I18N Gallery - Thumb making

[mvlcek]

I guess what I'm trying to build is a very simple photo blog, but I just haven't been able to wrap my head around the blog, news, and item manager plug ins. They all seem too complicated when all i want is a simple way to call thumbnails of child pages, and put a previous and next button on the child pages themselves. I want the links to go to actual pages, not just the image itself.

So here are basically I am trying to find the simplest way to...

1: I want to set up several stand-alone galleries for different categories of my artwork. On each master category page I just want to have the links to the artwork sub pages be rows of custom thumbnails that I set up on that category's child pages using your i18N custom fileds plugin.

2: I want to put "previous & next" buttons on each individual art page as well. The pages will be self contained in their own categories, (i don't need the previous and next button to jump to the next category in line.)

3: When it goes to the page displaying the individual image and information, is there a way to make the image enlarge, like a gallery pop up effect? (The photo enlargement isn't a high priority because i could just link it to open full size in a new window, but a pop up effect would look more professional.)

Once again, I appreciate your help and expertise.

Sorry for answering late, but I just saw this post.

OK, what about this:

• install I18N Special Pages
  
• create a special page type gallery with special fields thumbnail (image field). Set a custom view HTML/PHP, where you use return_i18n_search_results(...) to search for all pages of this category (from tags), compare them with the current page and display links to the previous and next gallery.
  
• create the galleries
  
• for each gallery create a special page - use the tags to specify a category and include the gallery on it
  
• for each category create a page which includes a (% searchresults addtags=_special_gallery tags=the_category component=gallery-index %)
  
• create a component gallery-index which specifies how to display a thumbnail/link to a gallery page.