About the home page.

Ellenmac

As a new user of Smugmug and a senior (not that computer literate ) I have not found how to get only the Galleries to show on the home page instead of pictures. I would appreciate any help here. Hope it is not to complicated. I watched some video clips which completely confused me.

Smug Eric

You should just need to go into the customize menu and drag a galleries or a folders content block onto your homepage, then in the options for that block choose where you want the block to pull the galleries or folders from in your site.

Ellenmac

I must be stupid but my Galleries do not show for me to drag them on to the home page. I tried to do what you said, but no luck with that.

Allen

Ellenmac wrote: »

I must be stupid but my Galleries do not show for me to drag them on to the home page. I tried to do what you said, but no luck with that.

A galleries box will show a gallery group from whatever folder you set the for. Or you can set it to
recent and few other things in "Select From".

How many galleries do you want to show?

Ellenmac

A friend of mine has all his galleries showing on his homepage, i like that it is showing all the different categories that he has. He live in Canada and I in Australia so I cant ask him how it,s done.
I have only four galleries so far. I figure that when I upload more pictures even though they will go in to their respective galleries they will also show up on my home page as well. I don't particular
like that. Thank you by the way for trying to help me, but I fear I dont understand what you are talking about.

Allen

Add a folder box to your homepage and set "select from" to "current location". This will at least
show all your category (legacy term) folders or top level folders.

Or set it to only the folders you want to show by using "choose".

Ellenmac

Sorry Allan, How do you create a folder box. I did make a folder I did not see a thing called to current location. I moved the folder to Ellenmac but it does not show any different from what it showed before. I watched the video for 50 some thing minutes, but by the time it was finished I had forgotten what he did.
It is very frustrating for me, I don't consider my self stupid but this I dont understand. I am a person who like to see in written form with pictures how to do thing so I can follow the instruction better. I hate when I cant get what I would like to see. Looks I wasted my 60 dollars.
here is my http://ellenmac.smugmug.com/ perhaps you could have a look and see were I am going wrong please.

Allen

On your homepage at the top click customize > customize site
On the right flyout make sure "homepage" is highlighted.
On the right flyout click the content tab

Under "Add Content Blocks" click on "navigation" to expand it then
Find "folders" and drag with your mouse over to the page.
- You will see a long horizontal green box show up.
let go of the mouse

On that box (blue I think) in the left corner click on the wrench
click basic tab
For "Select From" set it to "top level"
The box will now show all your top level folders (categories on legacy)

Ellenmac

Allen wrote: »

On your homepage at the top click customize > customize site
On the right flyout make sure "homepage" is highlighted.
On the right flyout click the content tab

Under "Add Content Blocks" click on "navigation" to expand it then
Find "folders" and drag with your mouse over to the page.
- You will see a long horizontal green box show up.
let go of the mouse

On that box (blue I think) in the left corner click on the wrench
click basic tab
For "Select From" set it to "top level"
The box will now show all your top level folders (categories on legacy)

Allan your blood needs to be bottled. I printed your message out and followed the instructions. Well my folder is now showing on the left side of my homepage. Now i need to know how do i remove the pictures which are still there on the right side, or do they need to stay there?
Thank you so much for your help, I truly appreciate it.

Allen

Ellenmac wrote: »

Allan your blood needs to be bottled. I printed your message out and followed the instructions. Well my folder is now showing on the left side of my homepage. Now i need to know how do i remove the pictures which are still there on the right side, or do they need to stay there?
Thank you so much for your help, I truly appreciate it.

You can remove the existing photo box by clicking the trash can in the upper left.

You can move the new box to a page wide position. Grab the up/down arrow icon top left of box, hold mouse down, drag around till the box gos page wide.

Ellenmac

Allen wrote: »

You can remove the existing photo box by clicking the trash can in the upper left.

You can move the new box to a page wide position. Grab the up/down arrow icon top left of box, hold mouse down, drag around till the box gos page wide.

I did get rid of all the Photos. But the to get the new box page wide I did not manage, but it does not matter that much. I will probably add a lot more folders in the future. Thank you Allan again.