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JamesVernacotola
Apr-15-2008, 08:35 AM
First off, I want to thank all of the helpful people out here on the customization forum. I'm 11 days into my trial period, and with your help I've been able to add a custom banner, a navbar, a guestbook, 2 html only pages, Google analytics and some other minor stuff...as well as organize and upload 636 full res photos. I love this site.

I've managed to do all this without needing to ask any questions, but now as I'm wrapping up my customization for a while, I have a few questions. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks very much in advance.

For reference, my page is jimmyv99.smugmug.com (http://jimmyv99.smugmug.com/)

Questions:

1. When I added the custom banner, it changed the default size of the photo when I view galleries in the Smugmug style. I have access to 4 computers and I tested it on all of them. Here's what I got:a. 24in Widescreen, 1360x768: 7 columns of thumbs and SMALL photo
b. 12in Widescreen, 1280x720: 7 columns of thumbs and SMALL photo
c. 15in Fullscreen, 1024x768: 4 columns of thumbs and SMALL photo
d. 19in Fullscreen, 1024x768: 3 columns of thumbs and MEDIUM photo

The question is: Is there a way to force the galleries to show *at least* MEDIUM size photos in Smugmug style?


2. Is there a way to put a description next to each Category on the home page, like there is on each Gallery?

3. Is there a way to put a photo count next to each Gallery, like there is on each Category?


4. I started commenting my code after adding a few things because it was getting a little confusing. I have a snippet of code in my CSS section from before I was commenting and I have no idea what it does. Can anyone tell me what it is, so I can comment accordingly? Here it is:.find #homepage,
#content.userKeywords,
#header_wrapper, #footer_wrapper, #cobrand_footer,
#category, #header,
#smugmug, .smugmug #header, .smugmug #footer {
margin-left: 15px;
margin-right: 15px;
min-width: 755px;
width: auto;
_width: expression(document.documentElement.clientWidth < 790?
"760px" : "auto");
}


5. How can I 'comment' the code in the header section in customization? When I use the /*.........*/ code for comments, it shows up on the actual page, like this: /*************************************//* START Nav-Bar Code *//*************************************/


6. This one is probably a stretch, but I figure I'll ask. Is there a way to replace a photo name with a different photo? For example, say i have a photo called "photos/277825201_h2om3", and I call it on a web page. I would like to change the photo on the web page without changing the html; so essentially I would be giving that name to a different photo. Can this be done?

7. What's the meaning of life?

That last question is only partially a joke. :) I figure that since you all seem to know so much, that maybe I could knock that one out as well LOL.

Thanks again for any help that you might be able to give me. If you require any more information, please let me know.

Jimmy

Allen
Apr-15-2008, 09:22 AM
First off, I want to thank all of the helpful people out here on the customization forum. I'm 11 days into my trial period, and with your help I've been able to add a custom banner, a navbar, a guestbook, 2 html only pages, Google analytics and some other minor stuff...as well as organize and upload 636 full res photos. I love this site.

I've managed to do all this without needing to ask any questions, but now as I'm wrapping up my customization for a while, I have a few questions. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks very much in advance.

For reference, my page is jimmyv99.smugmug.com (http://jimmyv99.smugmug.com/)

Questions:

1. When I added the custom banner, it changed the default size of the photo when I view galleries in the Smugmug style. I have access to 4 computers and I tested it on all of them. Here's what I got:a. 24in Widescreen, 1360x768: 7 columns of thumbs and SMALL photo
b. 12in Widescreen, 1280x720: 7 columns of thumbs and SMALL photo
c. 15in Fullscreen, 1024x768: 4 columns of thumbs and SMALL photo
d. 19in Fullscreen, 1024x768: 3 columns of thumbs and MEDIUM photo
The question is: Is there a way to force the galleries to show *at least* MEDIUM size photos in Smugmug style?
Welcome to Dgrin :wave

I don't understand why you're only getting the small on some of those monitors. The vertical window height is calculated in so any tools bars,etc. reducing that space is bad.
2. Is there a way to put a description next to each Category on the home page, like there is on each Gallery?
There is a hack for adding descriptions to categories, might search for it.
Edit: See this thread http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?p=241923
3. Is there a way to put a photo count next to each Gallery, like there is on each Category?
Don't know of a way.
4. I started commenting my code after adding a few things because it was getting a little confusing. I have a snippet of code in my CSS section from before I was commenting and I have no idea what it does. Can anyone tell me what it is, so I can comment accordingly? Here it is:.find #homepage,
#content.userKeywords,
#header_wrapper, #footer_wrapper, #cobrand_footer,
#category, #header,
#smugmug, .smugmug #header, .smugmug #footer {
margin-left: 15px;
margin-right: 15px;
min-width: 755px;
width: auto;
_width: expression(document.documentElement.clientWidth < 790?
"760px" : "auto");
}
I think this is what Andy said to make these pages stretchy.
5. How can I 'comment' the code in the header section in customization? When I use the /*.........*/ code for comments, it shows up on the actual page, like this: /*************************************//* START Nav-Bar Code *//*************************************/

In your html use these comment tags.
<!-- comment in here -->
6. This one is probably a stretch, but I figure I'll ask. Is there a way to replace a photo name with a different photo? For example, say i have a photo called "photos/277825201_h2om3", and I call it on a web page. I would like to change the photo on the web page without changing the html; so essentially I would be giving that name to a different photo. Can this be done?
Only if you replace the photo it will keep that assigned photo number, caption and keywords.

7. What's the meaning of life?

That last question is only partially a joke. :) I figure that since you all seem to know so much, that maybe I could knock that one out as well LOL.

Thanks again for any help that you might be able to give me. If you require any more information, please let me know.

Jimmy

JamesVernacotola
Apr-15-2008, 11:18 AM
Thanks very much for your help and your quick response, Allen!

Does anyone else have any ideas for question #1? That one is really driving me crazy.

I've noticed other sites where their banner is as big or bigger than mine and they don't seem to have the same issue.

http://jimmyv99.smugmug.com

Allen
Apr-15-2008, 11:22 AM
Thanks very much for your help and your quick response, Allen!

Does anyone else have any ideas for question #1? That one is really driving me crazy.

I've noticed other sites where their banner is as big or bigger than mine and they don't seem to have the same issue.

http://jimmyv99.smugmug.com
Take a look here (http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=66912) and scroll down to MORE CONTROL FOR HOW STRETCHY PAGES STRETCH

JamesVernacotola
Apr-15-2008, 06:57 PM
Take a look here (http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=66912) and scroll down to MORE CONTROL FOR HOW STRETCHY PAGES STRETCH

Thank you sooooooo much, Allen! That worked perfectly. :clap All 4 of my computers show a medium photo inside the galleries now. I also utilized the "random photo" html that I found in that thread as well!