Main page, multiple home pages

TallPhotoGuy

How do you do a main page that then links to multiple (4) home pages. I have seen one in this forum, can't fine link at this moment, just need a few steps to get started

denisegoldberg

There is only one home page but you could place images on your home page that each link to a different gallery or folder. Drag a Navigation folder and galleries (or a folders and galleries and pages) content block onto your home page. Select "Items I choose" and select the folders and/or galleries.

See Navigation section of this help page - http://help.smugmug.com/customer/portal/articles/1210628-customization-what-are-content-blocks-how-are-they-used-.

You can see an example of how this works on my Kaleidoscope page - http://www.denisegoldberg.com/Kaleidoscope.

--- Denise

TallPhotoGuy

Thanks. I was thinking more along the lines of jakigoodmiller.com

denisegoldberg

TallPhotoGuy wrote: »

Thanks. I was thinking more along the lines of jakigoodmiller.com

You should be able to do that by placing images on your home page with a click to gallery (or folder). You would need to create the images in the desired aspect ration first. Then place a multiple photos block on the page selecting from "photos I choose".

Have you experimented with any of these content blocks? I would recommend trying both the photo blocks and the navigation blocks to determine which would meet your needs.

--- Denise

TallPhotoGuy

When you click on a link that goes to a logical site with a home page. You can browse and all the normal stuff. Home will take you to the home page on the logical site. Main will take you to the main page and you can then go to a different logical site, but within a logical site you can't go to a 2nd site without going back to the main. Her main page has no menu block. I will go play and figure it out. Thanks

denisegoldberg

TallPhotoGuy wrote: »

When you click on a link that goes to a logical site with a home page. You can browse and all the normal stuff. Home will take you to the home page on the logical site. Main will take you to the main page and you can then go to a different logical site, but within a logical site you can't go to a 2nd site without going back to the main. Her main page has no menu block. I will go play and figure it out. Thanks

Yes, and once you select a "site" on her page you have no idea where you are since there is no indication of which page you chose once you land there.

--- Denise

TallPhotoGuy

My banner content blocks are menu, logo, and social. I can't hot link thru the logo and would like to. What content blocks r u using as everything connects back to a different page

ChancyRat

TallPhotoGuy wrote: »

Thanks. I was thinking more along the lines of jakigoodmiller.com

Jakigoodmiller site:
- renamed the SM homepage, to "Main"
- On the Main (real homepage), if you click Portraits, you are taken to a sub-subcategory of the real home:
Portraits/Home

http://www.jakigoodmiller.com/Portraits/Home

The links on that page (on the left bar), are also sub-subcategories (a sub-folder of the folder Portraits), e.g.,:
http://www.jakigoodmiller.com/Portraits/Portfolio

When you set up the kind of page Denise describes, you assign the name of a link, and it can be different than the actual structure link name in the URL. That's why that site can call the homepage, "main", and the Portrait/Home, "Home".

TallPhotoGuy

Thanks. I want to build is a family site with a main page and a home page for each family (4). On the main page there are 4 pictures that have a hot link to the 4 home pages, family1…family4. The title of the main page is “Hewitt Photography”. The title of each home page would be “Hewitt Photography – family 1”, “Hewitt Photography – family 2”, and so on.

Once on one of the four home pages the menu bar would be “main”, “home”, “galleries”, “contact”, and maybe “search”. “Main” would take you to the main site page (the one with the 4 pictures, “Home” would take you to the top level for the home page you are currently in. If you are looking at a gallery for family 1, Home takes you to the home page of family 1.

On the Hewitt Photography main page the menu bar would have, “Main”, “Families” and “Contact”. Since you are on the main page, Main just is a reload, “Families” could be a drop down that then list the 4 home pages. That way you can get to a family home page 2 ways, thru the menu bar or a linked picture. Also the title is hot and performs the same function as “home” in the menu bar.

Since I logically have 4 sites, main and 4 x family there are no entire site settings, correct

As per Denise’s suggestions, I can do what I want to as per above. Any other suggestions for improvements.

ChancyRat

Sounds just like the jakigoodmiller site, so you've got a good model to follow in that.
As for what's on entire site, that's your decision also.
It might be good to figure out what if anything you do need on entire site first.
If you set that aside, and "make each folder separate", so you can add backgrounds, different folders, etc., and *then* you realize you wanted something on all the folders, you will need to add that to each folder, and keep them updated.

Actually there's probably no way out of this loop, you can only figure out what you need as you go along.

TallPhotoGuy

Thanks. I don't mind making each folder separate or custom (just this folder) but on galleries how do avoid having custom galleries in each folder. If I have 2 custom folders I want 2 custom galleries, one for each folder, not custom galleries for each gallery. i.e 2 folders and folder has 10 galleries all galleries are the same and the 2nd folder has 8 galleries, so I have 2 custom galleries, not 18