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not sure if dropping the html for a contact form into the copy area will work. I tried simply copying the code from my contact page and pasting it into the copy area of a new page. The form seemed to work but it made weird things happen in the Page Copy area in the page editor.
This is exactly what's happening to me today! Eventhough my customised page looked good, I returned to the page editor & weird things happened & I re-saved (without making any changes) & it broke my page.
Is it an html incompatibility issue? I validated & cleaned up my html code in the hope that it would fix the weird things but to no use.
How can I determine the version/flavour of html that backlight/pages is using? The reason I ask is because I then tested an out of the box backlight/pages page & the validator complained (about propietary usage) & gave errors. So I'd like to be able to use the correct validator for whatever backlight is using & hope to pin point the problem in my (old) html code.
Thanks!
Deirdre
Okay, so maybe I'm a bit more with it today! I just did a bit of googling & found
http://www.barbeephoto.com/blog/backlight/
So I can place .html in the 'Main Copy', 'Tray 01 Copy' & 'Tray 02 Copy' of each page! Got it (I think - I've still to experiment with it ?)
Thanks again Rod!!
Hi again,
Thanks Rod - I had a read of some of your articles & linked to articles yesterday. I was intending to experiment & play around with TTG responsive grid but I couldn't find out how to integrate a custom .html page to backlight.
Daniel guided me on how to include a .css file (advanced design options) but I can't find anything similar for .html pages. I've never used CE4 but in my research I've come across 'Page Copy' which appears to be what I'm looking for in backlight. Is there a backlight equivalent of 'Page Copy' where I can attach my own .html & integrate it with backlight?
Many thanks,
Deirdre
Thanks very much again Rod & Daniel.
You've just presented me with a good deal of reading & research to do! Much appreciated!
I'll probably be back with more questions :-)
I don't know why but I've only just seen your latter suggestion now Rod (while I was looking for something else)! And thanks for the link. That's exactly what I'm looking for & it's not so much work as to be unworkable. Thanks a mill!
Hi Ben,
I've never used CE4 & have no idea how it works. I originally created my own website, mainly winging it. It was so long ago (10yrs) that the little bit of css or html that I learned, I've since forgotten.
I only recently discovered Backlight as I searched for a LR plugin that would create responsive galleries. So, when I discovered Backlight + Pages it gave me the idea to rewrite my entire website & not just the galleries. And in my quest for design I've found ideas like the one I originally proposed.
Anyway, back to the drawing board :-)
Many thanks,
Deirdre
Thanks Ben!
So, if I understand correctly I'll really have to have Blog, FAQ, Testimonials etc as Menu items? And just the galleries as galleries?
There isn't a function on pages or anything that allows me to have a pretend top-gallery looking icon, say placed beside a real top-gallery, but instead of leading me into a gallery, it brings me to a blog or html page?
I just thought it would look nice & uniform if I could place all topics (FAQ, Blog, Real Weddings etc) into those neat little square boxes (top-galleries).
Many thanks,
Deirdre
Thanks Daniel,
Just back after bank holiday weekend so sorry for the delayed reply.
Thanks for your website link. It looks good. I like how your Greeting card looks like a top-level gallery but when clicked it takes the user to greeting card info. How did you achieve that? Is it using theatre module?
Many thanks,
Deirdre
Hi Jon,
Great work & thanks for sharing.
Can I ask - how did you setup your 'Autumn Arrives' & 'Grovely Wood' sections on your home page? They look like galleries on the home page but then they link to your respective blog pages. Is that the custom work you mentioned or it is achievable with backlight + pages + wordpress?
I'm trying to do something similar but am not all that familiar with website code so my ability to do anything custom would be very limited.
Many thanks in advance.
Deirdre
Hi there,
Apologies if my question is incorrectly formed.
The easiest way to explain might be through example.
Here's my website http://www.deirdrelangan.com/TTG-TEST/DLP/
There are 2 albums; Testimonials & Wedding Images.
Wedding Images Gallery works fine. But what I'd like is a Testimonials page plus some others eg. Blog, FAQs etc. that displays like an album but when clicked on, brings up the respective testimonials, blog & FAQ pages.
Is it possible to do what I'm proposing? (It doesn't look possible but I still don't really know what I'm doing with backlight/pages!).
Many thanks in advance,
Deirdre
Daniel - thanks a million. I've just successfully implemented your code! Perfect :-)
Thanks again guys. But Mark, using virtual copies was way easier than your suggestion :-)
I've been experimenting with this & getting this to work is harder than I anticipated.
So, I've got a wedding set of 420 images. 6 are virtual copies.
