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Gents, would just like to thank you guys for all of your help. I finally got the first draft of my website up, but just having one small problem. One of the pictures appers to be blocked out in the slideshow of my galleries or when I click on it. The picture is covered with a gray box as if it is still loading. I reuploaded the entire gallery and then tried to delete and upload the indivudual pic but still the same. What's funny is that the pic is on my front page slide show and runs without fault. Maybe you guys can take a look and let me know please
http://laughinghouseimages.com/gallerie … gallery_2/
Its the second to last image on the bottom
Rod, so your saying that I can actually add pictures under my gallery page without highslide or autoindex. if so, then I lost something in translation. I i actually uploaded 7 pics but can only see the main pic on my gallery page.
Guys, so I have my initial sight up and I'm stoked. Just need to know what should I get next Ive done some of the reading :-) but a little confused do I need both the highslide and auto indexing or will highslide be enough. At this point nothing to flashy my goal is 3-5 galleries , portraits,family,model work etc, and the password protection gallery. at this point I think that would be more than enough.
Rod I think I've got it. And I need to thank you again. This I didnt remember seing in the online or wiki reading unless I skipped over it. It appears that I was uploading the entire exported folder from lightroom. Once again that critical reading thing. I found you saying in another post "Upload the contents of the Pages folder you exported (assuming you named it Pages). Not the "pages" folder itself, but its contents. So all day I have been uploading the entire folder which was probably problem#2. so thanks a million.
For any newbees, would just like to state that the admin here has been great and very helpful. and if you have little to no experience with website design the turning gate appears to be a good place to start.
1- I suggest you read, read and read again. take your time its alot to digest all at once. Then ask questions.
My 1st problem I came up against was placing files in the wrong place using windows7. pay close attention and place the files exactly where the tutorial states.
2nd When uploading to the ftp you want to upload the contents of your "output folder" not the folder itself. So if you name the output folder "sample web-gallery", you want to double click on that folder and copy all the folders and files within to your ftp site.
Thanks again admin. I hope this can be somewhat useful to someone else in the same situation like I was. hopefully all else will be ok from this point forward. Have a great weekend gentlemen.
Thanks Rod:D , now comes the last hurdle. Now that I've got everything set up when I get everything ftp up to the /public_html folder I still dont see the page :-( gonna be a longg weekend for me.
Matthew, you are so very right. Reading thoroughly and completely is definitely fundamental. Minutes away from going off into the corner to cry, I went back and gave the reading/ getting started material another try. It looks a lot different at 2 in the afternoon as opposed to 2 in the am. So, my mistake appears to have been placing the ce2 pages in the wrong place (head hangs shamefully low).
your specific instructions were
c:users>app data>roaming>adobe>lightroom>web galleries
however, this is where I had the files placed
program files>adobe>adobephotoshoplightroom3>shared webengines
which appears great just for the layout panel, but of course no image in the preview area.
So lastly, If I were to purchase anything else from ttg it would also go in this folder correct? eg.. client response or auto viewer.
And if I were to download any of the different themes/ templates
they would go here:
C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Lightroom\Web Templates\
Hopefully now I am well on my way. Thank you so very much for your patience and understanding.
Matthew, but what I can't understand for the life of me is why I cant see any changes taking place in lightroom in the main work area. all I see is the white background with the heading error followed by switch view and a bunch of script. as if the info should be there but its just not displaying. I now have tried it on both a pc and a laptop and it looks the same. On my pc i have the full version on my laptop I have the light version. I see the turinggate layout in the far right panel, so I'm pretty sure I dropped it in the right folder, but there must be something I'm missing. Could you recommend any screen capture software so maybe I could record the process and show you. This way maybe there's a mistake I'm making that you could catch along the way?
Matthew, back again. I've read until I think my head is going to explode. So this is where I stand at the moment.
1. I've attempted to follow most of the basic website creation follow along. and was able to export some test gallery's to my desktop. (from my understanding of the reading I shouldn't be able to see anything in terms of a preview while working in this mode with the ce2 pages correct? only after I upload to my site/bluehos?
2. I downloaded Filezilla which will be my ftp client? I first ftp the sample webpage info to the wrong folder :-( ,but was able to go on bluehost and move it to the correct folder /public_html
3.I also noticed that It says I need to validate my account before I have full use of it. So I'm wondering is the reason I only see a bluehost generic advertising page when I type in my domain laughinghouseimages.com?
4. Also, when I hit the preview button while working on the pages in lightroom, from mytestwebsite collection I see right at the top it says error in the script or coding where the preview of the layout should be is this normal? I'm hopeless I'm not even sure how to incorporate an image into this form, but it looks sort of like this:
ERROR
SWitch View
1. <%--
2. --[[establish the root for resources links]]
3. local root = "."
etc....
5. Lastly, when I hit the preview in browser button, it will just open up a Microsoft windows page. If I try to click on the gallery saved to my desktop I will see the same type of error as stated above. Thanks for any help with this matter.
Thanks Mattew, I'll get started right away. I'll report back to this thread with any success or failures. I'm very excited about the entire process and hope to turn a new chapter this year with tht turning gate on my side. Thanks for the info, much appreciated.
Hi, I've been poking around this site for over a year now and thinking about building a website for quite sometime. I finally decided to do it, but I know little to nothing about building a site or web design, hosting etc.. I read the article about web hosting and paid for a bluehost account. I would like to build for starters just a simple site to show case my photography and some basic info about myself. Maybe moving on to having a portion where my clients can log in and proof or pick their favorite images. So my big question is where do I start? which would be the easiest way/ plug in to start with. I was also looking at the free section which has the ttg autoviewer, could I use this as a stand alone plug in just to get a taste of how the actual site will look or will this need to be used in conjuction with one of the paid plug ins? So in summary what should or could be my road map for getting started please? I also use windows 7 and lightroom-3. Thanks in advance for any help with this matter
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