Building and Theming a Portfolio Gallery with Drupal 7

The ultimate guide to the most popular image and jQuery effects for Drupal. If you want to learn how to add lightbox effects, image carousels and rotating banners to your Web sites, look no further than this guide.... and the best part is that you don't have to be a programmer to add these effects to your site.

The package includes detailed step-by-step instructions to help you set up a web site which includes the following features:

• Multiple custom image sizes to for highly customized page layouts and gallery pages.
• In-browser cropping of images so that you don't have to photoshop your images before uploading them to your Web site. Perfect for dealing with automated image resizing that is prone to chopping off heads.
• Slick jQuery effects for adding a rotating banner of images to your site.
• Carousel gallery layouts with integrated light box effects.

Although this guide covers the step-by-step technique of how to build your own portfolio site, you can easily adapt the instructions to add these effects to any Drupal Web site.

Want to see a sample of what's in this guide? Download the Preview (PDF file). Note: Approximately every other page has been removed from this preview version of the workbook.

This workbook covers Drupal 7 was originally produced for the Site Building Extravaganza program. You will be learning how to build this site.

Bonus! This guide includes the full theme used to build the sample site. The Javascript libraries are also included so you don't need to go hunting around the web for them separately. You are welcome (and even encouraged!) to use this theme on any site you build--free or commercial.