Gallery display on linking/click through.

softleydoesit

Does anyone know if it's possible when linking a picture on my home page to a gallery for the click to take me to the gallery view rather than the individual picture? Ideally I'd like two pictures on my home page that link to two separate galleries and when clicked on they link to the overview of the gallery, not the same picture as is on the home page.

Hikin' Mike

Drag and Drop a Single Image Block into your home page. There is a setting called "Action on Click" > 'Go to Gallery'. If you need another, repeat.

softleydoesit

Yeah,I tried that and the click opens the gallery briefly but then loads the picture from the front page about a second later. I'd like to just see the whole gallery and not have the single picture load. Also, is it possible to put a single folder on my home page?

Hikin' Mike

Then you'll need to use a HTML/CSS block instead. Add this to the HTML section:

<div>
  <a href="gallery-url-here"><img src="image-url-here" alt="alt text here" /></a>
  <a href="gallery-url-here"><img src="image-url-here" alt="alt text here" /></a>
 </div> 

Add this to the CSS section:

div {text-align:center;}
img {margin: 0 20px;}

This will center two images horizontally with a 20px margin, left and right.

Hikin' Mike

@softleydoesit said:
Also, is it possible to put a single folder on my home page?

Yes, drag and drop a Folder (Add Content Blocks > Galleries > Folder), then "Folders > Select From > Folders I Choose".

softleydoesit

Hi Mike, thanks for your time. The folder info was very useful, almost got me where I want to be in every way except the two galleries in the folder don't center when the page is full screen, they hang left. I've never tried any HTML/CSS before, but am game to give it a go. I read your 'Adding CSS to Your Site', that seems straight forward. As for the HTML, do I have to add info to the green text? Where do I add the HTML to my site?

Update: I added the CSS to the home page with the folder containing the two galleries I want there, and it fixed the left justified images, they now track with the logo and menu, thx.

Bea

You can add a HTML content block to your site via Customize > Content and Design, there's a HTML content block, screenshot: https://take.ms/Ughcn . There's a great help page that explains more about working with content blocks here: https://help.smugmug.com/fine-tune-my-design-with-content-blocks-HJ37leDJVrG

softleydoesit

Thank you, Bea.