Oh hell yes, redesigning the Sample Gallery. Aside from the challenges to keep it updated, since I'm still a working Art Guy, the work does accumulate. Some of it is even pretty good stuff. In addition, the tehnology, especially with mobile, just keeps ripping along.
This third interation of the page redesign uses the quite nice and impressively versatile Cube Portfolio JQuery pugin implemented in the Bootstrap 4 framework.
I will honestly own that redesigning the Sample Gallery presented some real challenges. Aside from updating the content with more recent samples, the previous version of the Gallery was done with a 2003 awareness of coding technology and skill set – tables and tags and a linear format. But that's hardly cutting edge or classy or what I want now, and worst — not responsive, along with the rest of the site. There are hundreds of gallery and lightbox modules, but I want to use most, if not all the existing graphics, and not have to re-code the entire gorram thing from scratch and re-do all the art. This is even more complex as I want to show both the graphics and HTML content, be more randon access, and... yadda yadda.
We'll see how things work out. But the plugin has a lot of appealing options. Am I thinking out loud on a public-facing page? Why yes. Yes, I am.
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