Building A Better Drupal Photo Gallery

There are a lot of ways to build a image gallery in Drupal, but most of them are very complicated, require users to make a view for each gallery, and don't end up looking the way you want.

Don't make them think!

For G.Willikers! Toy Store I set out to build a better photo gallery that would allow users to easily create new gallery pages and upload images to them – without having to know anything about cropping images or how to create a new view.

The end result is an new, previously undocumented (as far as I can tell) image gallery that is intuitive to use and easy to set up.

Check out the G.Williker's! photo gallery to see the final product.

 

Before I set out to build my own gallery, I tried all the modules, and read as many blogs and handbooks pages as I could. The problem with most modules is that they can't be easily customized. Other directions require you to create "image gallery" taxonomies and upload images individually, and then style the page with views making it impossible for an end user to do without serious training. This is what I found to be the easiest way.

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