Anonymously embedding a gallery?

pekr

Hi,

while working for an enterprise, I also own a photo studio - kind of a hobby, you know :-) Our studio was allowed to shoot our company anniversary party. We created few galleries and then the company wanted to show the party photos to its employees.

Well, as a head of IT, I am really disappointed to state, that the SharePoint 2010 gallery "capabilities" really suck big time. This is really degrading our work, so I asked responsible persons, if we could use much nicer SM galleries.

The answer was - yes, but ppl should not be able to see a link and to send/share it outside of the company. Hmm, now it gets tricky a bit.

1. I tried the new Slideshow embedding, turned on the context menu protection, it works nicely, but misses just one thing - gallery image thumbnails. Well, strange feeling, as it does 95% of what I need. But there's lot of images and ppl will surely not wait for the slideshow to proceed, each time from the very beginning of the gallery.
2. I then tried just using an iframe, but it shows menus and breadcrumb navigation. I disconnected the gallery from the site design, deleted breadcrumb navigation, but am hesitant to delete menu there, as hovering it shows "site wide", or something like that. Hence - using just a private domain link can't do it, unless there is some other trick.
3. I tried to hide an owner. The private domain link was replaced by just smugmug, no menus, looks quite good, but then it uses the dark grey design, whereas our SharePoint site is white, so does not feel good.
4. Tried embed.ly, but could not make it to work at all, dunno why ...

Any tips appreciated. Maybe I want just too much, but you know - those company rules :-)


Thanks,
Best regards,
Petr

http://studio.2zone.cz
http://markova-photo.cz

mrneutron

Hi Petr.

SmugMug does not allow external embedding of galleries. Hide owner removes all customization so it will just show the black theme.
The html5 slideshow is the closest you can get at this time.

jerryr

Hi Petr - I agree with the above.

As a thought - perhaps you can design a theme within you SmugMug site to match the branding of the business/company.
If designed correctly - you can have multiple theme designs within your SmugMug site.
Examples :
http://www.snitzerphotography.com/ (one SmugMug site - four visible themes)
http://www.vanessak.com/ (one SmugMug site - two themes)
http://www.jakigoodmiller.com/ (one SmugMug site - four themes)

More examples of SmugMug creativity : http://www.jrphotosandwebdesign.com/SmugMug-Customization/SmugMug-Customization-Creative/

As a side note I do SharePoint site administration and design and agree that the slideshow functionality offered by SharePoint is not state-of-the-art.

- jerryr

pekr

@mrneutron - thanks, that's what I thought. The Slideshow is almost there, but not fully there. As I said - noone will wait to see the slideshow from the very beginning. Pity a gallery can't be embedded that way

@jerryr - I can customize the theme, but if I want to embed the gallery anonymously, the only option is to let it be seen outside of my domain, via a /smugmug.com/gallery/xyz link. But then - you are not logged into your account, so your theem does not apply, and the default theme of Smugmug, is a dark one ...