Creating an html page, and more...

[Teetime]

I'm in the early stage of customizing my smugmug site (http://takeonesolutions.smugmug.com/). This forum has been a great help. Although I've read through a number of threads, there a a few (very basic?) things I am missing. Maybe you can help me through these:

1. I know how to create an html page, but not for my smugmug site. For example, under my "About us" link, I want to just have an html page with text. Where within smugmug do I build (or place) my html? I thought there would be a blank html page I would use as a starter but if there is, I don't find it.

EDIT: Duh, I now see the answer to this first question in the FAQ!

2. On my site I have implemented a slideshow on the home page. But it is off-center. In my CSS code I think I have it centered, but why is it offset to the left?

3. At mlkimages (http://mlkimages.smugmug.com/) they have implemented multiple gallery views (e.g., Galleries, Client Galleries, Family Galleries). I would like to do this too. I assume the way to approach this is to clone the home page three times, and then use code to control what displays on each. Is it possible through code to use categories on one, and galleries on another?

Thanks for your help!

Jerry

[jfriend]

Add the missing close brace here in your CSS customization to fix a CSS error and your slideshow will center:

#bioBox .photo {display: none;}

The easiest way to have links to "Client Galleries" and "Family Galleries" is to just make those categories, put the galleries in those categories and link to the categories from your navbar. No need to make further copies of the homepage.

[Teetime]

John, thanks for the "}" catch.

Let me be sure I understand your approach to multiple galleries. For the "Client Galleries" (which will be passworded), I would upload each client job to a unique gallery, and assign it to the "client" category. Then I could display every client gallery by linking to galleries in category "client" - correct?

Under "Portfolio" I will eventually want to have photo galleries AND video galleries. I'm thinking the best way to do that is to have photography and video submenus under the Portfolio menu, and use the same category approach as above (e.g., "PortfolioPhoto" and "PortfolioVideo"). Does this sound correct?

Finally, I may choose to embed my videos from YouTube rather than hosting them on smugmug. If I do, I assume the video gallery will have to be html, but can be made to look like the smugmug photo gallery. I would appreciate any tips on the best way to do this.

Thanks very much for your insights.

Jerry

Add the missing close brace here in your CSS customization to fix a CSS error and your slideshow will center:

#bioBox .photo {display: none;}

The easiest way to have links to "Client Galleries" and "Family Galleries" is to just make those categories, put the galleries in those categories and link to the categories from your navbar. No need to make further copies of the homepage.

[jfriend]

John, thanks for the "}" catch.

Let me be sure I understand your approach to multiple galleries. For the "Client Galleries" (which will be passworded), I would upload each client job to a unique gallery, and assign it to the "client" category. Then I could display every client gallery by linking to galleries in category "client" - correct?

Yes.

Under "Portfolio" I will eventually want to have photo galleries AND video galleries. I'm thinking the best way to do that is to have photography and video submenus under the Portfolio menu, and use the same category approach as above (e.g., "PortfolioPhoto" and "PortfolioVideo"). Does this sound correct? Generally if you only have two items in a menu, it's better to not have the menu and just move the two items to the top level. But, if you want the menu, this is how you would do it. You can link to anything from the navbar, categories, sub-categories, individual galleries - anything that has a URL.

Finally, I may choose to embed my videos from YouTube rather than hosting them on smugmug. If I do, I assume the video gallery will have to be html, but can be made to look like the smugmug photo gallery. I would appreciate any tips on the best way to do this.

Thanks very much for your insights.

Jerry
Since you can put any HTML in an HTML gallery, I'm sure you can do this, but I'm really not the right one to help with HTML only galleries that look like Smugmug. If you search for "html galleries" here on dgrin, you should find some discussion of it.