Community @ The Turning Gate

Ah . . . never mind. I just found the instructions in readme.txt. Sorry.

Rod: Thanks, and yes, I do need help. I've gotten way off on a rabbit trail thinking I needed to learn PHP and Javascript and I really don't have the basics down yet. I have the CE4 bundle and Stage freshly downloaded and am re-learning all the panels - the thing I need to do most now is to create a set of pages to go under Classes and Workshops listing our classes and giving times. These are mostly text with a few pictures - easy stuff, if I can get them in the right places and get the links to work. What I have to work with is Dreamweaver CC (and all the other Adobe Suite stuff).

Just a question (not taking a position in the ideological combat zone that is image protection philosophy . . . ). I've seen several sites and apps that, rather than disabling the right-click menu, let you proceed to "Save Image As" but what you download is a little ten-bit dummy file if the image is protected. Quite a few museums and retail, brick-and-mortar galleries use that method on their website, particularly for high-value or iconic images. Without reviewing, I'm thinking that every site I've seen that on is a high-end development (e.g. current exhibition galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art site) that probably cost tens of thousands of dollars, so maybe it's a purchased security package of some kind.

I've also seen a few on-line apps and major photo sites that function similarly to flickr, where the download function is explicit on the page and the right-click menu is modified - these provide clear messages about what restrictions the image owner has set and what files and resolutions you can or can't download. If well done, these are a polite and professional approach to limiting nuisance downloads to only what someone can screen-cap. I don't know that I've seen that on a straightforward HTML site, though.

I'm guessing I could create something like the second approach, with a pop-up message (explaining the terms and conditions in a civil, non-velociraptor manner), by starting with the dinosaur script above. I'm also guessing I'm on my own there . . . which I understand - no such functionality is offered or implied in the TTG literature. I might fiddle with that if time allows. I would be interested, though, if anyone could guide me to any practical approach for the first method, where the right-click menu works normally but the site swaps in a little dummy jpg file as the download from the "Save Image As" option. That one has the advantage that it lets you post a large, high-quality file that supports zooming and various high-end displays, but still limits the unauthorized downloads to a screen capture or a sophisticated thief. If anyone knows where to point me it would be much appreciated.

Thanks for the quick response, Rod: I'm still up a tree though.

I followed those instructions, to the letter - checked and rechecked - but when I publish that new album, titled "slideshow", with slug set as pages-gallery and hidden from Autoindex, it replaces the slideshow on the Home page with an Iconic gallery, using the setup from the Autoindex (which is on the "Photography" (aka Galleries) page). The images are the correct ones, i.e. the images I put in the new album.

I attached a couple of screenshots to show the problem more clearly. Note that, in Appearances/theGallery, the display is still set to Galleria Slideshow.

What am I missing?

Well . . . I'm not there yet. Looks like the book creator doesn't capture anything but the open page, so I basically get the same thing I would if I File>Print in the browser. It does offer an option for a printable text-only version, which dumps the headers, but still only operates at whatever level of page hierarchy I'm at. I was hoping that there's a way to print, for instance, "Courses," with all the sub-pages expanded. I assume that, with the book creator, I'd still have to go to each sub-page, add it to the book, then back out and get the next one?