Photo count for galleries

rachelsabout

Sorry if this is simple but if it exists then I just can't find it and a search of this forum hasn't turned anything up for me.

Is there a way of displaying the number of photos in each gallery on the home page?

I'm using smugmug to store photos of a long trip overseas and I'd like my friends to be able to see VERY easily if I've put new photos up.

So if a photo count isn't possible then putting the text that says when the gallery was last updated, in bold or a different colour from the rest of the text might work. Is it possible to single that text out? If this is the way to go, could someone please explain how to do it.

jfriend

rachelsabout wrote:

Sorry if this is simple but if it exists then I just can't find it and a search of this forum hasn't turned anything up for me.

Is there a way of displaying the number of photos in each gallery on the home page?

I'm using smugmug to store photos of a long trip overseas and I'd like my friends to be able to see VERY easily if I've put new photos up.

So if a photo count isn't possible then putting the text that says when the gallery was last updated, in bold or a different colour from the rest of the text might work. Is it possible to single that text out? If this is the way to go, could someone please explain how to do it.

I'm not sure exactly what you are asking for, but my homepage shows both of the things you are asking for:

http://jfriend.smugmug.com/photos/24661509-L.jpg

--John

rachelsabout

Yep, that's nearly what I want. But what you've got there is Categories display. If you click on a category, wham... the number of photos disappears. So you still can't tell how many pics are in each gallery. (Or have I missed something? That's how it works on mine and I can't get to your site to try it out.) I thought about using a separate Category for each country but that just adds an extra mouse click to get into the photos. (I've got a category for each geographical region and each country is in its own gallery, cos that's how I'll probably want to organise them when I get home.)

I'm using smugmug as kind of a photo-oriented blog. So I'm trying to make it as easy as possible for my friends to spot if (and in what gallery) I've loaded new photos. In my own experience of reading other peoples' travel sites, it's the number of photos uploaded that I tend to remember.

The alternative to a count of the photos in each gallery would be to highlight the date that each gallery was last updated, perhaps in a different colour from the rest of the text, or bold.
This is the bit I mean:
http://moochabout.smugmug.com/photos/24671114-M.jpg (Sorry, I don't know how to make the image appear in this post.)
Its default is smaller than the rest of the text and italicised, which tends to make the reader ignore it for some reason.

(A third idea, that I just thought of, is to retrieve stats like <gallery name> and <last updated>, in some form of text file so I can send updates to a group of email addresses. But that's getting way too involved, especially if there's a simpler way.)

Any ideas will help, thanks