carousel issues

mthibodeau

I wanted to use the new carousel display option on some of my galleries, and I customized the gallery page to add that content block, using the images already in that gallery. Problem is, I can't figure out how to delete the gallery display option already there (the smugmug thumbnails one, which I was using before). How?
Thanks.

herojosie

Hi,

Glad to hear you are checking out the new carousel content block If you add that content block though, to a gallery, you will still see the images that are in that gallery, displayed in the gallery style that you have selected. That is in addition to the images that you are displaying in your carousel content block.

If you are looking to have site visitors just see the carousel content block and nothing else, then you would need to create a custom page that has just that content block added. You can then link directly to that custom page and not the gallery.

If you have any other questions about that, just let us know.

mthibodeau

Hmmm, ok. So what's the best way to approach having my visitors see my portfolio images in a carousel, instead of the thumbnail gallery, when I already have a gallery page with those images, so the custom url that all of my links are for is already taken (smugmug/kids, for example)?

Thanks.

herojosie wrote: »

Hi,

Glad to hear you are checking out the new carousel content block If you add that content block though, to a gallery, you will still see the images that are in that gallery, displayed in the gallery style that you have selected. That is in addition to the images that you are displaying in your carousel content block.

If you are looking to have site visitors just see the carousel content block and nothing else, then you would need to create a custom page that has just that content block added. You can then link directly to that custom page and not the gallery.

If you have any other questions about that, just let us know.

herojosie

Hi,

The carousel content block is not a gallery style so it can't quite be used in the way you are looking for. It is a content block and can be added to the site and each gallery if you customize each gallery to include one but it can't be used in place of the existing gallery style, like Thumbnails which you mentioned earlier.

If you wanted to use only the carousel style you would need to create those custom pages. I wouldn't recommend that option though, because the carousel content block would not allow all of the same functions and tools that you see in your gallery. It offers a beautiful way to scroll through images, but the actual buy, share tools etc are available via the galleries themselves and would not be available if you were only using carousel content blocks.

Please let us know if you have more questions about that.

mthibodeau

I don't need the gallery tools such as buy because I want to use the carousel to display my portfolio images, not the images that I share with clients to order, etc, but if I can't make the carousel display for a gallery, it kinda defeats its purpose (What IS its purpose, if not to display gallery images). Excitement deflated. Continue the search for just the right photo hosting client.
Maria