Display a category on a galleries page?

[Jessec]

Hi. I would like to have a very simple galleries page that uses galleries instead of categories so people only have to click once to see all the photos in that gallery. However, I also want to have a single thumbnail on my galleries page that says"Weddings" and when clicked will take the user to all the password protected wedding galleries. This seems like it should be easy to do but I can't figure it out. Does anyone know how this can be done? :scratch

[Allen]

Hi. I would like to have a very simple galleries page that uses galleries instead of categories so people only have to click once to see all the photos in that gallery. However, I also want to have a single thumbnail on my galleries page that says"Weddings" and when clicked will take the user to all the password protected wedding galleries. This seems like it should be easy to do but I can't figure it out. Does anyone know how this can be done? :scratch See if this will work.

Add below your nav html in your header.

<div id="weddingLink">
<a href="http://www.jessecathcart.com/Weddings">
My<br>Wedding<br>Galleries
</a>
</div>


Add this to your CSS.

.homepage #weddingLink,
#weddingLink {display: none;}

.galleries #weddingLink {
display: block;
position: relative;
margin: 0 auto;
top: 100px;
width: 90px;
height: 70px;
border: 4px ridge #ccc;
text-align: center;
padding: 10px;
}

#weddingLink a {
font-family: Comic Sans MS, verdana;
font-size: 120%;
text-decoration: none;
color: #ccc;
}

#weddingLink a:hover {
color: #fff;
}

[Jessec]

See if this will work.

Add below your nav html in your header.

<div id="weddingLink">
<a href="http://www.jessecathcart.com/Weddings">
My<br>Wedding<br>Galleries
</a>
</div>


Add this to your CSS.

.homepage #weddingLink,
#weddingLink {display: none;}

.galleries #weddingLink {
display: block;
position: relative;
margin: 0 auto;
top: 100px;
width: 90px;
height: 70px;
border: 4px ridge #ccc;
text-align: center;
padding: 10px;
}

#weddingLink a {
font-family: Comic Sans MS, verdana;
font-size: 120%;
text-decoration: none;
color: #ccc;
}

#weddingLink a:hover {
color: #fff;
}


Thanks for trying to help but all this does is place an icon that when clicked takes me to the smugmug create a gallery interface (http://www.jessecathcart.com/gallery/create.mg). Then when I create the gallery it just shows up like any other gallery I create. I just want a single thumbnail to link to a page that contains my wedding galleries. I guess I would even settle for a Link in my navbar. It seems that we should be able to select if a thumbnail links to a page displaying galleries of if it links to a page that displays photos. Why does it have to be either "categories" or "galleries" display entirely? Why can't we have both?

Thanks anyway. If you think of anything else I'd be happy to try it out.

[Jessec]

See if this will work.

Add below your nav html in your header.

<div id="weddingLink">
<a href="http://www.jessecathcart.com/Weddings">
My<br>Wedding<br>Galleries
</a>
</div>


Add this to your CSS.

.homepage #weddingLink,
#weddingLink {display: none;}

.galleries #weddingLink {
display: block;
position: relative;
margin: 0 auto;
top: 100px;
width: 90px;
height: 70px;
border: 4px ridge #ccc;
text-align: center;
padding: 10px;
}

#weddingLink a {
font-family: Comic Sans MS, verdana;
font-size: 120%;
text-decoration: none;
color: #ccc;
}

#weddingLink a:hover {
color: #fff;
}


Thanks for trying to help but all this does is place an icon that when clicked takes me to the smugmug create a gallery interface (http://www.jessecathcart.com/gallery/create.mg). Then when I create the gallery it just shows up like any other gallery I create. I just want a single thumbnail to link to a page that contains my wedding galleries. I guess I would even settle for a Link in my navbar. It seems that we should be able to select if a thumbnail links to a page displaying galleries of if it links to a page that displays photos. Why does it have to be either "categories" or "galleries" display entirely? Why can't we have both? This is frustrating.:dunno

Thanks anyway. If you think of anything else I'd be happy to try it out.:D

[Allen]

Thanks for trying to help but all this does is place an icon that when clicked takes me to the smugmug create a gallery interface (http://www.jessecathcart.com/gallery/create.mg) (http://www.jessecathcart.com/gallery/create.mg%29). Then when I create the gallery it just shows up like any other gallery I create. I just want a single thumbnail to link to a page that contains my wedding galleries. I guess I would even settle for a Link in my navbar. It seems that we should be able to select if a thumbnail links to a page displaying galleries of if it links to a page that displays photos. Why does it have to be either "categories" or "galleries" display entirely? Why can't we have both? This is frustrating.:dunno

Thanks anyway. If you think of anything else I'd be happy to try it out.:D
The link I put in there was to a category named Weddings. I assumed you
would put all your weddings galleries in that category.

[Jessec]

The link I put in there was to a category named Weddings. I assumed you
would put all your weddings galleries in that category.

How do I place galleries within this category once it is created?:scratch

Sorry. I'm missing something.

[Allen]

How do I place galleries within this category once it is created?:scratch

Sorry. I'm missing something.
Under customize gallery in each gallery at the top is a dropdown that you pick the categroy.
Also when you create a new gallery it asks for a category.

[Jessec]

Under customize gallery in each gallery at the top is a dropdown that you pick the categroy.
Also when you create a new gallery it asks for a category.

Sorry. I have not had any luck with your solution yet. It could just be me at this point. I will keep trying. In the meantime do you think it would be possible to modify the "duplicate homepage hack" to create a third homepage that I could just put all my wedding galleries on? This would solve my problems. I could just have a link that says "wedding clients" and then have a separate page with all my clients password protected galleries. This way I would not have to clutter up my main galleries page. I'm trying really hard to make my site super clean and easy to use. I really don't want to subject people to needless clutter.

[Allen]

Sorry. I have not had any luck with your solution yet. It could just be me at this point. I will keep trying. In the meantime do you think it would be possible to modify the "duplicate homepage hack" to create a third homepage that I could just put all my wedding galleries on? This would solve my problems. I could just have a link that says "wedding clients" and then have a separate page with all my clients password protected galleries. This way I would not have to clutter up my main galleries page. I'm trying really hard to make my site super clean and easy to use. I really don't want to subject people to needless clutter.
You would still need to put all your wedding galleries in the Weddings
category. Take a look here (http://www.smugmug.com/help/upload-photo). You don't need the duplicate homepage because
this link would open the Weddings category page showing the galleries.
http://www.jessecathcart.com/Weddings

[Jessec]

You would still need to put all your wedding galleries in the Weddings
category. Take a look here (http://www.smugmug.com/help/upload-photo). You don't need the duplicate homepage because
this link would open the Weddings category page showing the galleries.
http://www.jessecathcart.com/Weddings

This site has something similar to what I want. If you scroll down it says "Sub-Categories" and then when you click on the image it takes you to a page with password protected galleries. Is this what you are talking about or does the code you gave me do something different?


http://heathercicione.smugmug.com/portraits

[Allen]

This site has something similar to what I want. If you scroll down it says "Sub-Categories" and then when you click on the image it takes you to a page with password protected galleries. Is this what you are talking about or does the code you gave me do something different?


http://heathercicione.smugmug.com/portraits
What you're looking at is her Portrait category page with a bunch of
galleries and the only sub-cat below.

If you put all your wedding galleries under the Wedding category you would
have the same set up. You could create sub-categories under the Weddings
category for further sub-dividing of galleries.

Makin' any sense yet?