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problem: drop blocks into highlighted areas
crockny
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I don't even get the drop blocks into highlighted areas bit - none of this is user friendly to me ... what highlighted areas? And does content block mean I type something in another program and paste it into my site? I'm clueless ...
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Before clicking modify site, go to the URL you want to work on, such as homepage.
Then click modify site.
Choose which area of your site you want to modify from the top right corner: choose entire site, homepage, folders, or galleries.
Then there are 3 tabs, content, theme, layout.
You could check layout first and choose some of the basics you want to try.
The theme tab should have a theme chosen, and if you over over it there's a wrench that will let you tweak more settings for the theme.
Back to content.
Go to the content tab. Choose a block you want to use
Choose the one you want. Example: photo.
Drag the photo block into the page. Different sections of the page will light up, or not.
Look for the lighting up to indicate that you can drop the block in place.
Different content blocks may go in only some places, or in many places. You can place multiple blocks of different content, above, beside, or below, other content blocks.
You may have to hover the block you are holding with the mouse, to find the highlight/drop areas, they can be thin. Then in each block, you will see at the top a wrench and a triangle, for settings and positioning tweaking.
This is not really hard once you've done a couple of them. It's fun to find the customizations and what they do.
CSS for the entire site is input through: Theme/Current Theme/wrench/Advanced Tab/Add CSS.
In any gallery you can customize just the gallery with both HTML and CSS as well, there is a CSS block to drag into a specific gallery.
If this isn't easy to follow, just say and I'll try again.
What I do is "Publish", which is private for you only (does not commit you to the new format).
When I come back next time, I pick up editing where I left off.
I suspect that you have 2 themes now, one that you have saved for later and one that is what is "published".
Open to customize, on the right, click themes, scroll to bottom of the list to see "my themes", click plus sign to see what you have there. Choose the one you want to resume working on.
"publish" has worked for me, very simple.
If and when I want to try something completely new, I start a 2nd theme.
This means the more committed you are to the edits you are making, the more time you have put into the theme, the harder it will be to change themes. Any customization you make, you will have do a 2nd time in a new theme.
How come after I arrange my homepage as best I can and hit done, save for later, I get what looks like a home page with nothing on it but huge photos?
http://untamednewyork.smugmug.com/
If it's still wrong, someone else with more experience may have to help at this point. There is a place where you can choose the photo sizes or style type (portrait, thumbnails, etc. I'm not sure where you need to go to tweak them.
You could also try, in the block that is causing the problems (did you add a photo block for example? or folders?), there's a wrench on the top bar of the block, left corner (also the triangle for positiioning). Click the wrench and see your options to change sizes, etc.
drag a menubox into sitewide field
then edit that menu
you can name the links into whatever you want
and , as long as you not migrate to new , nobody can see it except yourself
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For detailed instructions on how to make the menu see the SmugMug help page: http://help.smugmug.com/customer/portal/articles/1222523-customization-how-do-i-make-a-navigation-menu-
SmugMug has some great tutorials on how to create the New SmugMug. Just like any "new" thing there will be a learning curve. Your Heritage SmugMug site had a learning curve that you overcame. There's a lot of great help on the SmugMug pages (http://help.smugmug.com and http://school.smugmug.com) as well as a lot of great people on here. I guarantee you that by staying calm, not getting frustrated, and playing around you'll find it's actually pretty easy to make a great looking page here.
As mentioned, nobody will see what you've done until you choose to "UNVEIL" your site. By "Publishing" you're site you're just making your changes active. Saving it for Later keeps your changes in SmugMug's servers but doesn't make it active for you to see.
Former SmugMug Product Team
aaron AT aaronmphotography DOT com
Website: http://www.aaronmphotography.com
My SmugMug CSS Customizations website: http://www.aaronmphotography.com/Customizations
I'm pretty sure that is the gallery section from Legacy's Journal(Old) page - it doesn't transfer nicely. You can't seem to do anything with it.
I couldn't get rid of it either and did as you are - created a new page in New Smug
www.acecootephotography.com
NewSmug as new "Pages".
To create these pages go to the organizer page. You can create a folder for all these type pages or
just have them stand alone'.
Stand alone - Highlight your name on the upper left tree.
See Create button above it and click "page" in drop.
Find the new page at bottom of tree and click it.
Click "Done" upper right to open page.
Click customize > customize site
"Just This Page" should be highlight in the right flyout
Below it all all the content blocks you can drag to the page.
Some of them you have to click to expand
For an info page you probably want a text or html box and maybe a photo.
I'd start by coping whatever legacy content and paste in.
My Website index | My Blog
Allan, I haven't started this yet, but I didn't think I would do it this way. For a page where I had a lot of HTML, I was going to go to the page where I see it, and then customize the page and add in the HTML or text blocks. Copy the text that I see, into the new blocks, and delete whatever I need to.
Why would I create new pages if that's going to change the URL? Is there anything wrong with doing it the way I'm thinking? Thanks.
boxes needed.
If on legacy you used an unlisted gallery and the generic link /gallery/XXXXX_xxxx so the
path is not shown in the browser url it will be shown in NewSmug. On NewSmug if you
create the page at the top level there will be no path shown.
My Website index | My Blog
The little green bars and boxes are just showing you options. When I'm not sure where I want a block, I move the mouse/block around on the page and see where the green bars show up. Sometimes if you already have blocks in place, you can still add blocks between, above, or below them.
I'm kind of cranky myself over some of the limits in the new smugmug, but on the other hand it's kind of helpful to just keep playing with the formatting options, as it helps me get more comfortable.
One example of Zenfolio versus Smugmug is that in new SM, CSS no longer is added in only one place. So if you want to customize just one page, you have to go to that page and add a CSS block. It turns out Zenfolio has the same limitation.
Huh? In the New SmugMug if you add CSS to your Advanced Theme settings CSS section it applies to all pages. I really don't ever use CSS blocks on my New SmugMug page.
Former SmugMug Product Team
aaron AT aaronmphotography DOT com
Website: http://www.aaronmphotography.com
My SmugMug CSS Customizations website: http://www.aaronmphotography.com/Customizations
Well, I am known for jumping in with an answer that can cause more problems than it solves... but I thought that if you wanted to add CSS for a single page, like,
Plants/Flowers/Red/Tulips/InMyBackyard,
you would need to go to InMyBackyard and add the css block there, for that page only.
Isn't that why they have CSS blocks now? For individual pages?
I swear I saw complaints about this, because users miss the single CSS location where they were able to add all code for any individual page, as well as for site-wide.
Well yes, the CSS block is used for customizing an individual page differently than the rest of the pages. I'm doing that on my Customizations pages on my website, for example (http://www.aaronmphotography.com/Customizations).
But isn't that exactly what you'd want on SmugMug? A way to customize the site all in one place, then a second method to customize an individual page. I don't remember having that option in Legacy SmugMug. You could only customize the entire site.
Are you saying you wish on the Advanced tab there was one button for "Sitewide CSS" and one for "CSS Just for This Page"? I don't think it's very complicated the way it is now. Or are you taking about Zenfolio?
Former SmugMug Product Team
aaron AT aaronmphotography DOT com
Website: http://www.aaronmphotography.com
My SmugMug CSS Customizations website: http://www.aaronmphotography.com/Customizations
I thought my old CSS (which was created for my by all the heros on this forum!!!