Sign-in window for guests

[DeeRich]

I have found that the majority of guests don't sign the Guestbook--even with a reminder on every gallery; I have even changed "gallery comments" to read "Guestbook". Is there a way, for example—that a welcome message with a window for typing one’s name could be added, with a message something like: “Welcome…please type your name, then click “Submit” to enter the site….” (or leave it to the site owner to create their own message). My site does require a password which they would then need to type—either before or after the “Welcome…please type your name…..” message. A record of all these names would be kept on a log--sort of like stats are logged and kept.

Love the new changes!

Thank you!


DeeRich
emaildr@hotmail.com

[Andy]

I have found that the majority of guests don't sign the Guestbook--even with a reminder on every gallery; I have even changed "gallery comments" to read "Guestbook". Is there a way, for example—that a welcome message with a window for typing one’s name could be added, with a message something like: “Welcome…please type your name, then click “Submit” to enter the site….” (or leave it to the site owner to create their own message). My site does require a password which they would then need to type—either before or after the “Welcome…please type your name…..” message. A record of all these names would be kept on a log--sort of like stats are logged and kept.

Love the new changes!

Thank you!


DeeRich
emaildr@hotmail.com



Such things are doable, with some form-type stuff that you'd have to host on a non-SmugMug site. But honestly, most folks would blow it off and not even bother, looking for photos elsewhere...

I wouldn't do it on a bet.

[DeeRich]

Such things are doable, with some form-type stuff that you'd have to host on a non-SmugMug site. But honestly, most folks would blow it off and not even bother, looking for photos elsewhere...

I wouldn't do it on a bet.


Thanks, but boo hoo!
Since my site is "locked", only family and friends visit; the site actually features the newest member in the family who is now two (my great-nephew). Everyone LOVES looking at this great little guy, and they email me wonderful stuff, but don't sign the guestbook (will see what my psychologist friend has to say about this.....)

[Andy]

Thanks, but boo hoo!
Since my site is "locked", only family and friends visit; the site actually features the newest member in the family who is now two (my great-nephew). Everyone LOVES looking at this great little guy, and they email me wonderful stuff, but don't sign the guestbook (will see what my psychologist friend has to say about this.....)
Oh. Then hit the family members over the head :D

[DeeRich]

Oh. Then hit the family members over the head :D

Love it! Forget the psychologist - I'll do as you suggest!

I do have another issue: Please look at www.oursite.smugmug.com (http://www.oursite.smugmug.com) and tell me what to do to correct the "this site is password protected......" from being off-center the way it is.

Thank you!

[Allen]

Love it! Forget the psychologist - I'll do as you suggest!

I do have another issue: Please look at www.oursite.smugmug.com (http://www.oursite.smugmug.com) and tell me what to do to correct the "this site is password protected......" from being off-center the way it is.

Thank you!
:scratch The password box looks just like mine does all left justified.

Try this, don't know if it's what you want or if it even really works on all the
password entry pages.

Add this to your CSS

.userPassword#content {
text-align:center;
}

.userPassword .formInput {
margin-left: 200px;
}

.userPassword .inputText {
margin-left: -190px;
}

body .passwordPage {
margin-top: 40px !important;}

Holler back with any questions.

[DeeRich]

:scratch The password box looks just like mine does all left justified.

Try this, don't know if it's what you want or if it even really works on all the
password entry pages.

Add this to your CSS

.userPassword#content {
text-align:center;
}

.userPassword .formInput {
margin-left: 200px;
}

.userPassword .inputText {
margin-left: -190px;
}

body .passwordPage {
margin-top: 40px !important;}

Holler back with any questions.


Al, thanks so much!

With your help I was able to center everything on the page horizontally, and it looks SO much better than the defaulted left align.

However, I still can't get all the text in the beige box centered vertically, i.e., everything from "this site is password protected...." down through "submit". I worked quite awhile and got it better, but it still doesn't look good. It seems there are three things to work with in vertically centering. The first four are from you which made it center beautifully; I added the last two, not knowing what I was doing, but it did help with the horizontal centering:

.userPassword#content {
text-align:center;
}

.userPassword .formInput {
margin-left: 200px;
}

.userPassword .inputText {
margin-left: -190px;
}

body .passwordPage {
margin-top: -15px !important;}


.userPassword .formInput {
margin-top: -15px;
}

.userPassword .inputText {
margin-top: 5px;
}

Any further help would be greatly appreciated.

DeeRich

[Allen]

Al, thanks so much!

With your help I was able to center everything on the page horizontally, and it looks SO much better than the defaulted left align.

However, I still can't get all the text in the beige box centered vertically, i.e., everything from "this site is password protected...." down through "submit". I worked quite awhile and got it better, but it still doesn't look good. It seems there are three things to work with in vertically centering. The first four are from you which made it center beautifully; I added the last two, not knowing what I was doing, but it did help with the horizontal centering:

.userPassword#content {
text-align:center;
}

.userPassword .formInput {
margin-left: 200px;
}

.userPassword .inputText {
margin-left: -190px;
}

body .passwordPage {
margin-top: -15px !important;}


.userPassword .formInput {
margin-top: -15px;
}

.userPassword .inputText {
margin-top: 5px;
}

Any further help would be greatly appreciated.

DeeRich
I just played with the elements with Firefox's WebDev extension. If you
don't have it I'd recommend installing it. Links in my siggy.

It all looks fairly centered to me. The only thing I can add is this.

.submit_button {
margin-left: -60px;;
}

[DeeRich]

I just played with the elements with Firefox's WebDev extension. If you
don't have it I'd recommend installing it. Links in my siggy.

It all looks fairly centered to me. The only thing I can add is this.

.submit_button {
margin-left: -60px;;
}

Thanks again, Al. Much appreciated!

DeeRich