If you are going to build a website for yourself or a client, and it needs a large amount of images showcased, into a gallery format, Drupal is innovative software that will assist you in organizing and presenting your information. Drupal is perfect for graphic designers, photographers, web designers, painter, sculptors or artists.
A gallery online is the best way for professionals working in a visual medium industry to present and monetize their creations. Making the images obtainable in the form of downloads or products, is also an option.
Here we will look at the steps to developing an image gallery or portfolio website by using Drupal.
Requirements
To use these steps, a basic knowledge of Drupal is required. Additionally, a fresh installation of Acquia Drupal must be set up and ready for use.
You will be navigating specific sections and will have to type in your domain name where example.com is.
#1. Get Display Information Together
You can use the module manager in order to enable the modules below:
• Image (allow use of the images)
• Image Gallery (pre-made gallery)
• Image Attach (Ability to input images into pages)
• Image Import (Import a large amount of image files)
• CCK Content (Editing Images: Content Type)
• CCK Number (adding number fields Image types of content)
• CCK Text (adding new text fields)
The regular project displayed within a gallery type of website has exact fields that show on each project. Included in this would-be information, such as the actual image, the date it was created, image description, medium and title.
Review the work in its entirety and name the sorts of information which are essential to show for the items in the gallery individually. You don’t need to complete this if you only require a title and description.
#2: Import Images
You can upload the images by using the “Add image” function. By default, it will allow you to add your title and image description.
To upload images from your computer designate which gallery it belongs with. In the event, you have a lot of images you can begin with placing them in a folder on your hard drive to assist with organizing and accessing them. Then navigate to Image Import.
#3: Complete Informational Pages
Now is the time to begin creating your portfolio pages of your website. Normally, you begin with the regular pages such as the home, about you, contact information, terms and conditions and policies with respect to privacy.
In addition, you can indicate whether you want a certain page to be seen within the “Primary Links” or not. This is generally located at the top of each page.
#4: Handling Payments With Ubercart
Ubercart is free open source software you can use for selling products online and handling payments. In order to use this, you need PayPal or another gateway, as well as a SSL certificate for security.
For example, products you could sell are PDF reports, offline products like t-shirts, or digital products.
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