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Just don't bother. Search engines don't use them for anything at all. Though the description is filled using the Album Description field during gallery setup either in LR or Publisher.

I don't actually think the learning curve is very hard. There's one tutorial you should read as a new user that will walk you through all of the necessary concepts. The problem with reading through the forum is that the forum largely exists to help users who have problems, or who are attempting to make personalized customizations outside of the supported feature set.

There are lots of users that we literally never hear from, because they use the plugins and setup their site without any problems, without delving into external customizations, so never need to ask questions here.

So the forum tends to be a little lopsided.

The plugins are extremely flexible, provides many options and features, and for most users that is enough. Some people like to extend things further, and we offer an extensibility framework for those users. But they are the exception, rather than the rule. You can pretty easily setup an attractive, functional website with zero coding necessary.

That one recommended tutorial is here:
http://ce3wiki.theturninggate.net/doku. … publishing

Here is an example gallery:
http://ce3.theturninggate.net/galleries … slideshow/

The titles under the thumbnails are pulled from IPTC data; you have two rows to work with here and may output any metadata (IPTC or EXIF). Looking at the large images, you can also see two additional metadata slots, one above the image (the heading) and one below (the caption).

And the large view thumbnails are disabled in this demonstration, but there is an option to display a horizontal row of thumbnails at the bottom of the screen while viewing large images.

Fewer files in the filmstrip, or work with a filmstrip of JPGs instead of RAW files (then substitute the RAWs back in for export as a final step).

Don't know whether things are "back to normal" yet for your sites, Dougc, but I just had a click on the both of them and they came right up. If you're still experiencing issues, it may be worth clearing your browser cache, quitting and restarting the browser to give the page loads a fresh slate.

Because a website should never interfere with the functionality of the web-browser.

Recording prior conversation for reference ...

The latter.

Not giving us a link.

In general, if you want things higher on the page, then reduce the Margin-top and Margin-bottom sliders for the block, the grid, etc.

we supported our own shopping cart, and FoxyCart. FoxyCart is a generic shopping cart service and not a fulfillment option, though, so they offer nothing over our own system.

My records show downloads on the order. I presume you've received your message containing access to the downloads.

If you follow the instructions to install, then the plugins will work:
http://ce3wiki.theturninggate.net/doku. … stallation

Because you double-clicked first, you may need to search your system for bad copies of the plugins that may be interfering with the installation.

Thanks, Rich! So glad to hear we've inspired you. Careful with Twitter Bootstrap, though; I had a play with it going into CE3 development and decided it wasn't the framework for me, so built the CE3 framework from scratch. If you start trying to rope parts of Twitter Bootstrap into it, I can't make any guarantees about the continued fidelity of the space-time continuum. Frankly, I think the thing is overrated. That's just me, though.