Static image and html area only

[redhalton]

Hi

I've created a new page on my website and have created a link http://www.oakvillepictureperfect.ca/gallery/6698631_nj6My--so far so good.

Now what I'd like to have on this page is a static image and then a 'html' text box where I'm free to format at will and even include other static images. There will be nothing for sale on this page.

Thanks in advance....

Bob

[jfriend]

It isn't clear to me exactly what your question is. If you want to create an HTML-only page and then just put your own custom HTML in the album description, you can do that like this (http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=112689&highlight=html+gallery) or in the FAQ here (http://www.smugmug.com/help/customize-faq) item #39.

[redhalton]

All I'm trying to accomplish for this page

http://oakvillepictureperfect.smugmug.com/gallery/6712163_74kWm#428550765_L2APS

is not to have the image visible. I don't want to display any images other than images I decide to put in between the 'html' tags and I don't want to sell anything from this page. Once the image is gone, I just want a plain 'html' page where I can input and format at will.

Thanks..

It isn't clear to me exactly what your question is. If you want to create an HTML-only page and then just put your own custom HTML in the album description, you can do that like this (http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=112689&highlight=html+gallery) or in the FAQ here (http://www.smugmug.com/help/customize-faq) item #39.

[jfriend]

All I'm trying to accomplish for this page

http://oakvillepictureperfect.smugmug.com/gallery/6712163_74kWm#428550765_L2APS

is not to have the image visible. I don't want to display any images other than images I decide to put in between the 'html' tags and I don't want to sell anything from this page. Once the image is gone, I just want a plain 'html' page where I can input and format at will.

Thanks..

Delete the image from the gallery so you have no photos in the gallery. Then follow the steps in item #39 in the FAQ I linked above. That FAQ item is specifically for what you are trying to do.

[redhalton]

Thank you...I've deleted this image a number of times always with the unwanted results..check my webpage. When I delete the image in the gallery, it deletes the thumbnail all the way back to my index page..looks very unprofessional.

Lets start at my homepage. How do I put an image to direct my customers to this new 'html' webpage without the image showing up in the new 'html' webpage?

Thanks....



Delete the image from the gallery so you have no photos in the gallery. Then follow the steps in item #39 in the FAQ I linked above. That FAQ item is specifically for what you are trying to do.

[jfriend]

Thank you...I've deleted this image a number of times always with the unwanted results..check my webpage. When I delete the image in the gallery, it deletes the thumbnail all the way back to my index page..looks very unprofessional.

Lets start at my homepage. How do I put an image to direct my customers to this new 'html' webpage without the image showing up in the new 'html' webpage?

Thanks....

I'm not sure I understand what you are saying. If you have an image that you are using somewhere in your web-site, then you should create a gallery for it, call it something like "Site Images", mark the gallery as "Unlisted" and enable external linking. That will make the gallery not show for browsing via your homepage, but make all the images available for use within the customizing of your site. You can then put all images that you use in the creation of your web-site there without having to worry about them showing to your visitors in a gallery.

As for linking to it from the homepage, usually you use something like a navbar link or some custom HTML in the Bio to link to it from the homepage. I would not recommend making it look like a normal gallery on the homepage because that's not what it is. If you want to link to it via an image from the homepage, then put the right image in your Site Images gallery and insert the HTML to make that image and link visible where you want it on the homepage.

[redhalton]

Thanks John for sticking with me through this.

I've never had so much trouble doing such a simple task ;-))

Maybe it's true--I'm as dumb as ditch water!

All I want is a one 'html' page where I can detail a few things for my customers. What I get after I create the category>subcategory is the inability to see this page unless I put an image into it and then I delete the image and I'm stuck with an absolutely ridiculous thread void of any image from my opening page to the new 'html' page.

Whatever happened to a simple link in my navbar easily created to a single simple 'html' page? I do this a hundred times per month in DW, yet I get inside the 'SmugMug' site and everything I've learned in design is thrown out the window.

Follow step #39 and it's like being on a merry-go-round. If I have to hire someone to create one 'html' page for me on the 'Smugmug' site I think it's time I look around for a more user friendly and intuitive website to host my images.

I'm going to give this one more try and if it doesn't become clear--I really have no choice, I'm out of here.

Thanks again.

