rytontym
Jun-13-2008, 08:29 PM
Hi all,
I've been using SmugMug for almost a year, and it's been great so far. Until recently, I concentrated mostly on uploading pics. Now, I'm customizing the site so that it's as cool as the photos.
My question: Is there a way to make the picture for each category on my Homepage be a specific picture that I choose?
The problem I've encountered is that the thumbnails that appear on the Homepage (they show pictures from galleries in each category) seem to cycle randomly through the pics in the galleries. Often, when I visit my homepage, the pictures that appear are not the pictures I'd most like to have my visitors see. Also, most of my galleries are locked, which means that, for some categories, the image is SmugMug's lock symbol.
I have found a workaround, but it's clumsy: I create a single-picture, unlocked gallery (I usually name it "gallery placeholder") for each category and then lock all of the other galleries in that category. As a result, the category on the homepage has only one picture to display; it's the same every time.
Like I said, this is clumsy. And it doesn't allow me to select a pic to replace the locked symbols on the galleries inside the categories. I don't want to open all of my pictures up to the public, but I'm OK with each gallery (including the locked ones) having a single picture so that my visitors aren't basing their decision (on whether to enter the gallery) solely on my text description. Are there features I don't know about that could help me with this?
I've been using SmugMug for almost a year, and it's been great so far. Until recently, I concentrated mostly on uploading pics. Now, I'm customizing the site so that it's as cool as the photos.
My question: Is there a way to make the picture for each category on my Homepage be a specific picture that I choose?
The problem I've encountered is that the thumbnails that appear on the Homepage (they show pictures from galleries in each category) seem to cycle randomly through the pics in the galleries. Often, when I visit my homepage, the pictures that appear are not the pictures I'd most like to have my visitors see. Also, most of my galleries are locked, which means that, for some categories, the image is SmugMug's lock symbol.
I have found a workaround, but it's clumsy: I create a single-picture, unlocked gallery (I usually name it "gallery placeholder") for each category and then lock all of the other galleries in that category. As a result, the category on the homepage has only one picture to display; it's the same every time.
Like I said, this is clumsy. And it doesn't allow me to select a pic to replace the locked symbols on the galleries inside the categories. I don't want to open all of my pictures up to the public, but I'm OK with each gallery (including the locked ones) having a single picture so that my visitors aren't basing their decision (on whether to enter the gallery) solely on my text description. Are there features I don't know about that could help me with this?