Phase 3 - New homepages, cat/subcat, communities, etc

[onethumb]

Ok, so Phase 3 is in heavy testing and should be done tonight. It includes the new CSS stuff on homepages, category pages, subcategory pages, your control panel, and community pages.

JT has posted more CSS details for your perusal. If you've already customized the new gallery styles (Phase 2), your site will probably just pick up the new stuff and work.

Here's a preview image (click to see Original):



Now, the next question is: when should we release it? We could probably do it tonight, but maybe you all would like some more time? :)

I think good timeframes are Thursday (tonight), Friday, Saturday, Sunday, or Monday. I'm putting a poll on this thread so you can vote.

Any questions? Comments?

Don

[onethumb]

Originally Posted by onethumb

Any questions? Comments?

Let me get this straight ... After 4 hours and hundreds of views, there are NO questions? NO comments?

We nailed it? It's perfect?

Don

[Matthew Saville]

Originally Posted by onethumb

Let me get this straight ... After 4 hours and hundreds of views, there are NO questions? NO comments?

We nailed it? It's perfect?

Don

SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEETTTTT!
[edit] okay I guess that wasn't all that helpful, except to say that yes Don, you definitely just made a LOT of people very happy. When I saw "edit" next to "your bio" I almost cried with joy. (well you get the point)

However CSS seems to have changed a tad. I absolutely LOVE the new keywords look, but the title is still the old green and not the new #379D49 that I have chosen to use instead. I'm sure that's just a line of CSS though. And also, having the whole control panel also be this very controversial color might be a mistake as well, I liked the control panel all gray I think. But all in all, I'm absolutely digging everything. Way to go!

[{JT}]

well, if you notice that keywords title is a link too, so:
a.title {
color: red;
}

Originally Posted by Matthew Saville

SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEETTTTT!
[edit] okay I guess that wasn't all that helpful, except to say that yes Don, you definitely just made a LOT of people very happy. When I saw "edit" next to "your bio" I almost cried with joy. (well you get the point)

However CSS seems to have changed a tad. I absolutely LOVE the new keywords look, but the title is still the old green and not the new #379D49 that I have chosen to use instead. I'm sure that's just a line of CSS though. And also, having the whole control panel also be this very controvercial color might be a mistake as well, I liked the control panel all gray I think. But all in all, I'm absolutely digging everything. Way to go!

[Matthew Saville]

Originally Posted by {JT}

well, if you notice that keywords title is a link too, so:
a.title {
color: red;
}

Got it!

Now, for the ULTIMATE in homepage customization, I'd LOVE to be able to switch from "Ti" thumbs to "Th" thumbs! Wouldn't THAT be pure heaven?

Thanks guys, you continue to rock. I don't know how you do it.

-Matt-

[edit]

#caption {text-align: center;} ...does not seem to work for me anymore...

[yvonne]

Hi.. I'm sure you have lots of good reasons why everything is changing, but for someone that does not understand html in the slightest, this is living hell.

I don't like the new look. At all. I'd like it to look exactly like it looked before. I understand that I can customise these things, but I have no idea how. Nor do I have the time to learn how to do html from scratch... I have 3 weddings and aobut 4000 images to edit this week alone... this really wasn't part of my time-table.

What on earth can I do to make it look like before, i.e. no green script, gallery photos back in the same place where they were before (they seem to be much wider spaced now) and when i go into subgalleries, they are all lined up in a row now, squooshed to the left hand side, no margin, nothing. I'd like them to be nice and centred again, like they were before. It all looks really really messy.

I have to send out links to galleries by tomorrow, and it looks so wrong right now, I can't possibly show this to my clients.

Please help.

Yvonne.

[Andy]

wow - it looks really good and hey - lookie, now the text wraps around the bio photo and i just totally dig the new ajax editing boxes. tres cool don.

wtg guys, thanks!

[Techman1]

I just voted, but it's too late....it's already been implemented or so it seems.

Some things that were changed this past week appear to have come back (the lines & not centered boxes), so I'll be checking my code and changing them again this morning.

I've only been here a few weeks and I'm hoping this isn't the norm (I need to work on other things and not be changing HTML code every other week). Having said that, I am pleased with all the customization that is allowed here - so thank you for the flexibility!

Fred

[Baldy]

Originally Posted by yvonne

Hi.. I'm sure you have lots of good reasons why everything is changing, but for someone that does not understand html in the slightest, this is living hell.

Hi Yvonne,

Ouch, I'm really sorry we put you in this position. This time we did our best to provide good documentation with examples of the most common things people want to do available by cut-and-paste:

http://www.smugmug.com/help/custom-colors

This enormously painful process has an even more enormous benefit, which is to make your site extremely customizable. We couldn't accomplish it without some disruption, but hopefully this is the last of it.

All the best,
Baldy

[DavidTO]

You left out the "I don't care when you do it" option...