Community @ The Turning Gate

I'm updating my site, www.lumiograph.com and had images to left of the text on About and Services (et. al.) pages  Now it looks like the option is only above or below the text.  Am I missing a setting?

I'll be putting together a website for a client using TTG galleries. (Yes, they'll be purchasing the galleries).

I want to know if anyone has a contract they've drafted for clients for website services, or a checklist for what they need from the client for the project.

Any help appreciated.

Thanks

Reid

I was working with a client yesterday and after I put in absolute links for pages, the other pages displayed the default site page from his ISP.  It's as though the gallery was acting like a web browser.  Is this supposed to happen?  It took a while to figure out what was going on. I guess a work around it to wait until the right before export to add the links.

Is this correct?

Thanks,

Reid

I'm getting a consistent amount of spam.  I'm tired of it.  Been going on for months.

Is there an easy way to integrate a captcha, which we all hate?  Some are so hard, I give on a site.  I would like to implement an image based one using my images, but open to solutions that integrate easily on my site and doesn't look like either a Mensa or nursery school test.

Thanks,

Reid

I teach Lightroom and will be teaching an output class where I'd like to highlight TTG plug ins.

I would like to create a list for the class, as well as for this forum on TTG Best Practices, Tips, Suggestions, and Gotchas based on our collective experience. So if you have any, please list them! I'll start:

1. The designer of TTG plugins can't change Palette names, they are baked-in by Adobe, so settings may not appear where you think they should.  Come up with a mnemonics or other tricks to remember were settings are.  For example, think of Color Palette and Copy (as in text) as both starting with "C", so you'll find text under Color Palette.

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. 

3.  Back up all your Lightroom presets so your TTG created templates will be saved in case you overwrite them:

Windows:
C:\Users\[user name]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Lightroom

Mac
//Users/[user name]/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Lightroom/ folder

4. Make a master template for your galleries.  Then when you need to add a new gallery you just need to fill in the Album Title and add text to the page.

5. If you want your galleries to show in a particular order, start off with a number, including a zero before single digits ( i.e. 01, 02, 03)  so 1 and 11 won't be next to each other.

6. To help your site be found by search engines, follow the Search Engine Optimization (SEO) naming conventions found at http://ce3wiki.theturninggate.net/doku. … zation_seo

7. You must refresh the gallery (Cmd/Ctrl-R) to see settings change.  Sometimes a refresh won't show your changes.  In that case, re-save your gallery and then you'll see your changes.

That's a start.  Looking forward to hearing from others.

Thanks,

Reid