The native TNG search form and pagination controls in browsemedia.php are laid out and interact differently than in other TNG search pages.
This mod reconfigures them so that, for example, the pagination controls are now adjacent to the "Matches x to y of z" message,
and both are below the the search form.
Under the control of three mod configuration settings:
A "Media Collections" selection box is displayed so users can more easily switch to another collection,
while keeping the current search string and tree.
An information icon is placed next to the searchstring field. The popup help text is
An information icon is placed next to the Gallery button, to explain what "Gallery" means and does.
In the results table:
The fixed-width "Info" column (which is often empty) is allowed to float with the results table.
The fixed width of the "Linked to" column is enlarged.
If more than one tree is active in the search, there is now a column for the tree ID.
When "All Media" are being displayed, there is now a column for the Collection.
The results table is no longer forced to be the full width of the page.
Log Cabin of Christopher Moyers from the book "The Crossing, A History of White Pine, Tennessee", by The White Pine Historical Committee. East Tennessee Print. Co., Rogersville, Tenn, 1986
LT-JM Hutcheson Letter Letter from Leander Travis Hutcheson to his brother-in-law and cousin, James MacDonald Hutcheson. Lee Hutcheson had moved to Spencer from his farm in Bledsoe County, where Mack Hutcheson still lived. Photographed by Jan Coffman Davenport at the home of Mike Hutcheson in Cold Spring, Bledsoe Co, TN
The traditional landing place of Rev. Adam Blakeman and his followers, who established the town in 1639
(This link takes you away from this website to the Town of Stratford website. If you shift-click on the link, the target website will open in a new web browser window on your computer, and you can easily return to the window containing this website.)
Maddeson Lines Very comprehensive review of numerous conflicting versions of Madison genealogy, beginning with immigrant Issac Maddeson. Compiled by Leslie Barker Thomas. Describes a source of Humprey Madison's birth and parentage, but notes that it is incorrect.
Madison line Notes that President James Madison’s handwritten genealogy says that his great grandmother was Elizabeth Minor Tood. Argues that Minor was her maiden named, that Todd was a married name, and that, in any case, she was not the daughter of Thomas Todd.
Media items (whether images, PDF files, word-processiong files, web pages, recording, videos, etc.)
saved within this application are listed in a database table that describes the media item
and points to its file.
They are organized into "Collections" by their content rather than by the file format.
This search focuses on the "histories" collection and selects items if
the search string is found in one of these three database fields:
Title. Titles are hyperlinked at the top of the Description column
in the results table below.
Description. Longer than the title, but usually no more than a few lines long.
BodyText. This can be an arbitrarily large block of text with rich formatting
(i.e headings, lists, borders, backgrounds, colors, hyperlinks, etc).
The bodytext sometimes just adds a bit more information beyond the description and
and sometimes it is virtually a full web page.
But most media items do not have a bodytext value, ,
(The bodytext is not shown on this page.
You can see it only if you view the media item by clicking on the image thumbnail or hyperlinked title.)
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What's in the 'Gallery'
The Gallery shows just thumbnail images; no descriptive text to identify media items. It may be useful only for photos.
Significantly, media items without thumbnails do not appear in the Gallery.
Media items that are not likely to have thumbnails include
Non-images such as Word documents, PDF's, HTML pages, etc.
Images that were scanned from books and other documents.
In truth, it wouldn't be hard to generate thumbnails for those images,
and some do have thumbnails, but it isn't generally worthwhile to do so, since
thumbnails of scanned documents are usually too small to reveal anything useful about the document.
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Media 'Collection'
This site uses thousands of media files including many types of images and documents. To facilitate various aspects of file management, they are are broken out into what might be called a functional categorization the we refer to as "Collection".
Some (not necessarily all) of the active collections are:
Photos - Most photographs of people, places, and things.
Histories - Stories and other narratives that are not primarily focused on data.
Censuses - Images of census worksheets from national and state censuses and other similar accountings of the people in a given place at a given time.
Documents - All other representations of formal documents such as marriage, birth, death, military draft, naturizalization, and graduation certificates; church and town birth, marriage, and burial registers; city directories etc., etc., etc.
Headstones - Photos, maps, and documents tied to an application feature that focuses on finding graves and headstones within cemeteries.
Clearly, many, files could be logically be assigned to different collections, and other potentially-useful collections come fairly easily to mind. But these functional collections are much more useful than a breakdown based on less ambiguous file formats.
This help message window can be dragged out of the way,
and left on the screen as long as you need it.
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