Journal and Slideshow extreme makeovers

Andy

Erick L wrote:

That would be catastrophic.

Styles and times change, Erick. All I can say at this point is that there's no guarantee that Old Journal will be around forever. Of course, we'll work with you to migrate or change to any other style! By the way, you've got some sort of formatting error in that gallery you linked -- holler to me if you want help getting it fixed, Erick

Andy

MasterCow wrote:

I like the new journal view, however I believe there is a small problem -- the photos are too big! So big, in fact, that I cannot see the entire photo without scrolling. Here's a screenshot to show you what I mean:

I think I should be able to see the entire photo at once, yes? My screen resolution is 1680x1050.

Yeah, scroll that gallery, you'll see that the 3:2 ratio shots fit your screen perfectly We had to make choices.

We do have other styles, like SmugMug Style with Lightobox, that fit the photo exactly, each time

gbrookshaw

You are right - that works now. When I first tried they wouldn't disappear and the photos weren't filling the screen either so something was obviously funky!

Works great - thanks for quick response!

Andy

collin85 wrote:

Excellent work on the Journal overhaul.. I was so impressed I've already switched to it for many of my galleries. Having been with Smugmug for nearly 3 years, this has probably been the upgrade which has impressed me the most.

Two questions though..

1) How do I change the length of the journal page? I'd like to be able to squeeze all my shots in one continuous page, rather than forcing people to navigate multiple pages if possible. Basically, like FlickRiver (a look I had been trying to emulate for awhile on Smugmug but gave up).

I'm sorry, it can't be done yet - add your voice, here: http://smugmug.uservoice.com

2) How do I remove captions? Some of my galleries don't have captions for any of the photos, and it would be nice to have that entire caption grey bar from each shot completely removed.

Add this:


.gallery_6204330 .journal_caption_container {display: none;}

for just a gallery (like this one:
http://www.collinzphotography.com/gallery/6204330_pxYFf

or this
.journal_caption_container {display: none;} for your whole site. But rememer, there'll be no buy this photo button if you did that. Folks can still use the 'Buy' button at the top of your gallery to buy multiples though. Ask any more questions in the customizing forum, thanks!


to your CSS

Awais Yaqub

clapclap

Woohoo ! exactly what i wanted to have, to display my photos.

And great photo collection huh

Erick L

Andy wrote:

Styles and times change, Erick. All I can say at this point is that there's no guarantee that Old Journal will be around forever. Of course, we'll work with you to migrate or change to any other style! By the way, you've got some sort of formatting error in that gallery you linked -- holler to me if you want help getting it fixed, Erick

The error is there only with the new journal. That was the point.

Customers change too. Will you help me migrate my images to some other site?

Andy

Erick L wrote:

The error is there only with the new journal. That was the point.

Customers change too. Will you help me migrate my images to some other site?

Erick, we never said your OldJournal stuff would work with the new Journal, that's why we've left Old Journal. Does this make sense?

Sure, we know customers can change, and that's why since day 1 of SmugMug we've never, ever held your photos away from you. We make your originals easy to get, because we know Vendor Lock-in Sucks. We know customers will vote with their hearts and wallets.

I expect we'll have some kind of solution that satisfies everyone, Erick. In the meantime, I hope you re-set your OldJournal gallery, and maybe enjoy some photos biiig in new journal!

wellman

MasterCow wrote:

I like the new journal view, however I believe there is a small problem -- the photos are too big! So big, in fact, that I cannot see the entire photo without scrolling. Here's a screenshot to show you what I mean:

I think I should be able to see the entire photo at once, yes? My screen resolution is 1680x1050.

Andy wrote:

Yeah, scroll that gallery, you'll see that the 3:2 ratio shots fit your screen perfectly We had to make choices.

We do have other styles, like SmugMug Style with Lightobox, that fit the photo exactly, each time

I know extra options are a double-edged sword, but would it be possible to have an option (even a JS flag) which would force all images to size themselves on the height of the browser window rather than the width? That would eliminate h-scrolling for those of us that don't like it.

Erick L

Andy wrote:

Erick, we never said your OldJournal stuff would work with the new Journal, that's why we've left Old Journal. Does this make sense?

You said the old journal will be nuked and to use the new one or make html pages. I've put countless hours of work to make these pages and you'll flush it for no other reason than "style changes".

You have a perfectly good working style and will flush for something that doesn't even look remotely close. Why can't you fix things that already exist instead of adding new buggy stuff?

Andy

Erick L wrote:

You said the old journal will be nuked and to use the new one or make html pages. I've put countless hours of work to make these pages and you'll flush it for no other reason than "style changes".
You have a perfectly good working style and will flush for something that doesn't even look remotely close. Why can't you fix things that already exist instead of adding new buggy stuff?

Heh - nuked was probably the wrong word - updated is better - I think we plan at some point to have a new style that will replace the 750px narrow Old Journal style. For now, we've kept it, Erick - and we've no definite plans to remove the other one yet. And you can see we're getting input here:
http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=136731 thanks!

Andy

Erick L wrote:

You said the old journal will be nuked

yeah I updated my post, sorry for the scare - while anything's possible, we're just gathering input at this point. Thanks Erick!

anglotexian

New Journal: thank you, thank you, thank you! I have been one of those requesting this for a long time.

Old Journal: still have a need for this! Please don't ever scrap it. Make it more customizable maybe, but please don't toss it out altogether.

methd

Is there any way to remove that dropdown bar and massive buttons so that it doesn't show at all in the slideshow? I had it like that previously, and was more than happy with it.

