Pro Account Customization .. The Next Steps

TheEventGuy

Firstly, three cheers for the existing online help ... hip hip ... hurrah!

It's great and best of all it's really helpful! ... Now on to the post

I've looked at the Control Panel and the Customisation section and it's clear to me what gets pasted where. I'm fairly proficient with server-side code, HTML, CSS and stuff, but I can't find the next step that bridges the "Hello World" tutorial and the "This is how you get the categories to list in your custom HTML code you pasted into our boxes"

Any pointers would be appreciated, I'm looking at things like, how to generate the category listings, how to include the search box, etc.

Any pointer would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers

Tony

rainforest1155

Welcome to dgrin!
Don't know about the other stuff, but how you get the searchbox is answeared in the help (at the bottom of the page).

Hope this helps,
Sebastian

TheEventGuy

rainforest1155 wrote:

Welcome to dgrin!
Don't know about the other stuff, but how you get the searchbox is answeared in the help (at the bottom of the page).

Hope this helps,
Sebastian

Thanks for the welcome

Found that link shortly after posting. One things that confuses me, I've made a bunch of CSS changes A:link etc, and none of them seem to be making a difference. Is there a definitive list of what can and can't be changed?

Cheers

T.

rainforest1155

TheEventGuy wrote:

Found that link shortly after posting. One things that confuses me, I've made a bunch of CSS changes A:link etc, and none of them seem to be making a difference. Is there a definitive list of what can and can't be changed?

I just tried to change link color and it worked. I did it the way it was given in the example in the help-link I posted before.
Don't know if such a list exists, but you can just have a look at the css-files of smugmug and see what kind of parameters are used there.
The 3 files used:
http://www.smugmug.com/include/css/modgodsbodyBlack.css
http://www.smugmug.com/include/css/modgodsBlack.css
http://www.smugmug.com/include/css/nicetitle.css

Have a look at them with a text editor of your choice. This is for the black background scheme. There exists also a set for white backgrounds. Just turn your colors to white and have a look at the code of your page.

Sebastian

TheEventGuy

Hi,

OK things are moving along with the design, it's not very pretty but I'm getting there.

One thing I still seem to have a problem with .... the styles and customisation stays all the way through on http://www.mydomain.com until I actually get into a Gallery containing photos, then the url changes to www.smugmug.com and I lose all my formatting, and it resets to default layout.

Yes, I've chosen custom layout in the "Customise Gallery" section.

Any ideas?

Cheers

T>

rainforest1155

Uh, now it gets really complicated...with all the domain direction and stuff. Would help to have your domain-url, so I can have a look at it and see if something pops up in my mind.

Sebastian

TheEventGuy

rainforest1155 wrote:

Uh, now it gets really complicated...with all the domain direction and stuff. Would help to have your domain-url, so I can have a look at it and see if something pops up in my mind.

Sebastian

Sent you the url in a private message

Cheers

T.

rainforest1155

Tim,

I had a look at your site and experienced the same problem as you did. Guess there's a technical problem and you should probably contact the SM-helpteam. I'm sure they can help you out.

Be sure to report back when you found a solution. Maybe other's have come across a similar problem.

All the best,
Sebastian

TheEventGuy

rainforest1155 wrote:

Tim,

I had a look at your site and experienced the same problem as you did. Guess there's a technical problem and you should probably contact the SM-helpteam. I'm sure they can help you out.

Be sure to report back when you found a solution. Maybe other's have come across a similar problem.

All the best,
Sebastian

My fault, I had the gallery set to hide owner = true .....

I just didn't understand what the setting meant....

SM guys put me straight withn minutes .... top service.

Thanks again for looking Sebastian

Cheers

Tony

rainforest1155

TheEventGuy wrote:

My fault, I had the gallery set to hide owner = true .....

I just didn't understand what the setting meant....

Glad they could help you so fast. Never used the setting and now that you mentioned it's clear.

Sebastian

devbobo

TheEventGuy wrote:

Thanks for the welcome

Found that link shortly after posting. One things that confuses me, I've made a bunch of CSS changes A:link etc, and none of them seem to be making a difference. Is there a definitive list of what can and can't be changed?

Cheers

T.

Tony,

Not sure if this will work, but if your CSS changes aren't been applied try adding the '!important' to the end of each element as below...

background: white !important;

Cheers,

David