I'm not sure I understand what you are saying. If you have an image that you are using somewhere in your web-site, then you should create a gallery for it, call it something like "Site Images", mark the gallery as "Unlisted" and enable external linking. That will make the gallery not show for browsing via your homepage, but make all the images available for use within the customizing of your site. You can then put all images that you use in the creation of your web-site there without having to worry about them showing to your visitors in a gallery.

As for linking to it from the homepage, usually you use something like a navbar link or some custom HTML in the Bio to link to it from the homepage. I would not recommend making it look like a normal gallery on the homepage because that's not what it is. If you want to link to it via an image from the homepage, then put the right image in your Site Images gallery and insert the HTML to make that image and link visible where you want it on the homepage.

[Allen]

Thanks John for sticking with me through this.

I've never had so much trouble doing such a simple task ;-))

Maybe it's true--I'm as dumb as ditch water!

All I want is a one 'html' page where I can detail a few things for my customers. What I get after I create the category>subcategory is the inability to see this page unless I put an image into it and then I delete the image and I'm stuck with an absolutely ridiculous thread void of any image from my opening page to the new 'html' page.

Whatever happened to a simple link in my navbar easily created to a single simple 'html' page? I do this a hundred times per month in DW, yet I get inside the 'SmugMug' site and everything I've learned in design is thrown out the window.

Follow step #39 and it's like being on a merry-go-round. If I have to hire someone to create one 'html' page for me on the 'Smugmug' site I think it's time I look around for a more user friendly and intuitive website to host my images.

I'm going to give this one more try and if it doesn't become clear--I really have no choice, I'm out of here.

Thanks again.
Take a look at these and see if it will help. here (http://allen-steve.smugmug.com/gallery/3235336) and here (http://allen-steve.smugmug.com/gallery/3819841)

[jfriend]

Thanks John for sticking with me through this.

I've never had so much trouble doing such a simple task ;-))

Maybe it's true--I'm as dumb as ditch water!

All I want is a one 'html' page where I can detail a few things for my customers. What I get after I create the category>subcategory is the inability to see this page unless I put an image into it and then I delete the image and I'm stuck with an absolutely ridiculous thread void of any image from my opening page to the new 'html' page.

Whatever happened to a simple link in my navbar easily created to a single simple 'html' page? I do this a hundred times per month in DW, yet I get inside the 'SmugMug' site and everything I've learned in design is thrown out the window.

Follow step #39 and it's like being on a merry-go-round. If I have to hire someone to create one 'html' page for me on the 'Smugmug' site I think it's time I look around for a more user friendly and intuitive website to host my images.

I'm going to give this one more try and if it doesn't become clear--I really have no choice, I'm out of here.

Thanks again.

I'm really not sure what to tell you. The basic idea of an HTML only page is to create a regular gallery, put no photos in it, then put your custom HTML into the gallery description field so you can have any HTML you want in the page, then add some custom CSS that hides the extra stuff in the gallery (the "No photos" message, the page navigation, the breadcrumb, etc...). Then, most people don't want the gallery to show in their normal homepage or category view so they mark the HTML only gallery as unlisted and then they link to it directly from their navbar. Allen and I have both given you multiple links to examples for doing this. If you want me to help you further, you're going to have to tell me exactly what step you need help with because I don't know where you're stuck.

[redhalton]

Thanks again....I'm not pissed, just frustrated ;-))

Please go to my website and the problem should be clear.

I've created a link in my navbar to the html page--it works. But I'm still left with this bloody empty image frame on my homepage with a link to another empty image frame with a link to the 'html page'.

All I want is the link in my navbar to take the visitor directly to the 'html' page. I don't want any other links for this single webpage--just one link to one page.

How do I remove all this other stuff?

Cheers!

I'm really not sure what to tell you. The basic idea of an HTML only page is to create a regular gallery, put no photos in it, then put your custom HTML into the gallery description field so you can have any HTML you want in the page, then add some custom CSS that hides the extra stuff in the gallery (the "No photos" message, the page navigation, the breadcrumb, etc...). Then, most people don't want the gallery to show in their normal homepage or category view so they mark the HTML only gallery as unlisted and then they link to it directly from their navbar. Allen and I have both given you multiple links to examples for doing this. If you want me to help you further, you're going to have to tell me exactly what step you need help with because I don't know where you're stuck.

