Feature Request: "Story" style

jfriendjfriend Registered Users Posts: 8,097 Major grins
edited October 13, 2012 in SmugMug Support
I love the idea behind this gallery style in this new photo sharing service: http://news.yahoo.com/thislife-makes-online-photo-storage-and-organization-a-breeze.html. It lets you tell a story with your photos by letting you create a "story" of your images. Now, I haven't actually tried this one out, but I like the idea of what is describe in the article and this is something I've often wanted to do, but never been able to do on Smugmug.

Right now we get photos and captions in a fixed format, but it isn't quite the same as actually creating a story with your images that contains some explanatory text, a group of images, some more text, another group of images, etc... This is what I'd like to do for sharing with friends and family after a big trip (like climbing Mt. Whitney or safari in Africa). Now, when I want to do this, I have to go off Smugmug to other tools in order to create the desired experience.
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  • AllenAllen Registered Users Posts: 10,013 Major grins
    edited October 11, 2012
    I thought the journal (old) style was basically for this? The new journal style just doesn't work with
    the big photo and caption below. But for a device app it would be nice.
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  • jfriendjfriend Registered Users Posts: 8,097 Major grins
    edited October 11, 2012
    Allen wrote: »
    I thought the journal (old) style was basically for this? The new journal style just doesn't work with
    the big photo and caption below. But for a device app it would be nice.
    The journal old doesn't work for me. It's fixed width. It's one picture per block of text (I want a group of pictures for each block of text), it's an old design that Smugmug seems to want to get rid of, it doesn't work well for mobile, the pictures don't auto-size, the layout is too fixed in size, etc...
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  • jemostromjemostrom Registered Users Posts: 136 Major grins
    edited October 13, 2012
    I would also like to see something like this
    Jan Erik Moström
  • TerenceYamTerenceYam Registered Users Posts: 9 Beginner grinner
    edited October 13, 2012
    This looks great. But I guess that's what you can create with WordPress.
  • jemostromjemostrom Registered Users Posts: 136 Major grins
    edited October 13, 2012
    Using WP is a bit of a pain if you want to use a lot of photos. I've been using WP for doing things like this but it really awkward if you use more then 2-5 pictures in one page/post. It would be so much nicer to have a photo site that allowed some text than a text site that allowed a few photos.
    Jan Erik Moström
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