DailyPhoto Community Theme

BELphotos

In the Daily Photo Community, the theme used, which seem to be the default for all communities, has a font setting that renders the COMMENTS font blurry and slightly distorted. you can see this in the first photo displayed here.



Removing the word BOLD from the CSS code - see next photo - seems to eliminate the problem.



The result looks like this -



I am not an expert in CSS, however I would assume that this change would have to be made at the GURU level to make this a universal correction.

Thanks for listening.

ivar

Is there a specific reason you are using the community theme? You can set it to SmugMug and keep your red theme going. (for that, go to your dailies gallery, go to 'gallery tools' and select 'customize gallery'. All the way at the bottom you have a choice between the gallery layout and the SmugMug layout.)

It's not possible for use to change the community theme, I'm sorry.

BELphotos

ivar wrote:

Is there a specific reason you are using the community theme? You can set it to SmugMug and keep your red theme going. (for that, go to your dailies gallery, go to 'gallery tools' and select 'customize gallery'. All the way at the bottom you have a choice between the gallery layout and the SmugMug layout.)

It's not possible for use to change the community theme, I'm sorry.

If I choose SMUGMUG, I lose my custom header. The theme colors are then set to that which I have set for my site. However, setting to COMMUNITY, I retain my custom header and identity, but the colors are defaulted to the COMMUNITY. This color scheme is okay with me for the COMMUNITY option. The inconsistency of the lettering within the theme is the problem.

BTW - notice that the BOLD lettering is only applicable to the COMMENTS. I believe that this was an oversight on the designers part during the proofing process. The lettering in the rest of the theme is displayed normally.

It is not my intention to change the theme, only to have the ERROR rectified.

Andy

Which gallery on your site?

ivar

Hold on, I'm confused. Can you link me to your dailies gallery? The dailies community does not have a forced theme-cobranding, but uses the default SmugMug look & feel; what I see in your screenshots is not the default.

Also, just to be sure, you are talking about the photo-captions, not the comments left by others, right?

BELphotos

Andy wrote:

Which gallery on your site?

http://belphotos.smugmug.com/gallery/5753529_bgZjL//390551282_MDjfW

Photo A Day (2008)

BELphotos

ivar wrote:

Hold on, I'm confused. Can you link me to your dailies gallery? The dailies community does not have a forced theme-cobranding, but uses the default SmugMug look & feel; what I see in your screenshots is not the default.

Also, just to be sure, you are talking about the photo-captions, not the comments left by others, right?

Yes, it seems to affect only the captions. I was able to experiment with the developer tool on Firefox and removed the BOLD, only until I closed the CSS editor.

Thanks

ivar

I get this, which doesn't look like the font in the screengrabs that you showed us above

ivar

Hold on, the screengrabs you posted above are not from one of your normal galleries, but from a date/keyword/popular/etc kind of page, right?

BELphotos

ivar wrote:

Hold on, the screengrabs you posted above are not from one of your normal galleries, but from a date/keyword/popular/etc kind of page, right?

It does not matter where the gallery is displayed. Either on my own site or the community site.

Whenever the SmugMugBlack gallery is used the problem arises. When I edited the CSS in developer mode, the THEME I edited is labeled "smugmugBlack-20080926164501-stretch.css". This you can view in the 2nd screen shot I attached.

Hope this makes it clearer.

Addendum--- Attaching screenshot for clarity

ivar

BELphotos wrote:

Hope this makes it clearer.

Not really, as I can not get the same look on your dailies as in the screengrabs that you posted in the first post.

Can you please give me a direct link to the exact same page where you made the screengrabs from the first post?

BELphotos

ivar wrote:

Not really, as I can not get the same look on your dailies as in the screengrabs that you posted in the first post.

Can you please give me a direct link to the exact same page where you made the screengrabs from the first post?

Hi Ivar.... The link shown in the post is as follows:

http://cleantth.smugmug.com/popular/1/254697416_8g2E3#254697416_8g2E3

To contrast that page - go to this one where the community setup seems to be the Carbonite theme.

http://www.smugmug.com/community/DigitalGrin/popular/today/1/396976255_Gsrq5#P-2-15

If you select one of my photos from the DailyPhotos community you will notice that the community is set to SmugMug Black theme and that is where the BOLD indicator is in the CSS.

http://belphotos.smugmug.com/gallery/5753529_bgZjL/1/360773927_eFUwV#360773927_eFUwV

ivar

BELphotos wrote:

Hi Ivar.... The link shown in the post is as follows:

http://cleantth.smugmug.com/popular/1/254697416_8g2E3#254697416_8g2E3

That's a 'popular' page of Hillary, that has in no way anything to do with the community, or styling thereof.
Her 'default' theme is set to 'black and white', so the popular pages take on that theme, also.

The bold lettering in the caption is the way that theme was designed.

BELphotos wrote:

To contrast that page - go to this one where the community setup seems to be the Carbonite theme.

http://www.smugmug.com/community/DigitalGrin/popular/today/1/396976255_Gsrq5#P-2-15

What you see is the default SmugMug look. The DigitalGrin community has no specific cobranding set.

BELphotos wrote:

If you select one of my photos from the DailyPhotos community you will notice that the community is set to SmugMug Black theme and that is where the BOLD indicator is in the CSS.

http://belphotos.smugmug.com/gallery/5753529_bgZjL/1/360773927_eFUwV#360773927_eFUwV

The default code (when you have custom code) does have the bold statement, always. Some themes are coded so it's not bold anymore, some are not and keep the bold font.



I'm still a bit lost on what the bold statement has to do with the Hillary's pages, and the community to be honest