photo /gallery organization help

Mdel

Hi All,
I've been through the help sections and checked out alot of the threads on there, but just can not figure out what I'm missing.

I have a sports gallery on my site, with some current Little League baseball pics in it. I have additional photos I've uploaded called "Fall Ball Canes Night at the Batter's Box". Both are currently showing in the gallery section of my website.

I can not figure out how to organize this properly using categories/subcategories, etc. Maybe Sports/Baseball/Fall Ball.. or Sports/Fall Ball. I've tried modifying categories, etc.. with no luck.

Can someone pls help me? Seems like it should be so simple, but I just can't figure it out..

Thanks in advance.
Maureen

jfriend

There are categories, sub-categories and galleries.

A category can contain sub-categories or galleries or both.
A subcategory can only contain galleries.
A gallery contains photos.

You currently have put all your galleries into a category called "Galleries" which is wasting a level. You don't need to do that. You could remove that category called "Galleries" in the control panel and then set up a separate galleries page using this tutorial (steps The Galleries Page I and II).

Mdel

jfriend wrote: »

There are categories, sub-categories and galleries.

A category can contain sub-categories or galleries or both.
A subcategory can only contain galleries.
A gallery contains photos.

You currently have put all your galleries into a category called "Galleries" which is wasting a level. You don't need to do that. You could remove that category called "Galleries" in the control panel and then set up a separate galleries page using this tutorial (steps The Galleries Page I and II).

Hi Jfriend,
Thank you so much for helping. Your explanation sounds so simple, though I am so new website customization and have put so much work into into it, I'm really concerned about making a change that is going to completely screw up the whole site. I checked out the control panel and don't see where I should be removing the category called "Galleries", can you give me just a bit more direction on that. Also, if I change this, is this going to mess up my whole Nav bar?
I appreciate this so much.
Maureen

jfriend

Mdel wrote: »

Hi Jfriend,
Thank you so much for helping. Your explanation sounds so simple, though I am so new website customization and have put so much work into into it, I'm really concerned about making a change that is going to completely screw up the whole site. I checked out the control panel and don't see where I should be removing the category called "Galleries", can you give me just a bit more direction on that. Also, if I change this, is this going to mess up my whole Nav bar?
I appreciate this so much.
Maureen

Go to the customize tab in the control panel and see where you can edit your categories.

When you change the category structure of your site, you may have to fix a couple links in your navbar. But, all you will need to do is put an updated URL into your navbar for any of the links that have category stuff in the URL. It should be no big deal.

Mdel

jfriend wrote: »

Go to the customize tab in the control panel and see where you can edit your categories.

When you change the category structure of your site, you may have to fix a couple links in your navbar. But, all you will need to do is put an updated URL into your navbar for any of the links that have category stuff in the URL. It should be no big deal.

Ok, I've deleted the Galleries category in the control panel.

Also, I've followed the tutorial which basically duplicated my homepage into that galleries section of the nav bar, it's showing the slideshow and picture as on the homepage even though I've included the text in the CSS not to do this, not sure why.

Do I now need to go into the actual picture galleries and set them into different categories?

jfriend

Mdel wrote: »

Ok, I've deleted the Galleries category in the control panel.

Also, I've followed the tutorial which basically duplicated my homepage into that galleries section of the nav bar, it's showing the slideshow and picture as on the homepage even though I've included the text in the CSS not to do this, not sure why.

Do I now need to go into the actual picture galleries and set them into different categories?

I see a couple initial problems (there may be more to fix after this):

1) In your bottom javascript, add the part in red:

[color=red]//[/color]------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Code to insert a download button 
// 
// Works for any gallery that has originals enabled
// And right-click protection off
// And gallery is in smugmug or smugmug small view
// ------------------------------------------------------------------------

2) In your navbar, change the link to the galleries page from this:

http://www.yourworldmylens.com/Galleries

to this (note the lowercase g in galleries):

http://www.yourworldmylens.com/galleries

Mdel

Ahh... those little things that make such a difference. I've done both. I think it may have worked as far as not showing the slideshow and single photo.

What's my next step?

Mdel

jfriend wrote: »

I see a couple initial problems (there may be more to fix after this):

1) In your bottom javascript, add the part in red:

[COLOR=red]//[/COLOR]------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Code to insert a download button 
// 
// Works for any gallery that has originals enabled
// And right-click protection off
// And gallery is in smugmug or smugmug small view
// ------------------------------------------------------------------------

2) In your navbar, change the link to the galleries page from this:

http://www.yourworldmylens.com/Galleries

to this (note the lowercase g in galleries):

http://www.yourworldmylens.com/galleries

I've been going over and over this. I think I'm a bit further, though still confused.
1). In my "galleries" from navbar, the sports category is showing as password protected. I'd like this to show as a regular pic thumbnail, and password protect the galleries inside it, but it won't be all of them.
2). I'm still having a bit of trouble with the category/subcategory/levels. Portraits, I've figured out. But the Animals section... I don't want it to take me to another Animals section. Just one.
3). Clients is showing in the Galleries section... this I would like only accessible through the navbar..

Thanks, yet again for all the help!