Getting users to see ALL "popular photos," not just the ones w/ visible thumbnails.

LA Landscapes

Did a search but didn't find anything on this.

I've added a "Popular Photos" block to my home page, but limited it to one row, as I don't want that to dominate the page. Now, however, I can't find anyway for users to get from the home page to a gallery showing all of my popular photos. If I set the click action to "go to gallery," it goes to the original gallery for the photo. Am I missing something?

http://calilandscapes.smugmug.com

denisegoldberg

As you've already seen, if you create a photo block and set it to "popular photos" you can't specify that clicking take the viewer to all popular photos. Have you considered using the minimal popular photos block that you have currently set up plus a text tag that links to the full set of popular photos? Using the url http://calilandscapes.smugmug.com/popular will take your viewers to the full gallery of your popular photos. Drag an HTML block onto the page and set up a url to take the viewer to all popular photos.

Feel free to ignore my comments below - they reflect my reaction to your homepage but that may not fit with your desired look & feel.

You might want to reconsider the content on your home page anyway - I suspect folks won't scroll down the full set of entries to see the popular photos as they are buried at the bottom of the page. I think using a navbar to direct your viewers to California galleries, all folders, and popular would be more effective.

Also - while I understand the desire to highlight your California galleries, the muted shading of the gallery thumbs would not entice me to enter any galleries.

--- Denise

LA Landscapes

Thanks for the tip about adding the URL. Perhaps this could be made more obvious in the page-building area or a new click option can be added when choosing "popular photos" to take people to all popular photos. I think that would be much more intuitive.

I'll consider the navbar. Thanks for the tip.