As a general thought, I noticed that quite some people have some resentment against using the photo gallery. Now I’m using it to show my portfolio and I want to be sure I’m using the right approach.
The great thing about the current setup is that I can use both thumbnails AND the large image through EE tags.
Some drawbacks I noticed:
- I don’t use tables, but I still had to use {row}{/row} to show all entries
- The URL segments were not compatible with the URL segments I use for the categories in the rest of the site, so I had to write some custom rules. Also so far I couldn’t combine the gallery with EE entries in the same page.
Now my question: would a similar setup be doable with regular entries? As I see it now, I would have to do custom work for each image in an entry, because the thumbnail and larger image are not addressable through EE tags. Or am I missing something? The point is that I can maintain my portfolio with ease and maybe combine it with other regular EE entries.