issues that are preventing me from taking my site live

amf digital media

Well, aside from adding some photos and verbiage, my site is pretty much done. To be honest, from the perspective of someone whos used to coding their own stuff, it's been a bit of a pain dealing with the nuances of a proprietary platform such as SmugMug. Had I known that javascript, embed code, or even iframes are a no-no; I probably would have opted for Joomla, Drupal, or a hand coding. I will admit that SmugMug does in fact have its perks... I didn't really want to mess with e-commerce orfulfillment, and this is a pretty good solution.

You can check out my site here, if you'd like: http://www.amfdigitalmedia.com/

At any rate, a few remaining items are holding me up. Any guidance would be much appreciated.

1) I really, really, REALLY, need to find a way to embed Google Maps into SmugMug. I am a Google Certified Photographer, and would like to showcase my work without having my users exit the site.

2) I can't quite figure out the CSS necessary to keep elements of the Accordion Menu open. When someone clicks through to an item below Photography in the left nav, I'd like for that section to be expanded, and for the specific item to be selected. http://www.amfdigitalmedia.com/

3) There are unnecessary line breaks <br> included in RSS feeds, and the Titles do not link to the appropriate place. You can see an example under the Blog heading of the homepage. http://www.amfdigitalmedia.com/

4) Again, this is related to the fact that script & frames aren't supported, but has anyone successfully incorporated AddThis functionality into their site? And yes, I realize that they have an image based approach, but that's not what I'm looking for. http://www.addthis.com/

Thank you!

ChancyRat

2) I can't quite figure out the CSS necessary to keep elements of the Accordion Menu open. When someone clicks through to an item below Photography in the left nav, I'd like for that section to be expanded, and for the specific item to be selected. http://www.amfdigitalmedia.com/

I love your site and want to know how you set up the 3 columns with the colors?
One cannot click into them, so they are titles only?

And I also want to know how to keep the accordion permanently open.
As for how to make the sub-folders available in the left nav, go to the links in the left nav, and for each one you want the viewer to be able to open, click to edit a link and then turn on "include folder contents".

Darter02

@ AMF It looks like a number of your galleries are missing their cover images. All I see are titles and the default gallery icons.

Also thanks for the heads up on the google business thing! I just put in my application for this area.

amf digital media

ChancyRat wrote: »

I love your site and want to know how you set up the 3 columns with the colors?
One cannot click into them, so they are titles only?

And I also want to know how to keep the accordion permanently open.
As for how to make the sub-folders available in the left nav, go to the links in the left nav, and for each one you want the viewer to be able to open, click to edit a link and then turn on "include folder contents".

Thank you for the compliment! The colored columns are just headings for now, but I may add some additional text or link them at some point. I set them up using the following code in the HTML content block:

[HTML]<div style="background-color:yellow; color:#333; text-align:center; padding:12px;"><h1 style="color:magenta !important;">photography</h1></div>[/HTML]

amf digital media

Darter02 wrote: »

@ AMF It looks like a number of your galleries are missing their cover images. All I see are titles and the default gallery icons.

Also thanks for the heads up on the google business thing! I just put in my application for this area.

Thanks for pointing that out. I still need to add a lot of content and images to the site.