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Here at the agency we have a version of our TV reel on DVD that I created, categorized by budget. We've found it helpful on a few occasions to give clients an idea of what we can do for a given amount of money. Recently, I was asked to put this version of the reel online, so people could view it that way instead, which was a good idea. You can check it out here for reference.
This was meant to be done in a day or two and there were too many spots to hard-code, so I started looking around for pre-fab YouTube galleries (all of these spots are on YouTube). There seems to be a few really huge, elaborate ones, and one or two really simple ones. What I wanted was something in between because I needed to be able to horse around with it and get it to do a couple things the way I wanted.
So, I mashed together two separate things I found: the PHP Simple YouTube Gallery found at Webarto.com to generate the thumbnails and create links, and Fancybox to create a lightbox effect. With some further modification to allow captions and to use the new YouTube embed style, it does exactly what I need.
This was meant to be done in a day or two and there were too many spots to hard-code, so I started looking around for pre-fab YouTube galleries (all of these spots are on YouTube). There seems to be a few really huge, elaborate ones, and one or two really simple ones. What I wanted was something in between because I needed to be able to horse around with it and get it to do a couple things the way I wanted.
So, I mashed together two separate things I found: the PHP Simple YouTube Gallery found at Webarto.com to generate the thumbnails and create links, and Fancybox to create a lightbox effect. With some further modification to allow captions and to use the new YouTube embed style, it does exactly what I need.