On 7/31/2013 16:43, George Sinos wrote:
I bit the bullet and hit the go button on the new smugmug site.
It's nothing earth shattering and there are other designs that are
more contemporary, but I'm keeping my family in mind and not changing
things too much to fast.
For you others using Smugmug, this is based on the "Smugmug" design.
There are a few irregularities so far,
All of the featured photos for galleries were retained, but the
Featured photos for Categories (now called Folders) were randomly
replaced. It took about five minutes to clean that up.
That is the first thing I'd want - how did you do that?
Did you have to launch it before you cleaned it up?
Things I want : NON-square thumbnails for all folders and galleries
elimination of the word "folders" on the landing page.
the catgeory thumbnails don't change , unless I specifically change them
drop the header from the gallery pages...
No randomness anywhere on the site as to order, thumbnail choice, etc.
no unlisted or password protected galleries showing up in a folder
with a thumbnail showing a photo.
I'm not sure if I want to retain the slideshow and the folders on the
home page. I might get rid of one or the other.
The slideshow is set to automatically resize based on the screen size.
It's changed sizes a couple of times so I'm not sure how to predict
it. You can set it to a fixed size but I'd rather not.
A few of my old videos were replaced by thumbnails or translated very,
very small. I'm waiting for an answer on support for this one.
I'm going to go through all of the galleries and probably pick
different gallery styles. The new styles are much cleaner than some
of the old.ones I used in the past.
I also need to go to my Squarespace blog and decide how to make a few
changes there to make the two look a little more integrated.
All in all, with a few minor exceptions, things moved rather easily.
The main thing to remember is that you can leave things the way they
are until you are ready to switch.
But I don't see a way to see previews as you go along... the tasks
that need to be done sit on top of the pages you are working on.
How much can you change after you unveil??
I'll confess it does seem there must be a way for me to keep the
precise organization , change all the thumbnails to landscape
orientation ones.. and so on.
I wrote my bio in html and they killed that so it all ran together..
that's all Ive done...
and I never even got an "automatic response" from them in asnwer to my
cries for help
And they have made it difficult to
switch by accident. You select the "unveil" button, then you get a
standard "are you sure?" message, then you have to type in a word and
click another button to finally make the changes go public.
That's good, since I so easily could hit tthe wrong button..
Here it is <http://www.georgesphotos.net>
GS
Love the doggie in the window :-) can't abide slideshows being pushed
on me .
thanks for all the info , George -
there are a bunch of us here, some more technically ept than others in
this kind of thing
ann
George Sinos
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