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OK, still getting that error message when trying to re-open the custom.css and phplugins.php files in Brackets to re-check my work (can dismiss the message though).

I now am starting to understand the architecture and paths here:  the scripts assume a starting point for the path, that starting point will vary from provider to provider and user to user and is not generally seen by users, that's why we had to ping it and get back a path that's really there all the time, just invisible to average users / mere mortals.

Will focus on some clean-ups in Pages now, then FTP it up.

Gentlemen -

Not sure that my latest reply actually posted (can't see it), so I'll re-do it.  Surely a sign that it's time for a break from computer.

Typekit / CSS:

Thank you for the tips and link to John Bishop tutorial, which is great and very clear.  I followed that meticulously. Used Brackets as editor.  I have a few glitches though.

1) path for plugins on my installation is [tld]/phplugins-sample/...  So am I correct that I either have to change that to drop "-sample" OR when making the edits for Typekit, add "-sample" to the text edits that John prescribes, other reference in the text to the path, and also within the Adobe Java script.  Otherwise, path will be wrong.

2) when I then tried to recheck my work by opening the two newly-edited files in Brackets, i) CSS opened just fine, but ii) in opening phplugins.php, Brackets gives me a nasty error message that the file/directory can't be found. Gives a really long path that looks like a local address, even though the files live on a host server in Munich and are only local when I open them for editing.  I tried to paste in a screen shot, but it didn't work. I'll send to Matt's e-mail address and take a guess at Rod's.  Thank you, getting very close and learning by leaps and bounds.

Robert

Need a little more help here from more experiences users, please.

1) is resolved. Many thanks, Rod.
2) not yet. I either did something wrong or didn't explain my goals clearly enough.  I followed the advice, made the changes in Pages and Publisher, but the mini-gallery posts to the Galleries page.  I wanted it in center of Home page.

My goal:

a) a gallery of representative work on the home page.  No index, no other Galleries / Albums.
b) Galleries / Albums and Index on Galleries page - that is, a conventional Galleries page for the fuller collection.

If possible, and in a next stage:
a) a Navigation tab "Recent Works" (I have set up the tab) that points to a Gallery / Album of recent photos
b) ability to customize fonts - I joined Adobe Typekit and want to use a font that TTG doesn't provide / support. Trying to figure out where to embed the code that Adobe provides.

However, for the next day or two I'd be happy to resolve just the first 2 items above and be grateful to whoever might help.

Robert

Rod, thanks. I think I get it. For 1), delete any inde.html that may come from the provider, not the index.php?  For 2), instead of Pages, make the home page using Gallery, but only a single album with the small sampling?

Best,
Robert

This issue resolved.  Found some German-language FTP help pages from my host, fashioned a question in German to the help desk and got back two prompt responses.  Was a server-side setting that I needed to change so as to force the FTPs to land in the webspace.

Got TTG-BE Admin configured and am now onto the next steps.