Categories sub-page

[PBolchover]

Smugmug, in their wisdom, have realised that there are too many cool features to fit on a single homepage, and have given us all the ability to turn homepage features on and off.

For most of the features, even if they are turned off, it is possible to direct viewers to a suitable sub-page to get a similar view. For example,
http://pbolchover.smugmug.com/keyword/
shows my photo keywords, while
http://pbolchover.smugmug.com/popular/
shows the popular photos. There's even a URL that will take people to the smugmaps facility.

All users have the ability to hide the categories / galleries from their front page. It would be extremely useful for there to be a similar sub-page showing the category view. That means that, even if the category
section were disabled from the front page, going to
http://pbolchover.smugmug.com/categories/
would still give a category view. On a similar vein, perhaps the following would also be useful
http://pbolchover.smugmug.com/galleries/
http://pbolchover.smugmug.com/featured/ [ie featured galleries]

I know that there are ways around this, but they typically involve either hacking around with a gallery to get a similar view (which requires the user to be a Power User or Pro), or using a category as the "top level" and sub-categories as the "categories" (giving no equivalent to a current sub-gallery).

Paul

[colourbox]

I would also like to be able to do this. I was hoping to simplify my front page by having links to separate pages for browsing by keywords, categories, and the world map, but it doesn't look like the last two are possible right now.

[Mike Lane]

This would indeed make things simpler for customization's sake. However, you can get the same effect by a smidge of javascript. All it would take would be for you to change the display values of certain elements upon a mouse click. I bet you could even find out how to do it with a short google search.

[onethumb]

Originally Posted by PBolchover

Smugmug, in their wisdom, have realised that there are too many cool features to fit on a single homepage, and have given us all the ability to turn homepage features on and off.

For most of the features, even if they are turned off, it is possible to direct viewers to a suitable sub-page to get a similar view. For example,
http://pbolchover.smugmug.com/keyword/
shows my photo keywords, while
http://pbolchover.smugmug.com/popular/
shows the popular photos. There's even a URL that will take people to the smugmaps facility.

All users have the ability to hide the categories / galleries from their front page. It would be extremely useful for there to be a similar sub-page showing the category view. That means that, even if the category
section were disabled from the front page, going to
http://pbolchover.smugmug.com/categories/
would still give a category view. On a similar vein, perhaps the following would also be useful
http://pbolchover.smugmug.com/galleries/
http://pbolchover.smugmug.com/featured/ [ie featured galleries]

I know that there are ways around this, but they typically involve either hacking around with a gallery to get a similar view (which requires the user to be a Power User or Pro), or using a category as the "top level" and sub-categories as the "categories" (giving no equivalent to a current sub-gallery).

Paul

This is a good idea, and is in complete accordance with the way we tend to build the site at SmugMug.

I'll let it percolate in my mind a bit, but it doesn't sound unreasonable. :)

Don

[devbobo]

Paul,

You have inadvertently given me a really good idea along the lines of vanity urls.

Here's the deal...

if you make up a smugmug address that is not going to point to any category, for example http://introversion.smugmug.com/idea/

When you go to this link, it displays my homepage like going to http://introversion.smugmug.com

So all you need to do, is write a javascript function that determines when one or the another url is displayed and sets a className...this class could for example hide all the stuff on the homepage, while the other gives the default view.

This way, you get the best of both worlds...you can have a landing page with slideshow, etc...and fully featured categories/sub-categories.

Does that make sense ?

I will code up an example on my page when I get a chance.

Cheers,

David

[devbobo]

here's the sample...

Normal address..
http://introversion.smugmug.com

Galleries address...
http://introversion.smugmug.com/galleries

All done with a simple javascript function and some css.


Footer code (remove the *'s):

<*script*>
if (hasPath("galleries"))
  YD.addClass(document.body, "galleries");
<*/script*>

javascript block:

function hasPath(sPath)
{
  re = new RegExp("\/" + sPath + "(\/|$)");
  return re.test(window.location)
}

css block:

.homepage #featuredBox {display:none;}
.galleries #categoriesBox {display:block !important;}

Cheers,

David

Edit: There is new code for this here in The Gallery Page" sections.

[brandofamily]

What is your favorite food/ beverage and how do I ge it to you....
I guess you really do think in JS...
I've been hoping for something just like this as a default for my "galleries" link....

[devbobo]

Originally Posted by brandofamily

What is your favorite food/ beverage and how do I ge it to you....
I guess you really do think in JS...
I've been hoping for something just like this as a default for my "galleries" link....

check out my site now, I have a working nav bar as well.

David

[brandofamily]

Any way to get it to hide my slide show in the "featured" view?

[devbobo]

Originally Posted by brandofamily

Any way to get it to hide my slide show in the "featured" view?

yes, i plan on doing that on my own page....can you wait until tomorrow ?