New Tutorials

[ivar]

Allright guys and girls, have at it, two new tutorials.

1) How to create a navbar
2) How to make (multiple) custom headers on your homepage


Let me know if you find any problems with it, or if i go too fast at some point. Have fun (customizing).

[DavidTO]

They've been added to our tutorial index, in the How-To link in the navbar at the top of dgrin.

Great job, Ivar!

[SteveM]

Originally Posted by ivar

Allright guys and girls, have at it, two new tutorials.

1) How to create a navbar
2) How to make (multiple) custom headers on your homepage


Let me know if you find any problems with it, or if i go too fast at some point. Have fun (customizing).

Very nice, Ivar! I'm sure that'll cut down on the confusion for many many people!

P.S.: One typo in #2:

Copy the URL that shows last in the list. 

At the end you will see the last bit will say ...-L.gif, or ...-L.jpg, or ...-L.png

When pasting the link into the CSS code, change the 'L' to an 'O'.

[savannahga]

Hi, I tried the Navbar but it doesn't have spaces between all the links,
just 3 spaces. I tried the cellspacing & spacing but nothing works.

[justME]

Thank you Ivar. Good tutorial and easy to follow.

I'd like to know how do I place that navbar below my custom banner? I'm not sure I want that but would like to try it if possible.
T.Y.
http://justineolson.smugmug.com/

[Andy]

Originally Posted by justME

Thank you Ivar. Good tutorial and easy to follow.

I'd like to know how do I place that navbar below my custom banner? I'm not sure I want that but would like to try it if possible.
T.Y.
http://justineolson.smugmug.com/

Place the navbar html in your header html section, underneath the banner code. We'll help you style it.

[justME]

Okay. Great I did it and it worked. Perfect.
Thanks yet again.

[natedreger]

i've got my banners built, your tutorial was quite helpful thank you, but I now want the banner to link back to my main page. using the <div> method is there a way to do that?

Originally Posted by ivar

Allright guys and girls, have at it, two new tutorials.

1) How to create a navbar
2) How to make (multiple) custom headers on your homepage


Let me know if you find any problems with it, or if i go too fast at some point. Have fun (customizing).

[ramdisk]

ivar
you are the man! Thank you for all of your help................

[MSMoore]

Howdy. Newbie here. Lots of nice tuts on this forum. Thank you!

Having a problem with custom header. After following the instructions for the custom header tut to the letter using a .png image 750px by 150px, then hitting the update button...then submit button to preview...the top portion of custom header is hidden by what appears to be the top part of the web page. Any help you could provide would be appreciated.

my smugmug page is: bothphoto.smugmug.com

Thank you

msmoore

[Allen]

Originally Posted by MSMoore

Howdy. Newbie here. Lots of nice tuts on this forum. Thank you!

Having a problem with custom header. After following the instructions for the custom header tut to the letter using a .png image 750px by 150px, then hitting the update button...then submit button to preview...the top portion of custom header is hidden by what appears to be the top part of the web page. Any help you could provide would be appreciated.

my smugmug page is: bothphoto.smugmug.com

Thank you

msmoore

Start with this.

div #extraDiv1 {display:none;}
or
.homepage div #extraDiv1 {display:none;}
Al

[Andy]

Originally Posted by Allen

Start with this.

div #extraDiv1 {display:none;}

Al

and this code, goes in your CSS box on your customization page.

welcome to Dgrin!

[MSMoore]

Originally Posted by Andy

and this code, goes in your CSS box on your customization page.

welcome to Dgrin!

Thanks Allen and Andy. I appreciate your time.

Your solution worked. Now I see the banner.

However, the banner is now crowding out the buttons just below it. How would I put some space between the banner and the buttons? I tried adding Allen's "spacing" code in the CSS box just below the custom banner code but guess that doesn't work.

After this question, I'll move future questions to a new post and spend a little more reading time in the forum. I've got a shoot Saturday at a high school soccer game where I'll be handing out business cards to some soccer moms. I'm trying to get a basic web page up cuz the soccer moms are gonna wanna look at my pictures

bothphoto.smugmug.com

msmoore

[Allen]

Originally Posted by MSMoore

Thanks Allen and Andy. I appreciate your time.

Your solution worked. Now I see the banner.

However, the banner is now crowding out the buttons just below it. How would I put some space between the banner and the buttons? I tried adding Allen's "spacing" code in the CSS box just below the custom banner code but guess that doesn't work.

