Take galleries out of folders and ...
crockny
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Hi - I'm still working on changing the legacy smugmug to the new ...
I have multiple galleries in multiple folders. I now want to create a galleries page with all galleries showing - no folders. I want a nav bar or link to galleries on my homepage but not to show any galleries.
What's the best way to start???? I can't even figure out how to get the galleries out of the folders!
I have multiple galleries in multiple folders. I now want to create a galleries page with all galleries showing - no folders. I want a nav bar or link to galleries on my homepage but not to show any galleries.
What's the best way to start???? I can't even figure out how to get the galleries out of the folders!
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You can certainly add a menu block and set up links that way. Even just one link, and move it where you want it (if not at the top of the page like a normal menu).
You can also use a text block. That feature let's you add a link. Type the name of the gallery (or whatever you want the viewer to read), then highlight that and click the link icon, and add the URL.
Add a navigation block (or several as needed). You'll see options for what content to add. If you go the "galleries I choose" option, the thumbnails will show up in the order you left-click them to select them. You can also navigate to and from different folders to select more galleries. However if you want to re-order them you'll have to start over with the left-click method. So in this case it might be easier to add several blocks where you add the contents of each folder, and can more easily manage the order of the thumbs.
http://www.charleschesslerphotography.com/coney_island_mermaid_parade
I did make a page but I cannot get the thumbnails to be small enough and spread over the entire screen ...
The best way to manage edits to your site is indeed, Done/Publish.
(Avoid Preview which has some bug.)
I usually have a 2nd browser window open to the side, where I view in Organize mode.
But you do not have to access a gallery/folder/page by entering via Organize.
An easy help would be to add the All Folders/Galleries/Pages block to your home page. That will give you all the thumbnails by which you can navigate where you need.
You might ask for code to get what you want.
I don't think that's a smugmug site because the name/date description under each thumbnail, is not SM. Or, if it is, it may be in legacy mode with javascript to get that neat switching effect. Java isn't allowed in new SM.
When you've added the galleries block to your page, click the wrench icon on the upper left brighter blue area, and select your options, which include setting the no. of pixels between each thumbnail, as well as where the title should show (on, above, etc.)
I'm not finding the CSS customization I thought there would be for locating or modifying the titles, but these may interest you.
http://www.sherlockphotography.org/Customisations/Smaller-gallery-icons
http://www.aaronmphotography.com/Customizations/Gallery
Love these customizations - I made the smallest thumbnails I could - thanks again!
Sometimes the area to drop a block into, is way on the right or left side, out of your view. This happens often when dropping one block to the side of another. Move the mouse to the left or right and keep "moving" it, and the page will scroll and suddenly the vertical green bar will appear.
The area to drop is usually a horizontal or vertical light green bar.
Apparently the new home page is on a separate page which is not recognized as home ...
http://untamednewyork.smugmug.com/Home
How do I hook this up?
Actually the area to drop it into was the list on the left, not the large blank area that said "here"!
Every page has multiple areas to drop. Don't just find the first one and drop it. You have to choose your locations: header, footer, left bar, right bar, main body. Once you've placed a block, you can add more in that area, above, below, to the left or right.
You probably placed the blocks in the wrong place?
http://untamednewyork.smugmug.com/
The link you sent:
http://untamednewyork.smugmug.com/Home
So this means you created another folder/gallery/or page called Home. But it's a sub-link to the real home.
Go into the Organizer mode and check your entire structure.
If you wanted the content in http://untamednewyork.smugmug.com/Home to actually reside in http://untamednewyork.smugmug.com/, you will need to recreate the blocks there. (Blocks aren't copiable, and neither are galleries.)
gwen
To be safe about Done/Publish, I kill the window I'm copying from, then Done/Publish the window with the new content.
http://untamednewyork.smugmug.com/
- go to the section to change (all galleries, where the light theme might be, for example)
- click the Theme tab on the black flyout, scroll to the bottom of the available themes
- click the My Themes, and choose the correct theme to apply.
- Apply it, then Done/Publish
You need to do this to each of your site sections to have the same and only one theme apply to the entire site.
Hmm, not sure. Did you place the slideshow in the footer area rather than the main body?
Yes because you can't seem to stack multiple blocks underneath each other in the same area - or am I wrong (I hope)?
But first you need to drag the slideshow and just find the main body (between header and footer).
You should have clicked into it first on the right side black flyout, top of the list.
It's possible you are in a gallery without knowing it, and may be seeing the locked SM block that is not editable.
I'm not a slideshow person - I see h about 7 inches, w about 10 in on my large laptop screen.
There are several slideshow types, I think.
Try the links at the top on this page:
http://www.dgrin.com/forumdisplay.php?f=64
http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=243817&highlight=slideshow
Also click the wrench on the upper left corner of the slideshow block, for display options.
Also the triangle ruler icon for container and margins, to maximize sizes.
I don't think it should be in the footer...
I would put it back in the main body and pursue getting a solution that way.
Yes I put it back and have an approximation of what I would like - good enough for now.
I added a photo for my homepage background and I thought there was a way to change the opacity but I don't see it ... do you know of a way?
Edit theme (black right flyout), click wrench.
Advanced tab, scroll down, the alpha bars are transparency for the different sections.