Smugmug bugs and feature requests #7

MarkLamble

Mike Lane wrote:

You could insert the filename into each of your captions.

I was very reluctantly about to go down this route but I'd REALLY rather not if there's a chance we can have it as a 'Customize Gallery' option in the near future. That way everyone can be kept happy - turning it on or off by gallery.

Cheers,
Mark

gblotter

enhancement request: use consistent image size for album pages
Here is an enhancement request:

It seems that an album page under a category uses Tiny (Ti) photos:
example: http://blotter.smugmug.com/Vacations

However, an album page under a sub-category uses larger Thumbnail (Th) photos:
example: http://blotter.smugmug.com//Easter/108666

For consistency, shouldn't album pages use the same size photos everywhere, regardless of whether the album page is under a category or subcategory?

I prefer the larger Thumbnail photos, but regardless of the size you choose, it seems the same photo size should be used consistently throughout. Maybe there is some logic here that I don't understand.

{JT}

Well it is consistent in the fact that if you have more than 6 galleries in a category we use the smaller images and if you have less we use the larger images

This has bothered more than a few other people, so I will bring it up with the rest of the team.

gblotter wrote:

Here is an enhancement request:

It seems that an album page under a category uses Tiny (Ti) photos:
example: http://blotter.smugmug.com/Vacations

However, an album page under a sub-category uses larger Thumbnail (Th) photos:
example: http://blotter.smugmug.com//Easter/108666

For consistency, shouldn't album pages use the same size photos everywhere, regardless of whether the album page is under a category or subcategory?

I prefer the larger Thumbnail photos, but regardless of the size you choose, it seems the same photo size should be used consistently throughout. Maybe there is some logic here that I don't understand.

SailingArt

off thread
mea culpa on the incorrect location for this thread - my doing - stiill getting used to these boards and how they work - didn't meant to cross-polinate...

cindy - i agree with you....

mike - thanks for passing this idea on....

DavidTO

{JT} wrote:

Have you not clicked on the button right next to buy it that says multiples?

Is that what you are looking for, or am I mistaken?

So, I just want to report that my mom (a grandmother, but pretty computer savvy) asked me if there isn't some easier way to order prints, that she had to do it one by one. I explained about the multiple button, and of course, she said, "Oh, I missed that."

I know you get all kinds of suggestions about this, but how about this?

buy: this photo (cart) this photo and others (cart)

or

buy: this photo (cart) photos in this gallery (cart)

or

buy: just this photo (cart) more photos (cart)

Just trying to help... (in other words, if you end up not changing it, that's OK by me, too!)

{JT}

We debated several different things, but ultimately came up with what you see now based off of asking people we trust. I do however have a howto on how you can change what it says yourself:

http://blogs.smugmug.com/web-tricks/2005/09/06/changing-shopping-cart-action-text/

DavidTO wrote:

So, I just want to report that my mom (a grandmother, but pretty computer savvy) asked me if there isn't some easier way to order prints, that she had to do it one by one. I explained about the multiple button, and of course, she said, "Oh, I missed that."

I know you get all kinds of suggestions about this, but how about this?

buy: this photo (cart) this photo and others (cart)

or

buy: this photo (cart) photos in this gallery (cart)

or

buy: just this photo (cart) more photos (cart)

Just trying to help... (in other words, if you end up not changing it, that's OK by me, too!)

DavidTO

{JT} wrote:

We debated several different things, but ultimately came up with what you see now based off of asking people we trust. I do however have a howto on how you can change what it says yourself:

http://blogs.smugmug.com/web-tricks/2005/09/06/changing-shopping-cart-action-text/

Thanks for the reply. Like I said, I'm fine if you don't change it, and seeing as how I have a basic account, it looks like I'll have to live with your choice...

gblotter

re: enhancement request: allow me to hide #username from the subcategory title

gblotter wrote:

How about adding a class name to allow me to hide the #username from the subcategory title?

Thanks JT for working this one in.

MarkLamble

Mike Lane wrote:

I'm not sure why IE is flipping out over this but I found a fix:

.homepage #galleriesBox .boxBottom {
<delete this note and keep whatever styles you may have already set>
_height:100%;
_padding-top:50px;
}

Delete everything between and including the angle brackets (all the red text) and insert the css you have there if any. You may have to play around with the padding-top value to make it look right in IE. The underscores in front of the values are important, do not delete them.

hmmmmm - really confused now....

added this for #categoriesBox as well and it was all working fine in IE two days ago - had a look last night and the problem is back again on the Galleries page but not on the Categories (works on both when I'm logged in) <img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6029383/emoji/headscratch.gif&quot; border="0" alt="" >scratch<img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6029383/emoji/headscratch.gif&quot; border="0" alt="" >

Any ideas ??

