Easy Image Galleries with Gallery Assist

Getting your images into Drupal and onto your site can be trying to say the least. Drupal doesn't come with default image handling out of the box like other CMS's. However, there are many different options for adding your own images.

This is where prior planning of your site can make a huge difference. This post isn't going to include instructions about how to add images to posts or to your site. I will instead focus on creating image galleries using the Gallery Assist Module.

First, you need to download and install the module like you would any other module. Then you need to enable it as well.

Once enabled, you will see a new content type listed as "Gallery."

Create your Gallery content type which allows you to create a gallery. This could be "Beach Photos" or "Suzie's Wedding" or even "Company Picnic 2010". This gallery serves as a main container for your photos that will follow.

After creating the gallery, you can edit it just like you normally would any other content, including comment and publishing options.

When you edit it, you will be presented with a standard upload box where you can add your images to the gallery.

One caveat though, you must click "update" or your images will not be placed in the gallery before you save the content type from your editing.

This module by far seems to be the easiest way to get some great looking image galleries on your site. It doesn't require any additional modules, and can be easily customized with a myriad of options.

One thing I didn't like about it is that by default, there was no way to turn off the display of authoring information on individual images within the gallery.

Here is how I did it:

1. Locate the gallery_assist.module file within your Gallery Assist directory
2. Remove this line
   
   
   .submitted, .terms {
font-size:95%;
}

I also didn't like the file-names displaying next to each image, so I just deleted the names from the submission box after uploading them.

The author of the module has noted this and has offered to add this functionality to the next update to the module.

I used the module for these galleries.