[jfriend]

Thanks again....I'm not pissed, just frustrated ;-))

Please go to my website and the problem should be clear.

I've created a link in my navbar to the html page--it works. But I'm still left with this bloody empty image frame on my homepage with a link to another empty image frame with a link to the 'html page'.

All I want is the link in my navbar to take the visitor directly to the 'html' page. I don't want any other links for this single webpage--just one link to one page.

How do I remove all this other stuff?

Cheers! As I think I've explained several times already, if you mark the HTML gallery as "unlisted" in customize gallery, it and it's category will go away from the homepage for visitors (it will still show for you).

And, if you want the other stuff in the HTML gallery to go away, you just have to hide it with the right CSS which was linked to in my first post in this thread. You can just add this CSS:

.gallery_6718349 .nophotos {display:none;}

and the message "This is a brand new gallery with no photos" will go away.

It looks like you have a good start on the HTML with some intial formatting. In your CSS to format the HTML page, I would recommend that you just use:

.myTitle instead of .gallery_6718349 .myTitle
.myPhoto instead of .gallery_6718349 .myPhoto
.myPhoto img instead of .gallery_6718349 .myPhoto img
.myText instead of .gallery_6718349 .myText

Since these classes are your own classes and they will only exist in places that you control, you don't need to list the individual gallery numbers. Then, if you make other HTML only galleries and use these same classes, it will automatically get the same styling. If you want different styling in a different HTML gallery, you just use a different class name there.

Is there anything else you need?

[redhalton]

Mission Accomplished!

The entire confusion was the fact I didn't understand I was the only one who could see these empty image frames--I finally loaded my webpage in 'Firefox', I wasn't logged in and the empty image frames were gone. I didn't clue into this until your last message and read what you had between the brackets.

(it will still show for you).

Anyway I am very thankful to both you and Allen for your patience and understanding in this very frustrating exercise.

Thanks again
Bob

As I think I've explained several times already, if you mark the HTML gallery as "unlisted" in customize gallery, it and it's category will go away from the homepage for visitors (it will still show for you).

And, if you want the other stuff in the HTML gallery to go away, you just have to hide it with the right CSS which was linked to in my first post in this thread. You can just add this CSS:

.gallery_6718349 .nophotos {display:none;}

and the message "This is a brand new gallery with no photos" will go away.

It looks like you have a good start on the HTML with some intial formatting. In your CSS to format the HTML page, I would recommend that you just use:

.myTitle instead of .gallery_6718349 .myTitle
.myPhoto instead of .gallery_6718349 .myPhoto
.myPhoto img instead of .gallery_6718349 .myPhoto img
.myText instead of .gallery_6718349 .myText

Since these classes are your own classes and they will only exist in places that you control, you don't need to list the individual gallery numbers. Then, if you make other HTML only galleries and use these same classes, it will automatically get the same styling. If you want different styling in a different HTML gallery, you just use a different class name there.

Is there anything else you need?

[jfriend]

Mission Accomplished!

The entire confusion was the fact I didn't understand I was the only one who could see these empty image frames--I finally loaded my webpage in 'Firefox', I wasn't logged in and the empty image frames were gone. I didn't clue into this until your last message and read what you had between the brackets.

(it will still show for you).

Anyway I am very thankful to both you and Allen for your patience and understanding in this very frustrating exercise.

Thanks again
Bob

Glad we got it figured out.

[chrismoore]

EDIT: oops, too late... looks like you got it.
C

Thank you...I've deleted this image a number of times always with the unwanted results..check my webpage. When I delete the image in the gallery, it deletes the thumbnail all the way back to my index page..looks very unprofessional.

Lets start at my homepage. How do I put an image to direct my customers to this new 'html' webpage without the image showing up in the new 'html' webpage?

Thanks....

Maybe I don't completely understand, but if what you want to accomplish is an html only gallery to which you can add a photo, but have that photo appear only on the gallery thumbnail, but not on the page itself, add this to your CSS:

.gallery_XXXXXX .journal_entry {display:none;}

That will hide any photos you add to the gallery, but they will still appear as the "feature" photo on the gallery thumbail, on your homepage, for example.