Cheers,
Mark

MarkLamble

Filename display....
Am I seeing things, or is there now a filename displayed (assuming you've selected 'Filenames' in your gallery options) under the photo ?

If so, great work guys

If not I'd better lay off the

NaturalEye

Feature Request
My smugmug site is now starting to show on the search engines, but it looks like this:

1. NaturalEye - powered by smugmug
   
   The ultimate in photo sharing. Easily create online photo albums. Share, store, organize and print.
   
   www.naturaleye.co.uk - 17k - Cached - More pages from this site - Save - Block

This doesn't exactly invite anyone to visit! I would really like to be able to co-brand the keywords and metadata....

Gary

Fine Bottled Water

Throwing this out there once again:

Fine Bottled Water wrote:

I use the journal style on my site, and my only complaint is the inability of visitors to see whether pictures have comments. I'd like to have the option to display [via the journal style] the number of comments each picture has, similar to how individual posts on a blog show the number of comments.

I figure this would not only push visitors to read the comments (which I expect often go overlooked), but it would also promote the use of the comments function.

I created this image as an example.

Thanks!

{JT}

I think I have an idea for this one, just be patient

Fine Bottled Water wrote:

Throwing this out there once again:

SailingArt

MarkLamble wrote:

Am I seeing things, or is there now a filename displayed (assuming you've selected 'Filenames' in your gallery options) under the photo ?

well, i don't think your seeing things, but....

as always, a simple explanation.

in control panel, there is a sofware switch that says if no captions, show filename - yes/no

so, unless your seeing a filename AND a caption....or are you seeing one or the other...?

LuckyCritters

Along the same lines as showing the filename, here's an idea:

It would be really cool if you could specify dynamic information in the Gallery Description. For example, you could add parameters to all galleries to show the category and subcategory by default in the description.

That way, when someone does a search on my site for their dog, they would be presented with a list of galleries and also which Class (sub category) and Event (category) they represent. And I wouldn't have to update hundreds (soon to be thousands) of galleries one at a time.

EDIT: Example, the gallery description would be something like. **Category**-**SubCategory**<br> - This is a sample category description.

That would be cool!

MarkLamble

SailingArt wrote:

MarkLamble wrote:

Am I seeing things, or is there now a filename displayed (assuming you've selected 'Filenames' in your gallery options) under the photo ?

well, i don't think your seeing things, but....

as always, a simple explanation.

in control panel, there is a sofware switch that says if no captions, show filename - yes/no

so, unless your seeing a filename AND a caption....or are you seeing one or the other...?

I'm seeing both - came across this thread last night so at least I know I'm not imagining it now....

limbik

MarkLamble wrote:

I'm seeing both - came across this thread last night so at least I know I'm not imagining it now....

OK, here are my requests thus far:

#1 - Custom Watermarks
#2 - QTVR Support
#3 - Custom frames/mattes via css

{JT}

Ok, here is what I have to say:

1) we know and it is on the list of things to do

2) we never say never, but this is HIGHLY unlikely

3) this is also unlikely to happen due to the amount of divs involved to make it work properly - if you have safari though you can already do it using the single DIV we supply: http://petertoh.com/images/multi-bk.html

limbik wrote:

OK, here are my requests thus far:

#1 - Custom Watermarks
#2 - QTVR Support
#3 - Custom frames/mattes via css

Mike Lane

{JT} wrote:

Ok, here is what I have to say:

1) we know and it is on the list of things to do

2) we never say never, but this is HIGHLY unlikely

3) this is also unlikely to happen due to the amount of divs involved to make it work properly - if you have safari though you can already do it using the single DIV we supply: http://petertoh.com/images/multi-bk.html

3) is already possible in a sense. You can increase the padding around an image or thumbnail and make it the color of the desired frame. You can increase the size of the border outside of that to be a frame. You can even color the border of the image in such a way that it looks like a bevel.

That said, it is possible to add the necessary divs (which could be up to 8) using javascript. Check out: http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200505/transparent_custom_corners_and_borders/
This is something I'm going to try to do once I wrap my head around it

{JT}

Notice I did not say impossible - just highly unlikely that I will increase page weight for the 1% of pros out there who will take advantage of it

Mike Lane wrote:

3) is already possible in a sense.

gblotter

bug: no active page color on #albumNav_bottom page navigation for journal style
Here's an obscure bug.