*) I selected all virtual copies, so 6 are selected. So far, so good. File names are AoifeAlan-079, AoifeAlan-085 .... AoifeAlan-380
*) I export these. I want to keep the filename as true to the original so after some experimenting the best option of 'rename' looks to be 'Custom name -original file number' so I enter AoifeAlan-v2
*) Exported file name are looking pretty good. They are AoifeAlan-v2-079, AoifeAlan-v2-085 .... AoifeAlan-v2-380
*) Before I export the entire set, I sort by filename. My 6 virtual copies are at the end of the pile. DOH!
*) I just used my old gallery & exported everything the old way. This is a real swings & roundabout project :-|
Any of you guys that are good at maths, is there a naming convention that will place my master copy & duplicated copy side by side when sorted? There don't seem to be a way to rename AoifeAlan-079-v2, otherwise that would be a solution.
My work is mainly weddings so working with lots of images & need a process. I want to avoid making (too much) work for myself or manually renaming or loading into photoshop etc.
Many thanks,
Deirdre
Thanks Mark. I think it was Rod who also said something similar, in his advice to not use virtual copies. But, when you say that, is there an easy alternative? I know about exporting & reimporting but is there a straight forward way to have 2 copies of the same image in LR that doesn't involve jiggery-pokery? I can't see a way to copy a file in LR?
Thanks Matthew. So the only solution then really is to do as you suggested in the first place - and that is, make sure the files are exported from LR with unique file names ( and not virtual copies).
I used PS to create galleries up until now so I don't know anything about LR Web/galleries but I'm surprised their virtual copy handling hasn't caused problems for them to date. Maybe they will fix it once it impacts themselves directly!
Thanks again,
Deirdre
Thank you both very much!
Daniel - I will try that out. And thank you for giving me the details on how to implement it. Much appreciated.
Matthew - thank you very much for that elaborate explanation. And for your time & effort. I appreciate how much time creating email replies consume!
So, I get it now why the handling is poor from LR. And implementing Client Response is on my to do list once I've created my backlight website so the issue will continue. But, as a half way house, can publisher not at least use the _v1, _v2 etc bit from the LR Metadata so that it at least displays different versions of the same image with a unique identifier?
And thank you for the workaround. It's a bit of a nuisance but at least it's a solution.
Cheers!,
Deirdre
Que? A limitation of Lightroom? My understanding is that Backlight is a plugin for LR, no? I would've thought that this was a very basic requirement. LR handles virtual copies sufficiently well when used with other gallery software, namely it's own or PS. All I'm looking for is software that distinguishes versions of files. When I export 2 versions of 1 image file in LR it works perfectly well for my needs & that is, there are 2 files & they have different names.
If I have a virtual copy of JessicaPat-008, then it exports JessicaPat-008 & JessicaPat-008-1 in Lightroom & is handled the same in PS. That's all I'm asking of publisher - that it handles & accepts the names as they are given. It looks like publisher truncates the name or can't handle it.
I don't understand why it looks to be a LR issue to you but a Publisher one to me. In the instance say of an exported image file & its virtual copy, Publisher gets passed 2 files from LR but displays them both with the same name. How is that not a publisher issue & something that can be addressed?
Or am I missing an obvious solution? I don't mind changing my naming convention or ways of doing something if this can be solved but if not, then I would've thought this is a fairly serious flaw with publisher & its galleries.
Some custom.css does the trick:
.pswp__counter {
display: none;
}
Thanks Daniel,
Can you tell me where I add this custom.css file please? Or which file needs modifying to add these lines of code?
I guess this one is tricky due to how Lr handles filenames. Two workarounds come to my mind right now:
1) Did you try to rename the bw image to something like JessicaPat-008bw
2) You might want to try the {filename} token for the caption
1)Thank you, but that for me, is not a solution. I have many galleries with hundreds of images in each so I'm not going to manually search & rename all virtual copies.
2)I've used tried using {filename} as Thumbnails Metadata 01 & 02 (in album settings) but the duplicate name shows ie. JessicaPat-008 for each instance of the same file. I've since experimented in LR with different naming conventions, trying to create a unique filename/number for each exported file & nothing works. I even used the original given filename but same problem with virtual copies.
Hi there,
Thanks for your replies. Here is a link: http://www.deirdrelangan.com/TTG-BL/Jes … essicapat/
1) Yes I am using LR virtual copies eg. image number 8 in the above gallery. I don't want to use a new naming preset because when the customer reverts to me with a list of images they'd like to include in their wedding album I want to be able to quickly reference it in LR. I don't want to have to cross reference publisher with LR.
2) I don't think I'm referring to the cell number in the grid. In the above gallery, when I click on any of the thumbnails, a single large image
is displayed & because I've chosen to display 100 images per page, a sequence number eg 1/100, 2/100 is shown in the top left hand corner. This is the numbering that I want switched off. I don't want any info, other than JessicaPat-xxx shown to the client.
