I'd like to make ONE gallery have different color settings

wibubba · August 27, 2013

I've got one gallery that I'm going to use as a blog with Journal style in the New SmugMug. I find white text on a dark background very annoying and hard to read.

I'd like to be able to take that one gallery and make the background behind the photos and text (text entered in the Description box) lighter, and then all the text dark.

There must be a way to do this but I'll be damned if I can figure it out or find a relevant thread.

thenickdude · August 27, 2013

You can add a CSS block to that journal page and write some custom CSS in there to do that. That's how I'd do it, anyway.

Do you have a link to the page that you're hoping to customise?

wibubba · August 27, 2013

This is the one: http://www.eaglecreekphoto.com/Random-Musings

I'm not a CSS wizard. Any idea what I might put in there?

Also.....I'd like to use this as a blog and be able to use URL's to share occasionally. It's being difficult.

dallasw · August 29, 2013

To make a gallery look unique, you can force it to stop inheriting customizations from 'All Galleries'. This means you can give it a custom color scheme without writing a line of CSS. On the downside, if you change the Content Blocks for 'All Galleries', your unique gallery won't get updated.

If you're interested, here's how it can be done:

Go to the Gallery you want to change and click 'Customize Site' in the 'Customize' menu in the header.
Click the text in the side panel that says "+ Make This Gallery Custom". It's near the top, nested under the 'All Galleries' section.
At the prompt, click 'YES' to make the gallery unique.
Click on the 'Themes' tab in that side panel.
Choose a theme you like, i.e. SmugMug Light or some other light theme, and publish your site.

Darter02 · August 29, 2013

Doing it via creating a unique theme is great way to do this as mentioned. I did an experiment with this earlier, and it worked. Just be sure to copy your main site's CSS that you've placed in its theme into the unique one as well. At least for CSS codes you want to have the same behavior as the rest of the site.

wibubba · September 5, 2013

Thank you gentlemen. I'll give this a try once I get some sleep.

b-grinner · September 12, 2013

Theme does not default to what is in template
Here is a weird one.

I open a new design. Choosing template.

The entire site page seems to be fine. However as soon as I go to homepage, folders, galleries block the theme seems to revert to a Smugmug theme.

Is there a default setting somewhere that changes the theme?

ThreeGuysPhotography · September 12, 2013

Add a CSS block to that page and put this in there:

.sm-page {
background-color: #FFF;
color: #000;
}

You can change the colors to your liking

I'd like to make ONE gallery have different color settings

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