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#3026 Re: General » Publish to a seperate slideshow from LR » 2014-06-12 16:55:24
Use CE3 Stage. It supports Galleria slideshow managed by Publisher.
#3027 Re: General » Thoughts on Creative Cloud » 2014-06-09 11:32:18
As indicated by others above, Lightroom will continue to be available both as a part of Adobe's Creative Cloud and as standalone software. Regardless which you choose, this is irrelevant to TTG. Our plugins work identically in both.
#3028 Re: General » Shifting a previous order to a new email address » 2014-05-29 09:05:30
As Rod says, please drop me an email including order number, old address and new address.
#3029 Re: General » My internet provider has blocked my IP numbers » 2014-05-17 12:08:59
You need to contact your host about the problem. Explain to them that you're using a legitimate photo upload application, and that it's not spam or bot activity. If they have a problem with that, then you may need to consider using another host that places fewer restrictions on your activity.
#3030 Re: General » Can you retro update TTG CE3 Client Response with TTG CE3 Publisher? » 2014-05-16 10:53:47
If you didn't use Publisher, then you will need to export and upload the 20 galleries anew.
If you used Publisher, and the twenty galleries are using the same template, then you need only export and upload the ONE template, and the updates will be applied to all galleries using that template.
So with publisher, you upload one gallery (optionally with no images, making for a very fast export and upload). Without publisher, you need to export and upload all 20 galleries and all of your images again. Publisher wins.
#3031 Re: General » does TTG 2014 HTML Gallery support videos » 2014-04-21 15:03:20
Parema,
Here's what it looks like to manage galleries using our publisher:
http://youtu.be/OgvIvj79N4g
You can decide for yourself what constitutes "too much manual work", but I think we make it pretty easy to maintain things.
#3032 Re: General » does TTG 2014 HTML Gallery support videos » 2014-04-20 01:59:11
The 2014 HTML Gallery does not support video, nor does the Web module support video export of any kind.
CE3 Stage allows you to create video pages, but you will still need to source the video externally (upload video files to your site, or to YouTube or Vimeo). See documentation for details.
#3033 Re: General » Download single images upon click » 2014-04-16 14:41:51
Also, if you're using publisher, then the publisher can upload downloadable renditions for you. You just need to set it up in the gallery template.
#3034 Re: General » Navigation problems » 2014-04-09 11:37:04
Because you provided "robertmckinney.com/" as site root instead of "http://robertmckinney.com/", as the plugin expects.
Ref: http://ce3wiki.theturninggate.net/doku. … up#website
Nice shots from Angkor, btw. One of my favorite manmade places on this earth. Here's mine, if you're interested:
http://campagnapictures.com/galleries/cambodia-angkor/
#3035 Re: General » Templates sometimes lose/revert some settings » 2014-04-08 17:53:18
There's a bug in LR that sometimes causes the identity plate to reset. I have reported this to Adobe, but there has been no fix as yet.
The Sharpening checkbox is also a known bug.
Otherwise, make sure that you right-click your template and choose "Update..." when making changes.
#3036 Re: General » Your experiences with file-naming? » 2014-04-07 13:01:20
No idea. Search engines are generally rather vague out how things are weighed, and they change their algorithms constantly, so today's answer may not be tomorrow's answer.
You may find this enlightening:
http://static.googleusercontent.com/med … -guide.pdf
Or this:
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot. … mages.html
#3037 Re: General » Looking for a check listed road map to overcome setup problems. (Newby » 2014-04-05 13:13:22
#3038 Re: General » Looking for a check listed road map to overcome setup problems. (Newby » 2014-04-05 12:50:28
Why is your "Works" link pointing to http://kymhammond.com.au/portfolio/galleries/ and not galleries.php (as default)?
#3039 Re: General » Your experiences with file-naming? » 2014-04-05 01:37:07
I don't think either of those "solutions" are actually intentional solutions. Generally speaking, these people don't know they have a problem in the first place. We aim to educate in this reach, but our reach is small.
#3040 Re: General » Your experiences with file-naming? » 2014-04-04 18:42:42
1.
The problem with putting sequence number first is that your images would no longer sort by keyword. Let's say I'm here in Seoul, hanging out with Lucy. We take some photos; some photos are of Lucy, and some photos are just of Seoul.
Sorting by capture time, I'd get this:
mc-20140404-Korea-Seoul-0001
mc-20140404-Korea-Lucy-0002
mc-20140404-Korea-Seoul-0003
mc-20140404-Korea-Lucy-0004
Sorting by file name, I'd get this:
mc-20140404-Korea-Lucy-0002
mc-20140404-Korea-Lucy-0004
mc-20140404-Korea-Seoul-0001
mc-20140404-Korea-Seoul-0003
So now my photos of Lucy are all together, which is convenient if I need to gather of the images to send to Lucy.
If I put my sequence number ahead of my keyword, then my images always sort this way (by capture time, by file name, etc.)
mc-20140404-0001-Korea-Seoul
mc-20140404-0002-Korea-Lucy
mc-20140404-0003-Korea-Seoul
mc-20140404-0004-Korea-Lucy
2.
