Marco Luthe Online!

I LOVE the FAlbum plugin… and that makes it really hard for me, but…
I finally decided to deactivate it!

While designing my own WordPress theme, I could not really manage to get the layout right – it has to do with the CSS used to create the typical FAlbum layout.

My theme uses a three column layout. The left and right sidebar are implemented in the main index template BEFORE the actual main content is shown, using “float: left” for the left sidebar and “float: right” for the right sidebar. This is a typical CSS usage.

The FAlbum CSS layout messes with this because it makes massive use of the “clear: both” attribute. That way, the content created by Falbum will always show BELOW the left and right sidebar, therefore leaving a big gap at the top.

I managed to get rid of that behaviour for the main view where all albums are shown, but while e.g. showing a single photo, that odd behaviour still occurs. It might be possible to get the layout right when you dig a little deeper into the code, but I just had no patience to do so.

That’s why there is no more FAlbum use on my site…

Instead, I set up a link on my photos page that directs you to my flickr page.
(Using Slickr Gallery now, see my photos page.)

Farewell, FAlbum… you did a good job so far!