Despirate: Adding description to gallery of Keyword Photos

largelylivin · January 16, 2008

I've found ways to do most everything that I wanted except for one thing.
> I've posted this several times on the forums and I'm just not getting
> any answers. I searched several times for forum threads but I either
> cannot find it or what I did find doesn't address my needs.:cry
>
> Here's what I need to do.
> (1) make a keyword reference that will get the photos that are tagged
> with a brand name ex. .../keyword/tiara, which is a boat brand.
> (2) display the resulting photos with an HTML description so that I
> can include a clickable logo to a manufacturers website and clickable
> logos to yacht dealerships of that brand.
> Note that I will know apriori which 'brand name" galleries I want to
> implement so that I can have the pre-canned description ready.
>
> Can you point me to a discussion or an example that will help me?

I know how to make an HTML gallery, put an image.link into the text description, etc. I just don't know how to add a description to a virtual gallery!
>
> Thanks in advance,

pe2smugmug · January 16, 2008

largelylivin wrote:

I've found ways to do most everything that I wanted except for one thing.
> I've posted this several times on the forums and I'm just not getting
> any answers. I searched several times for forum threads but I either
> cannot find it or what I did find doesn't address my needs.:cry
>
> Here's what I need to do.
> (1) make a keyword reference that will get the photos that are tagged
> with a brand name ex. .../keyword/tiara, which is a boat brand.
> (2) display the resulting photos with an HTML description so that I
> can include a clickable logo to a manufacturers website and clickable
> logos to yacht dealerships of that brand.
> Note that I will know apriori which 'brand name" galleries I want to
> implement so that I can have the pre-canned description ready.
>
> Can you point me to a discussion or an example that will help me?

I know how to make an HTML gallery, put an image.link into the text description, etc. I just don't know how to add a description to a virtual gallery!
>
> Thanks in advance,

You lost me on what you are trying to do.
A "virtual gallery" in the style of /keywords/tiara will simply collect all the photos with that tag. I don't know if there is a way to add a description for that type of page.
In thinking about it, you could probably write up a little javascript that looked at the breadcrumb region and then do a little search for "keyword > tiara" then replace that with some "keyword > tiara " + your_html.

What I might suggest differently, is to put the image and link to your manufacturer website in the "caption" for each image. It wouldn't be hard to write a little program that went through your images, and if it found a keyword for 'tiara', add your html to the caption. Then your "virtual gallery" would show the link at the bottom of each image, which the caption normally goes.

Depending upon your approach, you might be better off looking for help in the customization forum...

-Evan

Despirate: Adding description to gallery of Keyword Photos

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