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The only reason I did that was so I could use the style to center align the text.
Is there a better way to do that?
Actually, all I had to do is delete the newline in front of the last <div>.
The following text works fine:
## <i style="color: #9c6;" class="fa fa-camera-retro"></i> Dave's Photo Gallery
##<div style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: #FFFF00;" class="fa fa-exclamation-circle"></i> UNDER CONSTRUCTION <i style="color: #FFFF00;" class="fa fa-exclamation-circle"></i></div>
###<div style="text-align: center;">I have switched to new web gallery software and am in the process of uploading all of my photos.<br>If you are looking for a specific Album or Photo, please [contact me](/contact).</div>Not sure WHY that fixed it or why I had the problem when it was in Tray 1 (because I wasn't displaying Tray 1).
OK - I have it narrowed down, and it is really strange....
The problem was NOT in the page template, as I originally suspected. It was in the Album Set Template.
My page does not have any Trays. During my testing, I placed what is normally in the Album Set main copy into the Tray 1 copy (just so I could copy & paste it back later). That text contains the following:
## <i style="color: #9c6;" class="fa fa-camera-retro"></i> Dave's Photo Gallery
##<div style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: #FFFF00;" class="fa fa-exclamation-circle"></i> UNDER CONSTRUCTION <i style="color: #FFFF00;" class="fa fa-exclamation-circle"></i></div>
###<div style="text-align: center;">I have switched to new web gallery software and am in the process of uploading all of my photos.<br>If you are looking for a specific Album or Photo, please [contact me](/contact).
</div>When that is in the Tray 1 copy, the problem occurs. If I remove that HTML from the Tray 1 copy, the problem goes away. It also occurs if I have it in the Main Copy area as well.
So something in my HTML is screwing it up. The HTML is the same as I use in my CE4 Albums.
Any idea what is screwing it up?
Tried creating new page and album set templates. Problem did not reoccur (altho I did not completely recreate the existing templates). I included text from lightroom (replacing template text) and the same problem occurred.
The problem is probably in the Page template, as it occurred again if I just made a new album set template using my existing page template.
Custom CSS isn't the problem, as I removed it and problem still occurred.
Will keep playing with it to see if I can narrow the scope a bit
If I add text to the "Main Copy" field in my album set template, the navigation menu moves to the bottom of the page. If Main Copy is empty, then the nav menu is where is should be.
Here is the custom CSS to put a frame around Album thumbnails:
.album-thumbnail {
border:1px solid #021a40;
}I am using the Descriptive layout for my Album Set template.
Is there a way to get a border around the thumbnails?
Sample page at: http://pfredd.com/TestBL/galleries/
CE4 makes it easy to add links to Social Media such as Twitter & Facebook.
I do not see that in Backlight. Are there plans to add this, or should I go ahead and code my on HTML to do it?
P.S. - I LOVE being able to make small changes then be able to immediately see the results.
Great job!
Oops. Thought I HAD made those changes, but I must have forgotten to save. Not used to using the CPanel editor...
Fixed it and it all works correctly.
Thanks!
OK, I created a custom css file that contains the following:
nav a:visited {
color: #494949;
}I enabled Custom CSS in the template and pointed to the css file. I did not enable PHPlugins.
This did not fix the problem.
I have also noticed that if you click on a different menu item, then back your browser, only the latest menu item clicked is blue. The previously blue item has reverted to the correct coloring.
Click on "TRAVED BLOG", then your browser's back button. TRAVEL BLOG will then be blue.
After clicking on a menu hyperlink, subsequent visits to the page have the hyperlink showing up in blue. While I can set the menu items text and background color, as well as it's hover properties, I can't find where to set the "already clicked once" color of the menu text.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
OK, that answers my question. I DO have to create new templates in Backlight.
Not a problem.
Thanks!
Rod, I am sorry that I am not getting my question expressed correctly.
Let me try it this way:
1 - I have a CE4 Gallery that I created with Lightroom.
2 - I install Backlight according to the instructions.
3 - I tell Backlight to convert my Gallery to Backlight.
Now my questions:
1 - Will the "new" gallery look exactly the same as the old one?
2 - Will there be Backlight templates created by the conversion that match the templates that I used in CE4? I need these as I create new albums, etc.
Thanks!
So, what you are saying is the CE4 templates do not get migrated and have to be recreated using Backlight, correct?
If I convert my current gallery, will the templates it uses be converted as well, or do I have to recreate them using Backlight?
If it does convert the templates, can I just then delete the albums and use the converted templates in new albums?
I know I can convert my CE4 Gallery into Backlight.
Is it possible to just convert my CE4 templates? I plan to rework my Gallery and it would be nice to not have to reinvent the wheel with creating new templates.
Thanks!
You might want to add IEMobile to your list so that it works on Windows Phones.
Seems to be working fine on my test site.
I would like to introduce my CE4 site: http://www.Pfredd.com
Unlike almost everyone here, I am NOT a professional photographer. What I do is use photographs to tell stories. I document trips, record events and instruct others with photos.
My photo gallery documents my travels round the world and events I have attended.
I also collect and restore old Airstream travel trailers, and my Projects page instructs others on how to do some of the upgrades and repairs that I have done.
The entire site, with the exception of the extremely ugly "Argosy Solar Project" (RIP Microsoft Front Page), was built using CE4.
I have a LOT of other photos to cull, add captions/GPS and upload, so stay tuned over the coming months as that gets accomplished.
I want to say "Thanks!" to Matt, Rod, Ben & Daniel for their patience with my many questions and problems (most of which were self inflicted)!
David
I was thinking that if none of the albums in an album set needed publishing, then the "Publish" button would not be active when you click on that album set.
In LR, when I select an album set inside a Publisher instance, the "Publish" button hilites, even when none of the albums in the set need publishing. If I click on it, something gets published (not sure what), and the button remains active afterwards.
I can check that none of the albums in the set need publishing by selecting each album in the set and the Publish button remains inactive.
I have tried this with "Push metadata without updating existing photos" checked and unchecked.
Is this normal?
Thanks Rod.
A suggestion for a future release would be to have publisher copy any photos in the template's photos folder when it is publishing.