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Sure it is. The elevator pitch is this:

"Auto Index creates a table-of-contents for multiple image galleries."

It can just be used for a lot more than that if you want.

Design your Web templates ahead of time, save them for later use in the Web module's Template Browser. Setup the publisher, upload your templates, etc. Once your publishing environment is setup online, you shouldn't need to revisit the Web module at all.

Unless, of course, you plan to customize gallery templates for each shoot. In which case, you should prepare a generic web template and save it. This should include a completed Site Info configuration, and whatever basic, common design aspects that will be constant for all galleries, so run through the Color Palette, Appearance and Output Settings panels as necessary. For example, setup Fotomoto support and save that config to your template so that you needn't revisit it.

Following a shoot:

1) Import images from shoot.

2) Rename files according to good file name convention.

3) Process images (Develop, etc.).

4) Create collections or Publish Services collections.

OPTIONAL 4B) If necessary, create, export and upload a new gallery template for the shoot to /publisher/templates/; otherwise, use your existing, all-purpose template(s) to publish your galleries.

5) Publish.

If you're trying to hook this all up with your WordPress site, then see this:
http://ce3wiki.theturninggate.net/doku. … _publisher

If not using our CE3 Theme for WordPress plugin, then just reference those portions of the tutorial which seem relevant to you.

Maybe.

The page doesn't exist; one of these days I might get around to creating it. But it's pretty low-priority right now, as I have a lot of other things yanking at my time.

CE3 page structure is similar to what's written for CE2:
http://wiki.theturninggate.net/doku.php … _framework

... except that "the canvas" is now more abstract, a way to discuss an area of the page, but not a coded container in the page.

All of our web pages are iPad compatible, but if you're wanting to export in ePub or PDF format from LR, then ... well, Lightroom isn't the appropriate tool. Also, the web module is incapable of exporting video files.

Did you move the images from within Lightroom, or externally?

Indeed! And thank you for the compliments. I wish there were some good way of reaching out to more of those people, but unless they go looking or hear about us from someone they know, ... well just *sigh* ...

Because Twitter intercepts all mobile origins and redirects them to the main page of it's mobile version website, rather than to a mobile "Tweet This Thing" page, which I must say is PRETTY BLOODY STUPID. But that's how it is. So instead of being able to tweet the thing, people pressing the button would just see their followed tweets from the world. The easiest way of dealing with this stupidity is simply to hide the button. I mentioned this someplace; I forget where, but probably on the blog when I added the sharing support ...

Sadly, these things happen. I think their handling of the situation has been exemplary, though. Setting up a dedicated blog and keeping users up-to-date on progress every thirty minutes as they worked to resolve matters shows their dedication and openness to their customers. Compare this to recent service outages at liveBooks and Fotomoto, leading up to the acquisition of liveBooks by WeddingWire and Fotomoto by Bay Photo, two entire months of complete silence and zero transparency from liveBooks while services simply failed without explanation, while customers were continuing to be billed for fees and orders for services and goods that would never be fulfilled.

If you're ready to jump ship, then that's your decision. I've used a number of hosts, and I still think Bluehost ranks among the best of them. Problems with occur at some point no matter what host you choose, and I think Bluehost by far has done the best job handling those problems when they arise.

As for email, you should setup with Google Apps and/or Gmail. I stopped using hosting mail servers a long time ago. Because I was moving sites around a lot before I settled on MediaTemple and Bluehost, I got sick of my email always being in a state of flux.

The setup will be completely different. I'd wait.

If you want to get a start on setting things up, though, you can use TTG CE3 Publisher to start putting galleries online. When the cart is released, you can then replace the underlying gallery template with an updated, cart-enabled template to "turn on" cart functionality for galleries already published.

The image can be as large as you like. If it's too big to fit the display, then Highslide will scale it to fit.

As for information for each image, you can fill the caption from metadata. The HTML gallery operates in the same way insofar as sourcing such information.

Hi Tommy,
We have never updated the HTML Gallery to become a part of the "CE" series, so I'm afraid it's not an option for the cart.

0.

TTG CE3 Pages and Auto Index comprise our indexing solution. You can use either, or both in tandem. Nesting instances of Auto Index allows you to create an organizational structure as deep as you like.

Our PHPlugins extensibility architecture allows you to implementation customizations and additional content with a high degree of flexibility.

1.

See above. You can set custom thumbnails, or just let the index handle thumbnailing for you so that you don't need to think about it. Some layouts lend themselves to one approach more than the other.

2.

Of course you can view large-size images.

3.

If you export an image very big -- bigger than will fit on the screen -- it will be downscaled to fit the space. In such cases, images can then be "zoomed" to actual size for viewing at native resolution.

See panoramic support in CE3 Stage for another option.
http://ce3.theturninggate.net/galleries … a-partial/

At this point, your bullet numbering breaks down ... so we're back to 2?

2.

Lots of options for putting metadata on the page. Two slots under each thumbnail, another two slots in the large image view. Managable from the Image Info pane in Lightroom, which allows you to combine any IPTC, EXIF or other metadata into strings for output.

3.

We offer a proprietary, untethered shopping cart system as an add-on for our galleries. You can accept payments online or not, receive orders, then manually send them off to the lab(s) of your choosing. We plan to release a new version of our shopping cart system in August.

4.

Our galleries are not database-driven, and therefore do not support search.

5.

See #1.

6.

Galleries natively support export of thumbnails and large version, watermark optional. You can also setup download buttons for each image, and supply higher-resolution versions via separate export, or -- if using TTG CE3 Publisher to manage your galleries -- publisher can export all three renditions for you.