construct them the same way:
http://www.cartocopia.com/temp/cartocopi...rticle.png

The think I can't figure out is how to create my porfolio index page (which is really the links to all the articles):
http://www.cartocopia.com/temp/cartocopi...tfolio.png

The idea was that just adding an article would create a new entry on the graphical portfolio page.

Any suggestions on the best way to structure this?

If you think GS is not the appropriate framework, please let me know.

Thanks,

-Rob A.

Landing page: you have to use jquery's slider or carousel. There are plenty of them on interwebz, so pick yourself the one, which will fit your taste.
Edit index page, enter source editing mode and place all content you want.

About & contact page are just normal pages. Nothing to do here.

Each article as one folio entry: this might be a little bit tricky, and needs some adjustments to additional plugin.
Look at news plugins, as I think those should do the job.
You might as well create 1 page for 1 entry, and then inject whole content of every article on 1 page, using a simple php loop and a hack to place content of other pages (you have to search on forum, as I don't remember what plugin/hack/thread was responsible for this)

on GS 2.03 there's a new tag get_page_excerpt(). You'd have to mess with it a little bit, to use it for showing certain content.
Read docs, and you will get some useful knowledge


I'm looking forward to see your solutions, as I'm about creating something similar in near future

I've got things running almost the way I want them and just am adding content.

The site is sitting at: http://www.cartocopia.com/index/ if you want to take a look.

As suggested, I made the index.php header load up javascript that looks for a gallery div, and pulls all the images from it to display as a slideshow. To edit the images I just edit the page content.

The contact form is using the p01 contact form plugin (thanks!)

The Maps portfoio page has only the only line as content