phpArcadeScript as a MultiMedia Gallery?

[MKJ]

Well I could see the potential for this script when I read all it's features.  I tried loads of gallery scripts and didn't like any of them.  A few hours work and I now have a marvellous gallery thanks to phparcadescript.  It works a treat  .  Bit unusual I know but maybe it will open the eyes of some of the developers to what the script can be used as.  It really could be a cracking multi-media gallery.  Firefox issues with the ability to stream certain files (unable to stream windows media files at the moment - flash ones are ok though) but hopefully that will be sorted very soon.  Check out how the phpArcadeScript Gallery is shaping up after just a few hours.  Click on this link My Site, and then use either the 'My Music' link or the My Practise Music' to see the Gallery.  As long as I am not breaking any script rules I will also install it as a games script too as I fancy having a bash at a couple of games.

Regards
Mark

PS: Should you want to know how to go about creating this gallery I will be writing a comprehensive guide shortly.  I need to sort out a few issues first though.

Edit:  Found a solution for Firefox not display windows media files or mp3's:

I found an easy solution to this.  Just use the custom code setting and put this into the code box:

Code:

<embed type="application/x-mplayer2" pluginspage="http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/MediaPlayer/" src="put the full url
of your file here" displaysize="4" name="MediaPlayer1" autosize="true" showcontrols="true" showstatusbar="1" enablecontextmenu="0"
invokeurls="false" autostart="true" height="420" width="500">

The above creates a 420 height by 500 width player which is quite large so adjust it as you want.    You can use the same code for mp3's too as Firefox won't run them either on my site.  Just change the height setting to 68 and alter the width anyway you want.

All working perfectly now 

[RevFourEleven]

Very nice layout. Compliments to you on getting it to look like an actual gallery instead of just a modified arcade script

[MKJ]

Very nice layout. Compliments to you on getting it to look like an actual gallery instead of just a modified arcade script

Thanks.  I have altered it again now - probably quite a bit since you visited.  I might even build my site around the gallery and use it as a home page as I think it is much more dynamic than my boring main site is now.  I might well use a sliding div menu at the top and incorporate a forum etc.

Direct access to the Gallery <----.

[KWELLY]

i LIKE IT NEED MORE ADVERTISEMENT AND MEDIA TTHOUGH LOOKS GOOD 
Im almost finish mine building a forum for it know where I can get one for my layout

[MKJ]

Well I have altered the look of the site a great deal now and installed a forum too, along with various other bits and bobs.  Time to get some content now  .  I think it looks fairly acceptable now as the front page of my site.  Hope so anyways?
Posted on: December 12, 2006, 11:23:24 AMUp all last night redesigning it.  Moved the boxes to different positions and added loads of shadow to them.  Also a pretty neat F1 Side Sliding Menu added.  Radically different Arcade Script now and I think beginning to look how I wanted it  .

[RevFourEleven]

Well, Im going to have to take back my comment about it looking so different, your new layout is slightly more arcade looking.

BTW, Im not sure that F1 sliding menu is a good thing. Visitors should be able to see your navigation instantly and not have to click something in order to view it or go to another page. And the ability to press F1 to open is not going to help as most of the time their hand is going to be on the mouse, not the keyboard.

Good Luck!

[MKJ]

BTW, Im not sure that F1 sliding menu is a good thing.

Well I agree with you.  Trouble is there is only so much room.  I have an auto-updating menu at the top so I have to put the site menu somewhere.  I think it is ok as there are enough references to it.  Will be making the site far more personal soon with references to friends and the like.  I think it will all come together perfectly.  You have a great script here for sure and I appreciate all the hard work that must have gone into it.  There are a few things though that I would like to see.  One thing that comes to mind right now it being redirected when login in.  Nothing happens at the mo and it leaves the user not sure as to whether he has logged in or not.  Maybe a redirect to a page saying so would be a good idea?

Regards - Mark
Posted on: December 16, 2006, 06:11:51 PMDone a lot of work on my site now.  Added various scripts that are now running off  a home server setup so that space isn't an issue anymore.  Running Coppermine and Jamroom.  Redesigned the site (and still doing so) to blend in with Jamroom.  I think the design is getting more appealing to musicians all the time.  Will be moving to a new domain name soon - bluesplayers.co.uk.  What do you think of my site development now?  I think it is starting to get a touch of class about it  .

[RevFourEleven]

Looking nice. I dont care much for the drop shadows on the tables, but thats just me.

[MKJ]

Looking nice. I dont care much for the drop shadows on the tables, but thats just me.

Well once I had started - when I had altered some other script which I  can't remember the name of now  - I just carried on and applied it to all the site. 

I must say that the 'Custom Page' ability is marvellous.  It has allowed me to include loads of different scripts such as my pretty impressive - and free! - MyGallery script.  Because it is embedded in the site it works perfectly.  It wouldn't work from inside an iframe though.  I always try and avoid the use of iframes though I have had to resort to using a few on the site so far.  But this 'Custom Page' is perfect and makes the phparcadescript really shine for evolving a site like mine.  I have introduced quite a number of attractions through it's use now.  I can't see me adding any more though but just concentrate on adding content now.  Visitors are growing daily.  Even though I am only using various videos from already established sites my site can offer something that theirs can't and that is the ability to concentrate on only one subject - music.  Their sites are full of all sorts of stuff and a viewer has to look through quite a bit of non-related items.  I do all that for them and only add stuff that is relevant.  Still I can only do this owing to the design of phparcadescript.  Sure am glad I decided to try and use it now  .

[MKJ]

The site has been radically altered now.  What do you think of the design now?  Bear in mind the script is being used to show videos, though there is an Arcade Section there too.  The design is being used throughout all the site though hasn't been completed yet - forum needs doing etc.

http://bluesplayer.co.uk/daoc

Regards - Mark