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I'm wanting to remove the tray in my Search page or at least remove the gibberish. I created a new page template, named it and made it one column and saved it. When I navigate to Assign Templates, the new template won't show up as an option for Search. What am I doing wrong?
PS, using this: <img alt="Jim" src="http://coyotepixel.net/backlight/designer?c=page&a=image&p1=1" style= "width:400px;" class="float-left" />
Can I change the "float-left" to float-right or float-center when needed? And is the "Jim" the Title name in the Images list? I inserted it there w/o knowing whether I should or not.
Seems to work now.
Oh oh, I just scrolled down the View Image page and found the url at the bottom under my image. I hadn't gone that far and had copied the wrong URL.
Thanks, Rod. I see the slash. I had gone to Uploaded Images and clicked on the Title named Jim and copied that url. Here's how it looks:
http://coyotepixel.net/backlight/design … image&p1=1
Here is the url for Uploaded images:
http://coyotepixel.net/backlight/design … ist_images
The slash is there in both the list and image url. Should I remove the slash? Or use the structure that you use?
I know nothing about html. I notice that your url has "page" in it and mine has "view" written in it. Does that also make a difference? I was following the instructions above that Tom gave above: "The URL is copied and pasted from the utility."
Is there a different way to insert the image into the copy area?
Not knowing anything about html, I read the instructions above. I uploaded an image through Backlight utility, I copied the url and inserted it into the line between the " " :
<img alt="Jim" src="http://coyotepixel.net/backlight/designer/?a=view_image&p1=1" style= "width:200px;" class="float-left" />
and inserted it into the copy area. I get a small blue line when I go to my site>about. Did I leave something out or not insert the url in the right place of the html?
I've created my first album set. All went well. But in the Galleries page, the Album Set name looks like it has smallish black writing across the white name of the set. I have black background with white font.
http://coyotepixel.net/galleries/
Also, how can I assign an image/photo to the Album Set instead of the description text?
I got the pull down menu figured out to where I can link a pull down (if that's what it's called) to an album in my Galleries. I want to have a pull down link to a set of albums. For instance, on rodbarbee.com, I click on Galleries>Landscape Galleries and it takes me to a page rodbarbee.com/galleries/1-landscapes where there a few albums to select. Did you create an Album Set in Lightoom called 1-landscapes then link the pull down menu to that?
Thanks, Rod. I'll give it a go.
I'm a user with not so much time on my hands . I'd love to have a pull-down galleries navigation like Rod has on his site. I think I could figure it out eventually, but maybe there's a tutorial somewhere to guide me through the steps. My trial and error method involves mostly error at this point in the learning curve.
I also found that I had to pick font color for the "Search Photos" text just above the search bar in Search using the headings font properties.
Thanks, Rod. So, if I got this right, when the text in Copy or Tray columns on Pages "About, Search, Contact", etc. starts with #, its font color is determined by Designer>Templates>Page Templates>Design>Typography>Headings Font Properties>Headings (color picker).
I think that when you last clicked on my site, I had already changed the Copy text to start with **
(asterisks) so it was appearing as white against the dark background. I see that when it started with #, it's color was determined by Headings Font Properties where the color was selected as a brownish color.
I found that I had the Page main copy line beginning with #. Don't know where that came from. I deleted that and used ** on either end of the line as **Tray 01** in Tray 01 Copy does. That did it.
What do the **...** things do? They are there in the initial settings.
Thanks for your reply, Rod.
PS.
I've gone to Design Template>Standard Page>edit>Main Column. I can change the background color but when I select white for copy color, no change happens after save changes.
I'm new to Backlight and web design in general. I'm slogging through and learning by trial and error.
I have changed the background color on the Standard Page template to a chocolate color. I'm using this in my Home, About and Contact pages.
Somehow I've managed to change the copy font color also. And now I can't seem to find where to change it back to white. Tray #1 font is white, but what I take to be the main column is showing as dark font color.
Not sure of my terminology here. A future help page with terminology would be great! Looking forward to basic tutorial.
jim