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Reading just a bit about PHP, I think it's beyond my skill level.
You don't need to know or use PHP. That's the point. The pages are PHP, and they'll just do their thing when you put them online, or one a virtual server as Rod discusses above.
- or simply not possible, for reasons far beyond my understanding?
This one. Definitely not coming in the future.
I'm also seeing the custom favicon now.
@ Matthew: On my iMac the hard refresh is <CMD>-<R>, which I tried, without the desired result. Thanks anyway for your effort.
Actually, that's the soft refresh (i.e. refresh from cache).
On a Mac, if you want to refresh from source ("hard" refresh), then use Shift-CMD-R. At least, that should be the case for Safari and Chrome.
The favicon caches a little too easily. Try a hard refresh of the browser (how to do that depends on the browser).
Meet the Template Browser:
http://ce3wiki.theturninggate.net/doku. … te_browser
JPG and PNG are good. PSD is a great, big no.
At this point, I'm utterly confused about where you're putting things. Best to keep your assets in a central location. So if you're working in the /galleries/phplugins/ folder, then put everything there:
/galleries/phplugins/css/
/galleries/phplugins/images/
etc.
And make sure your references to those assets are correct.
Probably:
/galleries/phplugins/images/logo_hd_1100x192d.pngThe leading slash is important. But I don't know where you've put things; it's your server. I can only guess.
Great. Now that it's working, you can scrap the red.
For the masthead, use the tutorial. Go through the code and update the file locations for your masthead images. For example, I imagine this is probably wrong:
background-image: url(/phplugins/images/logo_hd_1100x192d.png);In the activated PHPlugins function, in phplugins.php, this line specifies the location of your custom.css file:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/phplugins/css/custom.css" />If you don't update that location to be correct for your setup, then none of this will work at all. Set the location as Rod has indicated above.
You need to setup a common location for PHPlugins, where all assets will reference it. This is explained in the documentation, and if you're running the Blog & Galleries bundle, then setup of PHPlugins was a part of the process outlined in that tutorial:
http://ce3wiki.theturninggate.net/doku. … _publisher
If that's all done correctly, then you will indeed be working within the /galleries/phplugins/ folder. Within the phplugins.php file, make sure that the function for your custom.css file correctly references the location of that file on your server.
If all of that is setup correctly, then you should be able to test your custom.css to ensure that it's working. For example, force your background-color to red, as in the Custom CSS article:
http://ce3wiki.theturninggate.net/doku. … custom_css
I found the problem. It's because you faked the centering using 125px of padding on either side. That is NOT the way to center an object. So yes, as Rod said, you will need to kill that padding.
I don't think the Core Width is the problem. I'm having a difficult time actually locating your changes, but the problem seems to be whatever code you've added to create the centered drop-down menu. You will need to "reset" your changes using media-queries to restore proper layout for the mobile navigation.
... even if you happened to accidentally upload the empty galleries/ folder from a Pages export, it won't overwrite what's in your online galleries/ folder.
That's not necessarily true. I've noticed an important difference in how some FTP clients deal with folders, compared to others. Some FTP clients will leave the existing folder intact and merge the contents. Others will delete the existing folder outright, then load the replacement in its place. Still others will give you the choice to Merge or Replace.
So, depending on your FTP client, you could very well kill whatever you've got online in an accidental rewrite.
On many points, I think. Firefox used to be quite something, but fell off its horse some while back and is now just being dragged along with its ankle stuck in the stirrup, having its head raked through the mud and bashed in on stones. It's become bloated and unwieldy in so many ways, and generally feels like it's lost its own plot. Shame.
That's just Firefox loading the next page. Nothing amiss about that.
Just had a look at your site and I didn't see anything out of the ordinary.
Sounds like not. CE3 Pages can do the same Galleria slideshow on your Home page.
CE3 Stage is sort of a grab bag of features ...