Look at the #albumNav_bottom page navigation for a Journal style gallery. Notice that the active page number is missing its dark gray color?

example at: http://fatdave.smugmug.com/gallery/775336

This is not a problem for the #albumNav_top page navigation - it has the correct color for the active page number.

Seems to only be a problem with Journal style as far as I know.

{JT}

Wow, good catch - fixed, should be out live soon.

gblotter wrote:

Here's an obscure bug.

Look at the #albumNav_bottom page navigation for a Journal style gallery. Notice that the active page number is missing its dark gray color?

example at: http://fatdave.smugmug.com/gallery/775336

This is not a problem for the #albumNav_top page navigation - it has the correct color for the active page number.

Seems to only a problem with Journal style as far as I know.

VMac

MarkLamble wrote:

hmmmmm - really confused now....

added this for #categoriesBox as well and it was all working fine in IE two days ago - had a look last night and the problem is back again on the Galleries page but not on the Categories (works on both when I'm logged in) scratch

Any ideas ??

Cheers,
Mark

Any updates on this? Very frustrating. I've been plugging away for week now, trying all kinds of changes, and can't get the quirky IE background behavior to stop (only in IE, and only when not logged in). Very odd.

Thanks,
Vance

peestandingup

We need an html tag for the little description on the bottom of videos that says "To view this movie, you need an mpeg1 player blah blah". It would be nice if we could move that down so that our captions are below the video so people can see them, or perhaps hide it all together. Thanks.

Here is what I mean:

Now, dont that look awful?

Andy

peestandingup wrote:

or perhaps hide it all together.

the problem is, when someone who doesn't know windows media from quicktime, mpeg1 from mpeg4, tries to view the movie and it won't play on their computer ... then the support requests go through the roof at smugmug....

cheers

peestandingup

andy wrote:

the problem is, when someone who doesn't know windows media from quicktime, mpeg1 from mpeg4, tries to view the movie and it won't play on their computer ... then the support requests go through the roof at smugmug....

cheers

Yeah, but is there really a computer out there in the entire world that wont be able to play mpeg1 files. Even like 10 year old computers can play those.

I understand why they dont give it a tag, but there could at least be a way to move it down so the caption is just below the photo. Or at the very least they could shorten the amount of words they use in explaining that. It takes up like an entire paragraph.

Wouldnt it look much better if they said something like "cant see the video, click here"? And then move the "save as" link down to the image/video info area? Thats where it is for photos, why not videos?

Cheers...Kerry

Andy

peestandingup wrote:

Yeah, but is there really a computer out there in the entire world that wont be able to play mpeg1 files

and even as small as that %age is, with millions of visitors each day to smugmug, imagine the potential support burden if the message were gone?

peestandingup

andy wrote:

and even as small as that %age is, with millions of visitors each day to smugmug, imagine the potential support burden if the message were gone?

Very true.

Dont you think they should shorten it though? I mean, thats a rant they go on! Like I said, make a "cant see the video, click here" link to a Smugmug help page explaining what to do. And move that link right below the caption. People would still see it and best of all, people would actually see the captions, because the way its set up now there might as well not be a caption on videos because most people dont scroll down that far to see it. And the "save video" link should be where the photo info stuff is, like it is for pictures.

It wouldnt take much work at all. Just a moving around of the info and it would be a huge improvement.

Mike Lane

VMac wrote:

Any updates on this? Very frustrating. I've been plugging away for week now, trying all kinds of changes, and can't get the quirky IE background behavior to stop (only in IE, and only when not logged in). Very odd.

Thanks,
Vance

Yes, in fact I do have an update:D

http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=18446

blackqueen

Bug when arranging galleries within sub-catergories?
Hi all, been a Smugmug member for a while but only now getting to grips with lots of it and the new changes. I have posted this in the main forum but wondered if it's some sort of bug or just a feature that's not been sorted properly...

Is there a bug when arranging galleries? I have tried to do this within sub galleries and it just shows me every gallery in the whole of my Smugmug, making it impossible to sort out arranging within certain galleries. Has anyone else encountered this?

So far I've not had any useful hints or fixes on this. I sincerely hope it's not something I have to "just put up with" because it's a bit of a nightmare for me, causing me endless extra work because I have so many galleries that I am trying to arrange in gig order for a band (which is not necessarily position or last updated order). It's difficult to do when you get ever single gallery come up in the re-arranging window, not just the galleries in that sub-category. It SHOULD be as easy as arranging photos within galleries, which only bring up the photos for that gallery. But it isn't.

Anyone got any news or info on this? I'm going prematurely grey and then bald in turns over this...

Thank you kindly for your attention to the above and keep up the good work on making Smugmug better and better!