Community @ The Turning Gate

Finally managed to implement some things and finish most parts. The biggest change is my new domain:

--> http://www.globetrotter.one (the old one will be shut down in a few weeks)

Some things I have done:

1.) Add a "picture of the week" @ the front page
-- Export 53 images you would like to show in a new folder (called mine IOTW) and rename them from 1 to 53

-- Add the following code to the PHPlugins file

/* Image of the week */
$image_folder = "/IOTW/";
$file_type = ".jpg";
$week= date('W');
$image_name = $image_folder . $week . $file_type;
/* Image of the week */

-- use this code to get the image (page)

<Center><b>Image of the week</b><br>
<img src="<?php echo $image_name; ?>" >
</Center>

2.) my custom CSS file

/*Center image captions during slideshow*/
.pswp__caption__center {
	font-size: 0.95rem;
	text-align: center;
	padding: 0.95rem;
}
/*Center image captions during slideshow*/

/*Background transparent*/
main {
	background-color: rgba(1,1,1,0);
}

	.masthead,
	nav,
	.main, .page__main,
	.page__tray[data-position="T1"],
	.page__tray[data-position="T2"] {
		background-color: rgba( 255, 255, 255, 0.5 );
}
/*Background transparent*/

/*Border Tray left*/
.page__tray[data-position="T1"] {
	border-left: 3px solid rgba( 255, 255, 255, 0.5 );
}
/*Border Tray left*/

/*Show scrollbars to avoid side shift*/
html {
    overflow: -moz-scrollbars-vertical;
    overflow-y: scroll;
}
/*Show scrollbars to avoid side shift*/

3.) Encoded my "contact" mail within the code instead of using the contact form

I know that there are captions missing, working on it. I also experienced some strange behaviour while in mobile mode (single page slideshow for a few pictures instead of Photoswipe. As stated above I am open for any suggestion

yeah, was talking about the control panel. Glad you could fix it

Yeah, I think so. Create an "Album Template" and under "Large Image Presentation" choose "Presentation Type: Single-Image Pages" followed by the settings you can set a bit down.
Regarding the caption, you can set them also within this setup menu. Just scroll up to "Image Settings" and you will find them under "Image Metadata". Don't know about your needs, just try it

Hi Philippe,

the problem is the different way the browsers have been coded. I did the same test with the Backlight test page (IE 11 and Firefox 48.0.2) and have not seen any noticeable differences. Of course it could depend on different browser releases and how they render pictures.
You can do this test on your own --> Open "http://test.vuedailleurs.com/galleries/ … e-0018.jpg" in different browsers and see how they render it (IE11 = upper left corner, FF 48.0.2 = center).

Matt had explained this in the previous thread but (I had the same problem) it's pretty hard to understand why this is happening. Each browser is rendering picture in a different way, interpret CSS files differently and (as stated above).
So the backlight base code IS different from the CE4 one and this could cause this "problems". Finding and eliminating the problem is nearly impossible. We all paid money for Backlight but to be honest it's worth its price.

If you have a look at the "Showcase Forum" and realise how many of them are using Backlight to sell their images this software is far away from being crap.

So in summary:
Matt and his team did a great job on Backlight (working out of the box) and it is impossible to render pictures with the same quality and size on every browser (even IE 10 and IE 11 render pictures differently).
If you feel bothered by this "problem" you can either insert a little text like "best display with Fireforx 48.0.2", switch to another software (maybe they are better but I don't think so) or just deal with it
I deal with it, you can't satisfy every single visitor of your page

Cheers
Moritz

PS: a good example for this --> http://breezi.com/how/browser-differences/

As fas as I understand the html header "lang" option only affects non-human things trying to read your page (search engines and stuff like that).

Agree!

You're absolutely right and I will stick with the button. Thanks

Uploaded via Backlight Panel?

They are stored inside "/backlight/data/designer/image_uploads" but without any extension. Maybe the names are stored inside the SQLite file.

I used CE4 before and trying to migrate my page to Backlight at the moment. Upgrading Backlight needs a bit of work but a CE4 update was way more complicated.
Due the fact you are using Backlight for a professional page (work) I would recommend to upgrade only when expecting new features or important bugfixes. Before every update perform a full backup in case of any trouble you might get into.

(Habe früher CE4 Pages, Publisher und Co benutzt, da war ein Update viel komplizierter! Kann nur empfehlen vor jedem Update ein vollständiges Backup zu machen um im Falle des Falles dieses einfach zurückspielen zu können. Wichtiger ist aber ein Update nur zu machen wenn wichtige Funktionen hinzukommen oder Bugfixes eingespielt werden.)

Salü, ja tu ich Forensprache ist aber eigentlich Englisch, denke aber Matt hat nichts dagegen wenn ich dir hier auf Deutsch helfe. Kann dir vermutlich eh nur bedingt helfen, aber probieren wir es mal. Die Gallerie wird ja per Lightroom "gefüttert" und dafür haste ja wahrscheinlich einen Veröffentlichungsdienst erstellt. Ist das so und falls ja, ist dort die Gallerie noch vorhanden?

@Matthew, Ben & Rod
Gonna try to help him on German in this specific case. If this is not okay for you we will switch to English.