Couple of questions regarding new design

LuckyTCB

I have just transitioned over to the new SmugMug and can't figure out how to do a couple of things and was hoping someone could help.

1. Can I center the SmugMug footer information?
2. How can I make the main image (the one selected, not the thumbnails) on each gallery larger? Right now they just seem kind of small.

www.craiglindemanphoto.com

Thanks!

denisegoldberg

LuckyTCB wrote: »

1. Can I center the SmugMug footer information?
2. How can I make the main image (the one selected, not the thumbnails) on each gallery larger? Right now they just seem kind of small.

Start by turning off the smugmug header and selecting the mini-footer. That will give you a much better looking site.

• Customize
• Content and Design
• Settings

For SmugMug style galleries I'm not aware of a way to specify the size of the large photos. It appears that you have set some pretty wide margins on your page though - it might be worth setting the margins to something smaller. Also, take a look at the customizations on this page to see if there is anything that helps.

--- Denise

LuckyTCB

Thank you so much Denise, this is so much better. I still can't figure out how to get the images bigger, I will have to just keep playing.

denisegoldberg

LuckyTCB wrote: »

Thank you so much Denise, this is so much better. I still can't figure out how to get the images bigger, I will have to just keep playing.

It looks like you have set a fixed margin for your galleries as opposed to setting the gallery to stretchy. If I maximize the browser window with one of your galleries open I end up with a huge amount of white space on both sides of the screen. You might consider trying a stretchy layout and specifying side margins. Check the layout tab in customizations.

--- Denise

LuckyTCB

Thanks Diane, sorry for the late reply, I just checked back in. I tried what you suggested, but it didn't make any difference.

WinsomeWorks

I can't see any info in your images, & Idk if that would tell me anything anyway, but do you know what display sizes you have set as viewable by the public? ( In Customize> Gallery Settings > Appearance -- it says: "Maximum Display size"-- X3Large, X2Large, XLarge, Large, Medium, & you chose one at some point). You can see that mine are displaying pretty large in SmugMug style galleries like this one: http://www.winsomeworks.com/Travel/Pennsylvania/Pennsylvania-Winter/i-9Rx6MC9 I have X3Large set as my display size. Denise may have already checked on that...

LuckyTCB wrote: »

Thanks Diane, sorry for the late reply, I just checked back in. I tried what you suggested, but it didn't make any difference.

WinsomeWorks

See my other response, but here's another thing: If your gallery margins are set wide, that will also change the size of your main preview photo. My galleries are set to 24 px margins, and folders (what used to be called category pages) are set at 36 px. I can't tell you if that's a "good" or "bad" setting, but I know that on my desktop, if I switch the gallery side margins to 36 px instead of 24px, the main photo (in a SmugMug Style gallery) instantly gets smaller, so that it's not actually displaying at the max size I've allowed it to. I also then get 4 thumbs across in each row of thumbs. But if I set the side margins at 24 px, I get 3 thumbs across, & the larger main photo.

Obviously this appearance will change depending what device someone is using, but when I look at your gallery in comparison to mine on the same screen, yes, your main images are much smaller. But like I said, I haven't really had "pro" guidance on my layout, so I can't tell you if there's a good reason to have larger margins. Idk if loading time is affected per image when they're really large either... possibly, although I see no noticeable difference between yours & mine. (btw, when I'm talking about side margins, I mean exactly the settings that are shown in Denise's screenshot. I now have my bottom margins at "0 px" and top margins at 4 px or 8 px, & these too can affect some display sizes, I believe. In Denise's screenshot, both top & bottom are set at "0")

Allen

For Smugmug style galleries the main photo size is generated to be as large as possible
to fit. Any side margins will affect what area is available. I have small side margins because
I added a border around the content and without slight margins the borders would bang the sides.