If you want the Galleria slideshow for your galleries (small-to-medium sized galleries, within the /galleries/ folder, accessible through the gallery index (i.e. the Galleries page)), then Stage can do that. It also let's you create video pages, before-and-after image comparisons, standalone pages for auxiliary purposes (if the six pages generated by CE3 Pages aren't enough, or if you need special pages for selling an ebook, detailing an event, etc.). If you want to do scrolling panoramic or 360 images. If you want to use the full-screen flip gallery (also an option in CE3 Pages) in places other than your Home page ... CE3 Stage is sort of an expansion pack.
Examples:
http://ce3.theturninggate.net/galleries … ce3-stage/
At the very least, it sounds like you can get started without CE3 Stage. You can always snag it later if you decide you have need of it.
There are various approaches you can take to this, Raven, depending on what you want to to, how you want to manage your site beyond simply putting it online, and what you're comfortable with. The plugins are intentionally designed as an open ended solution, which I know often vexes customers, many of whom want a document that just says "This is what is does, and this is how you do it, and that is all." (and now I've gotten to use the word "vexes" too!)
You can setup the core of your site on CE3 Pages, then use WordPress as an adjunct for blogging.
You can setup the core of your site on WordPress, use that to manage all of your pages and such, and then use our gallery plugins to manage your galleries from Lightroom.
You can setup the entirety of your site on WordPress, and run all of your galleries from within WordPress (though my personal feeling is that WordPress, while wonderful for blogging and general page maintenance, is pretty crap for managing galleries).
If you want a slideshow on your Home page, you can setup your Home page with CE3 Pages, or you can setup WordPress with a static Home page and use the built in slideshow. They're basically the same slideshow presentation.
For a contact form, you can use the one that's built into CE3 Pages, or you can create a WordPress page and use a form plugin (I like the Contact Form 7 plugin for this).
So, those are just some of the more common options you have to doing various things ... you just need to decide what you want and how you want to be able to manage it, and then move from there.
... any thought on why the sides of the horizontal images in the same slide show are cropping off?
Because, as I said, the borders are not supposed to be there. The gallery scales the image according to the size of the image, not the size of (the image + borders).
So to correct things, can you tell me what to do?
Yeah. Remove the borders from image in "the block" settings. They shouldn't be affecting the Galleria slideshow at all. That's a bug, and the fix -- when a fix happens -- is going to be to remove the borders entirely from the slideshow, so that the block's image settings don't impact it at all.
CE3 Pages is not required. For users who have no interest in blogging, it's a good foundation for their website, assuming they want a static HTML website. For someone who would rather blog, or wants to manage the core of their site using a content-manage-system (i.e. WordPress), then CE3 Theme for WordPress is that foundation (and it happens to be the one that I prefer, personally).
Of course, our galleries, publish services plugin, and gallery indexing plugin can be setup alongside any existing website, without either of the above.
So if you're already on WordPress and you'd like to keep on with WordPress, then do the Blog & Galleries bundle + shopping cart.
The borders shouldn't be there at all. Looks like they're carrying over from the settings for the block image, but that would be a bug.
I'm pretty sure the Jon Evans Photography that I found on Facebook wasn't you. Where you at, man?
When I look at your blog posts, I don't see anything for Open Graph Protocol (where Facebook gets its info). The CE3 galleries include this information, but the CE3 Theme for WordPress does not; I think I omitted it because I didn't want it hardcoded into the page where it might conflict with many of the popular SEO plugins available for WordPress. I maybe should have done a better job communicating via documentation, and it's one of those things I probably will want to revisit to spend more time on in a future version.
So, you may find that your wall posts get better formatting if you use the Yoast SEO plugin, or one of the other alternatives. Or you may need to fiddle with the plugin settings that push your posts to FB (are you using NextScripts?).
The gallery already includes the jQuery script, so don't call that again.
You should put your accordion script either into the head or the foot, depending on the script. You will need to gauge that on your own. But looking at what you've supplied here, and without having tried it, I don't think it matters.
I think you will also need this in your CSS, so use the custom CSS PHPlugins function as well:
.accordion > ul { display:none; }That should close your accordions by default. The script will then open them on click. Again, I write this without having tried it.