Not to labour the point, but in link above there are two JessicaPat-008 images shown to the customer, which is in itself confusing. And when thumbnails are clicked the first JessicaPat-008 is displayed with sequence/cell number 8/100 & the second version (virtual copy) as 9/100.
So, ideally I'd like the x/100 to be removed entirely as it serves no purpose but to confuse. And I'd like to display JessicaPat-008 & JessicaPat-008-1 as per my LR galleries on my current/old website. Or if there's a naming solution in LR that handles the virtual copies in an effective naming way (that I don't have to cross ref between LR & publisher) then I'm happy to use it going forward, but please tell me what it is.
Many thanks, Deirdre
Hi there,
I've searched for this topic in the forum so I hope I haven't overlooked it.
I'm very new to Backlight so probably shouldn't be posting live galleries to clients when I haven't fully tested & understood the software. But, I'm using it because my other galleries aren't responsive & mobile friendly.
So, two issues have arisen for me leading to confusion for both customer & myself:
My process is this: Before exporting I rename all files in LR to CustName-SeqNumber.jpg (eg. Elaine-001 to Elaine-100) Then I export & display filename in publisher. All goes well until the thumbnail display.
1) Customer seems to spot the sequence number (eg 1/100) easier than the Elaine-001 number. So, question is - is it possible to turn the sequence number off? I only want customer to see their custom filenames.
2) In LR I have two versions of Elaine-005. One version is in colour & the other B&W. In a regular LR export, these will automatically be named Elaine-005 & Elaine-005-1. In publisher they are both named Elaine-005. So there is nothing to distinguish the colour from the B&W files. Is there a solution to this?
Many thanks,
Deirdre
P.S. I've just seen the 'Subscribe to this topic' option so will be grateful & respond to any feedback.
Thanks Rod. I created a new TTG-TEST area as I have some live galleries in TTG-BL (maybe not such a good idea without yet fully understanding software!)) & when I started playing around with new menu items I saw they were propagated to my live galleries in TTG-BL!
Hi there,
Apologies. I didn't realise anyone had responded as I was expecting an email notification.
In the meantime I've upgraded to v 1.05. I've set the masthead background colour back to black & added a new 'Blog' item to my menu. 'Blog' page is showing with black masthead but the others 'Contact', 'About' are still showing as red.
I'm working on Mac with Chrome browser. When I loaded http://www.deirdrelangan.com/TTG-TEST into Firefox it works okay - all black. I also tried it on my Windows laptop & it's showing with all mastheads black, which is correct.
I've tried new Chrome browser sessions on my Mac & still many menu tabs showing as red. Is it a cache issue?
Re Galleries. Yes directory exists with 777 permission. No content yet but I was expecting a dir listing or similar & not a 403 Forbidden error. This doesn't bother me so much as I'll be creating galleries & will probably overcome it.
Many thanks, Deirdre
Hi there,
My pages so far are all using the Backlight Standard Page template. In that template I've set the Masthead background colour to red.
The peculiar thing is that the background colour is showing red on some pages but not others, eventhough they're all using the same template. Any suggestions? I've cleared out the cache, just incase it was doing something peculiar.
You can see it in action here :
http://www.deirdrelangan.com/TTG-TEST
Menu items 'Search' & 'Blog' are showing red, while 'About' & 'Contact' are showing black. Galleries has never worked since installation. I guess this is a separate install issue?
Thanks in advance,
Deirdre
Thanks Rod. That's how I have it currently setup but I think (if it's possible) that I need to install it to a completely different directory & test area to keep the environments totally separate. I'll give it a go & see if it works & I'll worry about getting it to my live site (www.mydomain.com) at a later date.
Thank you!
Hi again, I've just realised that anything I've done with new menu items etc is now showing up in existing backlight galleries. Eek!!
I really need help & instructions on how to establish a new independent TEST environment that is totally separate to my existing website.
Many thanks in advance!!
Deirdre
Hi there,
My existing website is http://www.deirdrelangan.com/
I've installed Backlight & Pages to http://www.deirdrelangan.com/TTG-BL
Can anyone give me good practise instructions on how I go about setting up a TEST environment please? I'd like to create a brand new site with this domain but I need to create & test it thoroughly before implementing onto the live site.
I've tried creating http://www.deirdrelangan.com/TTG-BL/TEST but am getting problems with menu items looking for albums instead of pages, eg. my Contact menu item seems to be looking for album http://www.deirdrelangan.com/TTG-BL/TEST/contact/ when in fact it should be looking for a page http://www.deirdrelangan.com/TTG-BL/TEST/?page=contact/
I'm wondering if the problem lies with my Company URL & Site URL settings. I've changed them a few times. How should these 2 fields be named? If you could give examples that would be great.
Hoping to hear from someone!
Many thanks.
Deirdre