Backstory about a photo

Steve_Burkholder

Is there a way in SmugMug to create a block of text that attaches to a photo and changes with each photo. I'm looking to write some text to give context to individual photos, kind of like a backstory to a photograph. This would be more text than the "comments" section would normally allow. I've looked at various sites and can't seem to find any examples of this nor can I find anything similar in the help menus.
What I envision is sidebar (block of text) which when a photo in a gallery is displayed the sidebar would display along with the photo.

denisegoldberg

The only way I am aware of to attach text to a photo in a gallery is to use the Title and Caption for the photo. You can see an example of this on my site in the gallery https://www.denisegoldberg.com/Medley/galleries-by-date/n-GzNHG/.

You could also think about creating a page on your site using a combination of photos and text (or html). You can pretty much create whatever you want using this method. This page on my site uses a Folders, Galleries, and Pages block to show the photos and an HTML block to show the text: https://www.denisegoldberg.com/Kaleidoscope/

Here's the help page on creating custom pages:
https://www.smugmughelp.com/en/articles/346-create-custom-pages

Steve_Burkholder

Thanks Denise for getting back to me. That was my conclusion as well, that the site only allowed Title and Captions. I looked through your site and was really impressed with the overall quality of the presentation. I especially liked your blog and now I'm beginning to think that I may be able to accomplish something similar to what I envisioned by using that format. I'll need to try a few pages and see how they come out. Am I correct to assume that your site has completely moved from the standard templates as offered and you are using mostly custom code at this point?

denisegoldberg

I use very little custom code on my site; most of it is standard SmugMug.

Both the "kaleidoscope" and "about" pages on my site are pages containing HTML/CSS and photo blocks.
The "gallery" page is a page containing a Folders block.

My blog is hosted on Blogger; I matched the look and feel of the blog to my SmugMug site.

If you are interested in creating blog pages directly in SmugMug you might be interested in this tutorial: https://school.smugmug.com/SmugMug-Tips/How-to-Make-a-Photo-Blog

Let me know if you have questions!