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saurora
Apr-20-2007, 04:06 PM
I'm in the process of deciding how to use my Navbar efficiently and organizing my galleries. I have a Pro account. I know I can set up a link on the navbar for family or personal galleries, and I can keep the family galleries private with a password. My goal is to have a more professional looking site, and I'd prefer not to advertise that I keep both on one site. Is there another way to "hide" my personal galleries where my family can access them, but others don't see them? When I look around, I'm not seeing too many personal galleries on Pro sites. Do they just have more than one account???? I haven't registered for a domain yet, is there some way of setting up another portal or something (I really don't know what I'm talking about here....) for my family to access hidden galleries? What do you do????? Thanks for your input. :saurora
Allen
Apr-20-2007, 04:26 PM
I'm in the process of deciding how to use my Navbar efficiently and organizing my galleries. I have a Pro account. I know I can set up a link on the navbar for family or personal galleries, and I can keep the family galleries private with a password. My goal is to have a more professional looking site, and I'd prefer not to advertise that I keep both on one site. Is there another way to "hide" my personal galleries where my family can access them, but others don't see them? When I look around, I'm not seeing too many personal galleries on Pro sites. Do they just have more than one account???? I haven't registered for a domain yet, is there some way of setting up another portal or something (I really don't know what I'm talking about here....) for my family to access hidden galleries? What do you do????? Thanks for your input. :saurora Looks like you have all your family galleries in the family category so you
can create a hidden link on your page linking the family category.
This will add a small invisible link in the upper left of the page which will
show when hovered. Just tell your family to hover there and they'll see it.:D
Add this to the top of your header code.
<!-- ------------ hiddenMenu ------------ -->
<div id="hiddenMenu" style="display: none;">
<ul>
<li> <a href="/Family">F</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
Add this to your CSS.
/* ====== hiddenMenu ======== */
#hiddenMenu {display:block !important;
position:absolute;
z-index:99;
top: 5px;
left: 0px;
}
#hiddenMenu ul {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
list-style-type: none;
}
#hiddenMenu ul li a {
text-decoration: none;
padding: .2em 1em;
color: #C41E59;
background: none;
}
#hiddenMenu ul li a:hover {
color: #fff;
background: none;
}
There is a hack to not show a category on the homepage/galleries page.
See this thread (http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?p=532436&highlight=category+hide#post532436).
Holler back if you have any questions.
photogmomma
Apr-22-2007, 09:45 AM
When I decided to try to go pro, I ended up just getting a second account. That has made my life SO much easier! And I can go to town on my Pro site however I want and I can not stress so much on my private, password protected site. I have almost 8000 photos on my personal site and over 3000 on my pro site and organizing all of them just got to be a nightmare. Especially trying to give family and friends access while restricting the rest of the world. Bah!
Now having two accounts, my life is much easier. I do have a Power account for my family, but if you're tight on money, a basic account will always do just fine!
The biggest pains - having to upload photos to two different sites and logging in and out a bit too much. Normally, I'd just use IE for one account and FireFox for the other, but FF won't run. Grrrr.... I also use StarExplorer to quickly login and upload to both accounts. Much easier than logging in with SM and doing everything.
I do wish there was a way to "hook" the accounts together, but there isn't... Bummer. But it's still worth it!
Just my 2¢ worth! HTH!
Andi
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