On 8/1/2013 09:52, George Sinos wrote:
Ann - I took a look at your site and I don't think you would have any
trouble getting close to what you have now.
To answer your questions:
I started with the Smugmug design, added the slide show and deleted
the section where galleries would be displayed below the folders
section.
You don't have to make it public until you're happy with it. You can
run it in the sandbox to check everything out before you hit the
"unveil" button.
Yeah I got that - but "publish" scared me at first...:-)
The square thumbnails are the defaults, but you can select from
several different aspect ratios.
already did - but what I want is display of aspect ratio of the
photo I'm using, whatever it is. However I selected 3:2 for the time being
You can change the word "folders" to anything you want or get rid of
it completely. That's a good idea, I may do that later.
Yup - I took that out completely
You can set the category thumbnails to any photo on your site just as
you do now. I'm not sure why that didn't automatically carry over.
Yeah that was irritating...
It says they should in the help files. It only took me a few minutes
to reset them.
for the opening "landing" page I only have 10 categories so it isnt so
bad but I have about 50 galleries. ugh.
There isn't anything changing randomly unless you set it to work that way
that seems to be the default - or maybe just the template I started with.
The unlisted galleries only show up when you're logged in. Password
protected galleries show up if they are not unlisted. Password
protected galleries show a lock if you don't select a thumbnail image.
That all works just as it did in the old Smugmug. There is also a new
level called private. These only show up for the site owner and only
when logged in.
what I want to bury is the ones with locks... Ideally, a hidden
folder which doesnt show up as a "locked" one publicly - but
I can send people to with a password and link... without the
thumbnail appearing anywhere publicly.
When I was making my final changes I ran the legacy site in Internet
Explorer (logged out) in one window while I was logged in doing the
new site design in Chrome so that I could refer back and forth.
I looked at your site and it doesn't look like you have anything that
would require html or css in the new system. You could get it very
close. There are a lot of predefined backgrounds that look very nice.
If you don't find one you like, you can supply your own.
I've got the blackground :-) that was easy... eliminated the trim
I actually like the one with the banner like yours - I plan on changing
the bio part to an about me thing that will link to the full bio within
the site. I'm annoyed that the thumbnail with the bio photo is square..
It cropped my bio photo.
One thing that will change, the new Smugmug is much more aware of the
screen size and device the viewer is using. I've looked at my site on
tablets, phones and several screen sizes. It adapts beautifully. But
be aware that it does that by re-arranging things. This is the
"responsive" design that everyone is trying to pull off these days.
So far I think Smugmug has done it very well. You can lock it so this
doesn't happen, but I wouldn't. It works very well for the user, no
matter the size or type of device.
Yes good idea
Text is appropriately re-sized and sometimes put into a scroll box.
The Banner is re-sized and on really small screens cropped a bit. As
it is now your banner doesn't even show up on the small iPhone screen
and it is very small on an iPad. It should be readable on both
screens in the new design.
I'm going to change it anyway..
One thing though..I watched the vid, and he was pushing the easy
easy easy stuff but... I want to change ALLLL my galleries to
have their landing pages be all thumbs and while it says "bulk changes"
it is only within each folder and within a gallery as far as i could see.
I want to bulk change every single gallery to all thumbs... then I
could go back and pick a couple that I dont want that way but
I really hate repetative scut work and so far I cant find the
true bulk change thing.
On my site, nothing changes drastically, but the size of the slide
show and the number of columns used for the folders changes. On a
phone the folders display in a single column when the phone is held
vertically, two columns when the phone is held horizontally. On the
iPad it's two and three columns. On an 11" screen it was three
columns and on bigger screens it's four columns. They try to make the
photos as large as is appropriate device. Like I said, most of this
can be locked down, but at least on my site, I wouldn't. If you don't
have different devices to test, you can just change your window size
and watch it adapt.
Once you start playing I'm sure you'll find that it's all fairly well laid out.
I ahve to say i'm obsessed with it at the moment... I have absolutely no
bids or sales on ebay - which is a disaster, have to do something about
my broken tooth, laundry and dishes are piling up ... but now I want
to get into this thing and get it done...
I'd like a text sidebar that is an index , I think... and a lot less
clutter.
Some of the examples they think are so gorgeous I think are hideous,
equivalents of shouting on the web, cliche over- HDR'd over saturated
boring stuff.
I have a bit of a problem with the task windows overlapping the
page you are working on, too. and I'd like the panes that have
the functions to work on to be black on white, not in the theme
I'm working in.
Finally what the flying F*** are Breadcrumbs???
thanks for all your input, george
I kept this on list for the sake of others of us who are in the same
boat --
best,
ann
I can't stand the way most sites are doing help files these days. You
know the kind I'm talking about, type in a question and get mostly
irrelevant answers.
Smugmug has done the same, but they do have a
"view all help" selection. This makes much more sense to me. You can
read things more like a book and get a feeling for how all of it works
before you start clicking around and trying to discover how things
work. I should have done that, but did click around for about an hour
before scanning through the help files.
The main thing is, nothing changes (except gallery styles) for the
public until you unveil your site. You can even have multiple designs
in your sandbox and see what your site looks like under several
different designs. This works even after you go public, so you can
continue to tweak and re-design your site and only make the changes
public when you are happy with them.
Rest assured, it will be different, but overall, the new system is a
huge improvement.
gs
George Sinos
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www.GeorgeSinos.com
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