After this question, I'll move future questions to a new post and spend a little more reading time in the forum. I've got a shoot Saturday at a high school soccer game where I'll be handing out business cards to some soccer moms. I'm trying to get a basic web page up cuz the soccer moms are gonna wanna look at my pictures

bothphoto.smugmug.com

msmoore

Tweak to suit.

#my_banner {
    display: none;
    width: 750px;
    height: 150px;
    margin: 10px auto 10px auto;  /* top right bottom left */
    background: url(http://BothPhoto.smugmug.com/photos/109215559-O.png) no-repeat;
}

AL

[MSMoore]

Originally Posted by Allen

Tweak to suit.

#my_banner {
    display: none;
    width: 750px;
    height: 150px;
    margin: 10px auto 10px auto;  /* top right bottom left */
    background: url(http://BothPhoto.smugmug.com/photos/109215559-O.png) no-repeat;
}

AL

Upon further review, I didn't have the 2nd problem (I didn't have the buttons on the home page where I thought I did) but learned something helpful in the process. Thanks for your time, Allen. I have lots to learn.

msmoore

[EZRyder]

Hate to bother, but...

I followed the tutorial and it works fine, but, I'd like to change the color - background and text - of the nav bar ONLY on my gallery pages. I have a custom (different than homepage and gallery index page) banner for my Gallery pages. I guess I need to have custom nav bars, too. How do I do that? I want them to be spread out and change the font and size and all that.

Thanks!!

[Allen]

Originally Posted by EZRyder

Hate to bother, but...

I followed the tutorial and it works fine, but, I'd like to change the color - background and text - of the nav bar ONLY on my gallery pages. I have a custom (different than homepage and gallery index page) banner for my Gallery pages. I guess I need to have custom nav bars, too. How do I do that? I want them to be spread out and change the font and size and all that.

Thanks!!

For any color changes, etc. see this site and look down thru the code. All the colors are labeled. Add what pieces you need, just change .menu to .navcontainer.

You now have this defined in your header. (minus the spaces)
< div id="navcontainer" >

Create more there.
< div id="navcontainer2" >
< li> ......
< /div>

< div id="navcontainer3" >
< li> ......
< /div>

Then you'll need to add to your CSS for each piece of code. This if all
menus have commen code.

#navcontainer,
#navcontainer2,
#navcontainer3 {
blab:blab;
... }

If the new menu containers have diff code, copy just that piece of code
and change the front end.

#navcontainer2 {
blab:blab;
... }

#navcontainer3 {
blab:blab;
... }

#navcontainer2,
#navcontainer3 {
blab:blab;
... }


Hope this helps, holler back as you go along and we'll help.
Al

[EZRyder]

Big help here! But, at the end of the day, I decided to go with just the same banner and color/theme on all pages, so I just need to modify the one set of nav buttons - which is ugly enough to figure out.

I'm getting REAL close here, though. I have two more (small) issues that I'll need help with asap, and I just can't find the place I saw this, but it's here somewhere. I want to remove two things from my gallery pages:

1) The "< Prev 1 of 60 Next > " thingy - but I want to keep the page ones, of course.

2) The Name > Album text over the thumbnails.

My next big project will be fixing up the Gallery Index page, but that will likely have to wait, as it looks like it'll likely be a big job. Basically, I want it to look like Andy's.

Thanks!!!!!

[Manticore]

I've followed the instructions on FAQ #90 - I want a Banner, a Navbar, a slideshow, no galleries on my homepage, and a separate galleries page, can do? - TUTORIAL

But I can't seem to get it to work. Obviously I'm missing something. My banner is ok, and the nav bar is ok, but the slideshow isn't showing up.

My page is justastateofmind.smugmug.com

I'm not sure where to check for errors and I'm going cross-eyed!

Thanks.

[Allen]

Originally Posted by Manticore

I've followed the instructions on FAQ #90 - I want a Banner, a Navbar, a slideshow, no galleries on my homepage, and a separate galleries page, can do? - TUTORIAL

But I can't seem to get it to work. Obviously I'm missing something. My banner is ok, and the nav bar is ok, but the slideshow isn't showing up.

My page is justastateofmind.smugmug.com

I'm not sure where to check for errors and I'm going cross-eyed!

Thanks.

???? I see it right there in your bio below the most popular photos box.

Or did you fix something after posting?
Al