I would limit myself to two-to-three strong keywords. Depending on the day you ask and whom you're asking, overly long file names may actually hurt your SEO. I think Google stops looking at filenames beyond a certain length, and it will also punish you if it determines you're just trying to spam it with keywords.
3.
If you want to weight SEO toward your name rather than your keywords, then using your name is not a bad idea. For me, it's just for my own convenience in knowing which images are mine, which are someone else's, and to keep letters at the front of the file name.
You might also read my recent workflow article, which also discusses using file names:
http://theturninggate.net/2014/03/proce … the-stars/
#3041 Re: Announcements & Information » Change permissions on Target Folder » 2014-04-03 14:22:51
Just to point it out, the Full Install Guide is more in depth on how to go about these things. The Quick Install Guide is for those who are already familiar with setting up web applications. If you need more explanation, then you should be going by this document:
http://ce3wiki.theturninggate.net/doku. … tall_guide
#3042 Re: General » Demos » 2014-04-01 14:43:04
Well, there are two videos you can watch. The first shows the publisher in action, so should be pretty awesome for you to see if you're used to the old pre-publisher versions:
http://youtu.be/OgvIvj79N4g
This video shows how to setup a responsive workspace, so that you can use the Web module to design for desktop and mobile:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM_1ZHhi31w
#3043 Re: General » Setting up website - Would like your advice, tips, etc... » 2014-03-31 14:24:46
WordPress allows you greater control over the number and content of your pages, allows you to blog, provides greater SEO benefits than a traditional static website, is extensible and customizable in to a greater degree using plugins, and allows you to use WordPress' built-in navigation manager for your entire site (including galleries) using the technique outlined in our documentation:
http://ce3wiki.theturninggate.net/doku. … r_of_magic
Reasons that you might opt to use CE3 Pages as your base instead of WordPress are the well-defined "Galleries" page, and the ability to use one of our gallery/slideshow options for your "Home" page. In this case, you can still use the navigation trick (because you're still using WordPress in an off-root location), and you'll still get the SEO benefits, etc.
If it's Pages vs. WordPress, then I think WordPress is the clear winner if you're willing to go through the setup. But there's also an argument to be made for combining the two, mostly depending on what you'd like your Home page to be. I think my preferred approach is to begin with CE3 Pages, but export only the Home and Galleries pages, then to rely on WordPress for everything else.
But if you don't care for the CE3 Pages "Home" page, then you can achieve the same using just CE3 Theme for WordPress with CE3 Auto Index being the foundation for your galleries hierarchy.
#3044 Re: General » Seeking TTG Best Practices, Tips, Suggestions, and Gotchas » 2014-03-21 12:23:54
2. Make sure you update the correct preset! Once overwritten your preset is gone. They aren't stored in the catalog, so you can't retrieve them from a back up catalog.
Not entirely true. You can Undo a template save. I'm not completely clear on the ramifications (whether you would then need to load the preset and re-save it to lock in the file, etc.), but such mistakes are recoverable so long as you recover immediately, and do not quit the application.
#3045 Re: General » Migrating test website to the real thing » 2014-03-19 14:51:03
I suppose you will need to wait so that the API URL will resolve, allowing the publisher plugin to connect to the installed API. In the meantime, you can put the publisher's files and templates in place, setup WordPress if you plan to use it, etc.
#3046 Re: General » World Map Gallery » 2014-03-02 00:03:21
Just follow this:
http://ce3wiki.theturninggate.net/doku. … publishing
Get Pages and Publisher setup, and publish your first gallery. After that, then you can start worrying about the auto index, etc. Nail the basics, then expand.
#3047 Re: General » World Map Gallery » 2014-02-26 21:04:24
that's CE3 Gallery.
#3048 Re: General » World Map Gallery » 2014-02-26 20:33:27
I see. Then like I said, you'll want to buy this:
CE3 Blog & Galleries Bundle
CE3 Pages
Setup according to this tutorial:
http://ce3wiki.theturninggate.net/doku. … publishing
And then run your blog from a subfolder under your main domain, or from a subdomain.
I'm not sure which slideshow you're talking about on my site. Can you give the link?
#3049 Re: General » World Map Gallery » 2014-02-26 18:55:14
Campagna Pictures is built with:
CE3 Pages
CE3 Publisher
CE3 Gallery
CE3 Theme for WordPress
For your sitemap, it looks like you've categorized you galleries by continent, so for those categorizations you'd also want to use CE3 Auto Index.
Your best purchasing option would then be:
CE3 Blog & Galleries Bundle
CE3 Pages
Through I would consider CE3 Pages optional. For example, if you'd like your landing page to be the blog (rather than a full-screen thing like I have), then you could probably do without CE3 Pages.
CE3 Stage can act as a replacement for CE3 Gallery, though it's less capable. Stage is suitable for small-to-medium sized galleries, where CE3 Gallery can handle galleries of pretty much any size. It's also compatible with our shopping cart.
#3050 Re: General » World Map Gallery » 2014-02-26 15:43:12
Thanks for the compliment on CampagnaPictures, Moritz. 