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I've been using SSP for many years now, just renewed my subscription for SlideShowPro Director. Everything still works, but I noticed on their website that there has not been any updates, nor support for well over a year. They took my money with no problem but I'm not confident they will be around. I have my website built using web software called Website: D by PicturesPro and use SSP for LR and SSP Director to manage my site's galleries. However, being concerned about the future of SSP, I'm considering TTG.
So, before I delve into TTG galleries and CE3 plugins and such, I'd just like to know if it will do what I want it to. And that basically is to create a slideshow gallery with a number of albums within the gallery (this is SSP terminology) or just a stand-alone slideshow with basic navigation and full-screen option - and then embed them using HTML into my existing web pages? From what I've read, the CE3 Publisher will do something similar to SSP Director. Am I correct in assuming this?
Is there anyone with SSP experience that is now using TTG to let me know if any of this is possible. If you want to see what my slideshow/galleries look like now, visit http://www.mgphotography.com/i/commerci … alleries/, or http://www.mgphotography.com/i/portrait … alleries/, or http://www.mgphotography.com/i/fine_art/gallery/
Last edited by mikeguil (2014-02-22 14:12:15)
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Hi Mike,
First thing to understand, output pages, galleries, etc. from TTG plugins do not embed into existing designs. Our plugins create full-fledged pages for standalone viewing, and you can cobble our components together to construct a website, organize galleries into categories, etc.
You can see our CE3 Publisher plugin in action in the video on this page:
http://ce3.theturninggate.net/info.php
And you can sample some of the gallery styles available here:
http://ce3.theturninggate.net/galleries.php
CE3 Gallery is our flagship gallery, the most versatile and with the most robust feature set, but the layout of the gallery is a thumbnail grid, very different from SSP. Something like the Galleria slideshow (available in CE3 Stage) is more similar in presentation, but more limited in scope than what CE3 Gallery does.
You can use CE3 Auto Index to create a gallery index, or a hierarchy of categorized indexes. This works with Publisher as well, allowing you to create Album Sets (gallery index) and Albums (galleries), published directly from Lightroom's Library (as in the video above).
I feel the TTG plugins are every bit as powerful as SSP (more so, actually), but for you the difficult will be the paradigm shift and the learning curve, because our products operate very differently from what you've been using.
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Thanks for the detailed info Matthew. Unfortunately it sounds like I won't be able to use TTG in this case. All I want is to embed the slideshows into my existing website. I have the ability to add my own HTML to create an entire page, but I assume that TTG doesn't generate HTML that I can cut and paste.
I have too much invested in my current site to abandon it I'm afraid. The plugins do sound powerful and if I was just starting out, might have been a good fit.
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In such a case, I think you're right. We're probably not what you're looking for. Though do keep us in mind if you ever look to redesign. Or, an alternative might be that you keep your existing site, but run our galleries and publisher in parallel, only using TTG to power your galleries.
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I may end up doing something like that Matthew. Thanks for the suggestion.
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