Customizing Galleries

johntdavies

I've been using Smugmug for a year or two now and hats off to the creators, it's a great site.

I have a few questions that someone might be able to help me with please...

I have a good experience in HTML, CSS and reasonable amount with Smugmug customization but I do get a little stuck some times and especially with knowing what Smugmug does automatically and what I need to do.

Anyway, my current problem is this, I have managed to set up the slideshow and customize my header menu which works fine, I used to have customised headers for the galleries but this seems to have stopped working. The changes I made relate to moving from the "old" slide show to the new one and I've pretty much had to start from scratch so when I say it's stopped working I really mean that I've probably made a mistake somewhere in the re-write.

I've tried adding

.gallery_3282584 #my_banner {
    background: url(http://www.smugmug.com/photos/171286136_Ah9rb-O.png) no-repeat;
}

to my CSS but it doesn't seem to work. Why also are the galleries in a toally different style from the rest of my site?

My site is http://johntdavies.smugmug.com, I've just taken most of my photos out because I'm re-doing it but the main gallery should be working now.

Many thanks in advance for anyone's help, in return I hope to be able to help others with customisation now that I've bothered to register for the forum.

-John-

richW

johntdavies wrote:

I've been using Smugmug for a year or two now and hats off to the creators, it's a great site.

I have a few questions that someone might be able to help me with please...

I have a good experience in HTML, CSS and reasonable amount with Smugmug customization but I do get a little stuck some times and especially with knowing what Smugmug does automatically and what I need to do.

Anyway, my current problem is this, I have managed to set up the slideshow and customize my header menu which works fine, I used to have customised headers for the galleries but this seems to have stopped working. The changes I made relate to moving from the "old" slide show to the new one and I've pretty much had to start from scratch so when I say it's stopped working I really mean that I've probably made a mistake somewhere in the re-write.

I've tried adding

.gallery_3282584 #my_banner {
    background: url(http://www.smugmug.com/photos/171286136_Ah9rb-O.png) no-repeat;
}

to my CSS but it doesn't seem to work. Why also are the galleries in a toally different style from the rest of my site?

My site is http://johntdavies.smugmug.com, I've just taken most of my photos out because I'm re-doing it but the main gallery should be working now.

Many thanks in advance for anyone's help, in return I hope to be able to help others with customisation now that I've bothered to register for the forum.

-John-

Welcome to dgrin....
Check and adjust the following two gallery settings:

Under 'Look & Feel', adjust 'Appearance' to Custom.

Under 'Security & Privacy', adjust 'Hide owner' to No.

See how this works out and we can go from there..

johntdavies

richW wrote:

Welcome to dgrin....
Check and adjust the following two gallery settings:

Under 'Look & Feel', adjust 'Appearance' to Custom.

Under 'Security & Privacy', adjust 'Hide owner' to No.

See how this works out and we can go from there..

Many thanks for your quick reply, I've played around with several settings (as indicated above) as well as 'Gallery style'. I was just about to suggest there's a bug because my results were relatively random but I think I've discovered something that's worth pointing out to others...

I was clicking back and forth between customize settings and the photo gallery I was customizing (in both Firefox and Safari so that I could remain logged in and see it as a visitor at the same time). I've found that it's the difference between the 'www' and 'johntdavies' in the domain that is causing the problem. Obviously sometimes I just clicked "refresh" or "back" while using the "www" even though I'd changed the setting 'Hide owner' to No and this of course didn't seem to have any effect which just comfused me more.

As an example, try the following two urls...

http://www.smugmug.com/gallery/3417087_9m47h

and

http://johntdavies.smugmug.com/gallery/3417087_9m47h

Many thanks for your help, it was indeed the 'Hide owner' option that was "hiding" my customization (as the help text explains).

I will hopefully make some more progress tomorrow and come back with some more questions.

-John-

Allen

johntdavies wrote:

Many thanks for your quick reply, I've played around with several settings (as indicated above) as well as 'Gallery style'. I was just about to suggest there's a bug because my results were relatively random but I think I've discovered something that's worth pointing out to others...

I was clicking back and forth between customize settings and the photo gallery I was customizing (in both Firefox and Safari so that I could remain logged in and see it as a visitor at the same time). I've found that it's the difference between the 'www' and 'johntdavies' in the domain that is causing the problem. Obviously sometimes I just clicked "refresh" or "back" while using the "www" even though I'd changed the setting 'Hide owner' to No and this of course didn't seem to have any effect which just comfused me more.

As an example, try the following two urls...

http://www.smugmug.com/gallery/3417087_9m47h

and

http://johntdavies.smugmug.com/gallery/3417087_9m47h

Many thanks for your help, it was indeed the 'Hide owner' option that was "hiding" my customization (as the help text explains).

I will hopefully make some more progress tomorrow and come back with some more questions.

-John-

This might help with your about gallery.

.gallery_3263317 #BioImg {
   float: right;
   padding: 20px;
   margin-top: 10px;
}
.gallery_3263317 #albumDescription {
   margin: 0 auto;
   width:750px;
   padding: 20px;
}
.notLoggedIn .gallery_3263317 #breadcrumb,
.gallery_3263317 .nophotos h3  {display: none;}