Canecane.com powered by K2
Info:
Joomla v 1.5.15
K2 v
2.0
Features:
Backend
ACLDifferent
level access for the two user groups
Administrator
every user of
this group has access to all K2 categories and items.
Artists
every
user of this group can access to Artists category and can create just one item and then edit it every time he/she needs to.
ItemsIn
order to create a new item the user have to choose a category first, otherwise he/she will get an error message. We had to implement this control because the client needs to show different tabs in the item form based on the category.
If the user is an Artist he/she will be able
to see the Artists category only.
In addition to the classic K2
item tabs (content, image, video, gallery, attachments and extrafields) we added:
1) Video gallery
the user can add one or more videos
for each item and assign to each video a title and a description. The
videos can be uploaded or embedded via provider (just like the one
provided by K2)

2) Audio gallery
the user can add one or more audio files for each
item and assign to each audio file a title and a description.

3)
Picture gallery
the user can add one or more pictures for each item
and assign to each picture a title and a description.

4) Artists
gallery
the user can add one or more artist mini profile (a picture
of the artists, his/her name and role and a brief description).

5)
Awards gallery
the user can add one or more awards (a picture of the
award, the venue and a brief description).

6) Thumbnails
for
each of the 5 additional tabs and for the item itself we added a
thumbnail tab which shows the user all the elements added to that item
and let the user upload a thumb image for each of them. if the user
doesn't upload a thumb for an element a "no-thumb pic" will be shown.

Based on the choosen
category for a new (or an existing) item some of the tabs will be shown.
Categories:
Reels
Content, Video (the K2 one), Thumbnails
Services
Content,
Image, Thumbnails
Works
Content, Image, Video gallery, Picture
gallery, Artists gallery, Awards gallery, Thumbnails
Artists
Content, Image, Video gallery, Picture gallery, Thumbnails
Research
& Development
Content, Image, Video gallery, Picture gallery,
Artists gallery, Awards
gallery, Thumbnails
Downloads
Content, Attachments, Thumbnails
Keypeople
Content, Image, Extrafields, Thumbnails
News
Content,
Thumbnails
Customer
Content, Image, Video gallery, Picture
gallery, Artists gallery, Awards
gallery, Thumbnails, Customer
The Customer category is the same
as Works but it let the user associate an item with a particular
customer who can see the item (in the frontend) after he/she signed-in
the website.
Some screenshots:

Works

Reels

Customers
Frontend
We
provided a different template for each category in order to show just
the informations related to that particular category in the way the
informations need to be displayed. Some of the categories have just the
category view (Reels, Services and Download), others have both the
category and item views. For those categories which have just the
category view the content of the item will be shown in a lightbox pane
(video, video gallery, picture gallery.).

Category view
The item view has been completely redesigned to fullfill the client
needs. Every type of element of the item belongs to a tab, and the
end-user can navigate through the tabs with a fancy mootools fade effect
(a screenshot here would help me a lot cause I'm not so good trying to
explain you what I mean XD)

Item view

Video in lightbox

Item internal pagination
Actually the template mods are difficult for me to explain in plain and
correct english (i'm italian), so if you are interested in my work check
it out here
www.canecane.com. It worths a thousand and sometimes
non-sense words :D
Future features:
Migrate to K2 v 2.2
Ajax upload
A more flexible and modular design (since we had client needs (and
deadlines) in mind we often created "ad hoc modules")
Conclusions:
I simply love K2! Joomlaworks... thank you so much!
I have one question for K2 staff and community. I tried to implement the different additional content tabs with the plugin extension but I
wasn't able to do so. Indeed I had to hack the core of K2 in order to
realize these mods. I'd rather like to write additional modules and
leave the core untouched . For this reason I cannot upgrade to the last
stable version of K2. So here it comes my question: do you think K2 will
provide this feature? (or it actually already does and I cannot see it?
XD)
Can't wait to know your opinions and
criticisms about this K2 powered website!
Bye bye