Andy

anglotexian wrote:

New Journal: thank you, thank you, thank you! I have been one of those requesting this for a long time.

Old Journal: still have a need for this! Please don't ever scrap it. Make it more customizable maybe, but please don't toss it out altogether.

http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=136731

timcallow

Great enhancements to the journal page, thanks.

mhthomps

Is there a way to make the flash slideshow on my landing page stretchy too?
Is there a way to make the flash slideshow on my landing page stretchy too?
That would be pretty sweet if the home page slideshow could expand/contract based on the viewer's window size.

Andy

mhthomps wrote:

Is there a way to make the flash slideshow on my landing page stretchy too?
That would be pretty sweet if the home page slideshow could expand/contract based on the viewer's window size.

No, but you can make it bigger, mine is 1000px wide
http://www.moonriverphotography.com

Maybe one day we'll have stretchability there on the homepage.

W.W. Webster

W.W. Webster wrote:

In the new Journal style, clicking on any image to enlarge it is now redundant - I understand that. But how do I select the image to which "this photo" tools will be applied?

In other words, I presume "this photo" is the top/uppermost image. What if I want to apply a tool function to another (just one) image - for example to replace the fourth image, or make the second image the featured image, etc?

Bumpity bump!

Andy

W.W. Webster wrote:

Bumpity bump!

Like denise said, it's a theme thing - we'll fix the default themes for customizers in the next day or so I hope. In the meantime, apply a new theme like SmugMug Gradient, or Gradient White, or SmugMug Dashed to your gallery and you'll see it. Or view it as http://www.smugmug.com/gallery/834730_WFSQQ/1/37392154_knohY

try this way http://rosscollins.smugmug.com/gallery/834730_WFSQQ/1/37392154_knohY with SmugMug Classic theme applied also.

W.W. Webster

Thanks Andy. Which reminds me - the caption container seems always a pixel or two wider than the image (to the right). Is that a known bug?

This is a great new SmugMug feature by the way!

cameraguy64

Force Slideshow
How do I force the new stretchy slideshow? When I force slideshow from the customize menu I just get the old ones.

wellman

cameraguy64 wrote:

How do I force the new stretchy slideshow? When I force slideshow from the customize menu I just get the old ones.

You might be using a non-stretchy theme.

cameraguy64

wellman wrote:

You might be using a non-stretchy theme.

This is the gallery:

http://www.robchron.com/gallery/3527644

I have it set to force slideshow. And the theme is set to default. Stretchy works with the "smugmug" view.

Any ideas?

denisegoldberg

cameraguy64 wrote:

This is the gallery:

http://www.robchron.com/gallery/3527644

I have it set to force slideshow. And the theme is set to default. Stretchy works with the "smugmug" view.

I suspect you've run into the same problem that I have, see http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=136680. I'm seeing the same (mis)behavior on my site wiith both the journal and the slideshow styles. It's been acknowledged as a problem with the underlying smugmugBlack & smugmugWhite - sounds like Andy has it handled. In the meantime he suggested using SmugMug Gradient, or Gradient Grey, or SmugMug Dashed, or Gradient White as a theme for your galleries.

--- Denise

Andy

cameraguy64 wrote:

This is the gallery:

http://www.robchron.com/gallery/3527644

I have it set to force slideshow. And the theme is set to default. Stretchy works with the "smugmug" view.

Any ideas?

Yes, like I've said above, set your theme to Smug Gradient, or Smug Classic, and you'll see the goodnss. We'll fix this in the next day or so and you won't have to do that.

Andy

W.W. Webster wrote:

Thanks Andy. Which reminds me - the caption container seems always a pixel or two wider than the image (to the right). Is that a known bug?

This is a great new SmugMug feature by the way!

It is not a bug, it's the same width as the image with the image border, please look here
http://www.moonriverphotography.com/gallery/3571799_T29nu

collin85

Andy wrote:

I'm sorry, it can't be done yet - add your voice, here: http://smugmug.uservoice.com

Add this:


.gallery_6204330 .journal_caption_container {display: none;}

for just a gallery (like this one:
http://www.collinzphotography.com/gallery/6204330_pxYFf

or this
.journal_caption_container {display: none;} for your whole site. But rememer, there'll be no buy this photo button if you did that. Folks can still use the 'Buy' button at the top of your gallery to buy multiples though. Ask any more questions in the customizing forum, thanks!


to your CSS

Many thanks Andy!

Tbiafore

I have read thru all 6 pages and not really seen my question asked so I am assuming I am missing something. I checked the settings and have my images set to stretched but I am trying to get my main image view that scrolls thru my images on my home page to fill the browser. How can I go about doing this?

Thanks!

www.nerdgodphotography.com

--Thor

Andy

Tbiafore wrote:

I have read thru all 6 pages and not really seen my question asked so I am assuming I am missing something. I checked the settings and have my images set to stretched but I am trying to get my main image view that scrolls thru my images on my home page to fill the browser. How can I go about doing this?

Thanks!

www.nerdgodphotography.com

--Thor

Hi Thor, the homepage slideshow wasn't made stretchy, I'm so sorry!

W.W. Webster

Andy wrote:

It is not a bug, it's the same width as the image with the image border

Thanks. So the design assumption is that the colour of the caption container background is also the colour of a 1px border around the image. In other words, the container has no discernible border.

If I don't want the image border, or if I also want a discernible border around the image container (other than the colour of the container background), what is the customisation code to reduce the width of the container by 2px so the borders will line up? That has me stumped!