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tmharter
Feb-22-2008, 09:50 PM
I would like to start working on organizing my site and need some help. I am overwhelmed by all the information and can not even begin to figure out how to start this.

Here is my general plan.

On the First Page or Home Page, I would like two links. One leading to Personal photos and one to Public photos. I would like the link to be in the form of an image at first, maybe move to a slideshow after I figure some of this out.

So, the home page would be two images. One image you click to go to personal, the other image you would click to go to public.


For the second level of pages I would then want Categories to come up. So when you click on Personal, you now get a Category view with items such as events, family, friends, places. These would be further subdivided into subcategories and then into galleries. At least I think this is how it works. I am getting very confused with this Category, sub category and gallery stuff.
Allen
Feb-23-2008, 10:04 PM
I would like to start working on organizing my site and need some help. I am overwhelmed by all the information and can not even begin to figure out how to start this.

Here is my general plan.

On the First Page or Home Page, I would like two links. One leading to Personal photos and one to Public photos. I would like the link to be in the form of an image at first, maybe move to a slideshow after I figure some of this out.

So, the home page would be two images. One image you click to go to personal, the other image you would click to go to public.


For the second level of pages I would then want Categories to come up. So when you click on Personal, you now get a Category view with items such as events, family, friends, places. These would be further subdivided into subcategories and then into galleries. At least I think this is how it works. I am getting very confused with this Category, sub category and gallery stuff.
Think we can get you what you want. You could add the two linkable
photos to your bio and even have some text in there also. The two photos
could each even be a slideshow.

This is very rough example.
<html>
<div id="myBioText">blab blab</div>
<div id="bioPhoto1">
<a href="/publicLink"><img src="/photos/123456_vhtg-S.jpg" /></a>
</div>
<div id="bioPhoto2">
<a href="/privateLink"><img src="/photos/123457_vhtg-S.jpg" /></a>
</div>
</html>

Then add some CSS to position and format the div's.


What I would do so you could take advantage of the three levels is link
each homepage photo to a landing page. I've created this example page (http://allen-steve.smugmug.com/gallery/3539056)
where it's a landing page and each thumb/photo could be a category or
gallery link. This would allow you to create many public and private
categories rather then just linking each photo to a category. This make any sense? The landing page is just an html type gallery with a bunch of links.

Holler back if you need any help. ... and a link to our site would be helpful.

Edit: ... and hi from Bridgeton :wave