I tried to convert the famous stopdesign theme from Douglas Bowman to zenphoto. I had to modify one zenphoto file to make it work, but maybe there are still some bugs.
What do you think of it?
Should I make a real theme for zenphoto out of it and do you know if it is legal to do it, because the original theme is published under Creative Commons License on stopdesign.com.

Here is the link to my gallery:
www.bleecken.de/bilder/

Looks awesome, thanks for the work. Since things will change in the upcoming 1.0 release, you may want to wait until that, but i'd say it would be worth making into a theme.

(it is legal to do it)

Oh my gosh that's beautiful. Someone send it to Doug Bowman and get him to switch ;-)

I would say that most of the template functions should be the same, but you may have to make minor modifications to the theme for 1.0. No big deal, keep up the great work.

This is just awesome! You really should release this. :) I'm gonna wait till 1.0, I guess. When is it coming out?

Wow. That's really nice.

Can't wait for 1.0

Great work. Can't wait for it to be released.

I think I will release it tomorrow for 0.9. I have to translate it to english, make some changes to the code and write an installation guide.

The theme is ready for download:

www.bleecken.de/bilder/stopdesign.zip

To install the theme read the instructions in install.txt.

This is like zp a beta-release! If you find bugs or have any other problems, please write them into this forum.

Thanks a lot sjard! Very nice. :)
Can we customize this theme?

@ bk
You can customize the theme, but you have to pay attention to the cc license in the install.txt.

Oh, right. Thanks!

[b]sjard[/b] - could you please outline the changes you made in the /zen directory so I can add the functionality you need to the release? It looks like you just want custom sized thumbnails specified from the theme, which I can do.

I'm getting a link problem. Starting from the main gallery page with its list of recently updated albums, I select an album. Then I select the index page for the site from the breadcrumbs at the top of the page. That takes me to a page where the link ends "page/1" and the recently updated albums. If I now select Gallery Archive (with the link ending "page/archive.php" I get an empty page with "Album page does not exist." Should that link not be /archive.php?

I had that problem Splodge. I switched to the default theme, then back again to Stopdesign and it worked. Still not sure why it didn't work the first time.

i'm currently using this - it's a very nice theme! though i have one minor problem. my photos' descriptions are somewhat hiding behind the pictures and i can't really figure it out :\ any ideas?

@ trisweb
I made two small changes, to display the thumbnails on the first page in a different size. I will outline them for you today or tomorrow and release a new version. (What I would need is a function that crops and displays the album thumb in different size than in the config.php)

@bk
I made some changes in the /zen directory to display the different sized thumbnails on the mainpage. So there is no function in the config.php to make different thumbnail sizes. It's a hack I did in the zen/i.php and zen/template-functions.php files. I hope this answers your qustion.

@splodge and @shaghaghi
I can't test the theme with mod_rewrite and so this may be a problem to fix. I will take a look into the source and try to fix it.

@jammxz
The design breaks when you are logged into the admin area. It is still a bug and i will fix it in the next release. If you log out from the admin area, the photo descriptions are shown correct.

[b]Download & Installation Guide:[/b]

www.bleecken.de/zenphoto/ (english)

[b]Example Gallery:[/b]

www.bleecken.de/bilder/ (german/english)

Great work! There is one annoying problem - when viewing the photos in a gallery and clicking on the thumbs to navigate to the next, the scroolbar disappears then reapperas with the new photo. This creates an unpleasant visual effect. This is on a 1024px screen, perhaps on others it is not visible. Would it be possible to fix this problem?

That effect is due to Firefox (I assume this is the browser you are using, since IE has a scrollbar visible permanently) not knowing how tall the picture is going to be until it has downloaded the image header.

On very tall displays, no scrolling would happen and the scrollbar would be always hidden, and on very short displays it would probably have a scrollbar right from the start.

The proper way to fix this would be for the ZP image writing functions to include the height and width of the image in the tag.

I'm going to include those functions in the next release... they're very helpful in several cases.