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Yesterday I was preparing my first albums with Backlight....amazing how fast and simple is now to prepare templates and publish images!!...I still have CE4 installed in LR, but I think that I will remove it during the next weeks....however....I found a problem with the presentation of albums in the Galleries page. According to Mathew, one should find something like this:

http://backlight.theturninggate.net/galleries/

however, in my case I end with this:

http://backlight.agustinbolzan.com.ar/galleries/

i.e. tittles in the bottom and no place for long texts.......I wonder why?

...and, the text in the Page remains always the same "Lorem ipsum......", although I changed it......that's also funny.....

Agustin

P.S. Recent discovery: if I change the page template used in the the Galleries Page nothing changes!...seems that there is a problem with this Page that cannot be modified at all!.....Maybe I have to delete it an start from scratch?

As far as I understood, one can use goggle fonts instead of the ones that come with Backlight. Following the instructions, I inserted "@import url(https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Josefin+Sans:400,100,300,600,100italic,300italic,400italic);" in the "Google Fonts @import Statement (optional)"  box in Typography, and then "Josefin Sans" in the box corresponding to "Prepend Font-family w/" , but the results were........nothing happening (I even tried "Josefin" without Sans).  The point is that I am trying to find a font similar to the one I am using with my  current CE4 web page (http://agustinbolzan.com.ar/english/index.php), and at least some google fonts approach such design for the identity (agustin bolzan || photography: thin and rounded letters). What am I doing wrong with the fonts?

Agustin

My  website involves three levels: one is the "root" that opens a page with  a small set of pictures and a short  a menu ("Spanish/English"), and two sublevels each one corresponding to either the Spanish or the English version of the web site (at least it is the current CE4 site) that includes the traditional menu and the different albums of pictures.  I would like to know if with Backlight is it possible to copy templates from one level to the other, so that I do not need to start each level from scratch (only change parts of text from one language to the other) and can avoid possible mistakes when writting the templates for each level (root, English, Spanish).  I am particularly interested in maintainig the same design for pages, menu and albums for the different levels. I know that I could open each level side by side as admin and use copy&paste but this is a tedious work and prone to errors....

Hope I have been not too confusing  with my question...

Agustin

I have installed backlight yesterday in a subdomain in order to play with it before removing my actual site (made with CE4) and replaced it with the new backlight version. Up to now, I can say that backlight is amazing and so easy to use that I love it!....no more long times within Lightroom to create or modify each page or gallery!......but I have two questions:

a) what about Publisher?.....If I install the new version of Publisher in LR, will it be possible to still manage my CE4 site?. What about the albums that I created in LR for CE4?. I find no clear indication about this. Is it possible to install the new Publisher and manage both CE4 and Backlight albums? Or should I have both versions of Publisher?...or.......

b) My current site uses Stage for the entrance page and from the first page one can select either English or Spanish for entering in the site (I have three instances of ttg-be, one at the root level, and the two others at the [english] and [spanish] subdirectories (see www.agustinbolzan.com.ar). I know that the Stage instance is not available at this moment, but at least I would like to know how  to proceed with Backlight in order to reproduce my bilingual site.

Agustin

I made two  templates, one with Stage for publishing the gallery slideshow of the Home page and another for the images in the galleries. The first one was called "pages" and the second one "ingles". The problem appears because I uploaded first "ingles" for the galleries and afterwards "pages" for the Home page, and when I tried to edit the "Home page" gallery, the first template Publisher took was "ingles" and set the a number of images per page = 25. When I switched and selected the second template (the correct one) "pages", Publisher insisted with 25 images per page, so it published a  normal gallery, instead of "all in one page". It looks like Publisher reads the templates in alphabetic order and takes the settings according to the first one, irrespective what one does after......my solution was to change the name of "pages" to "apages" and all went fine......I wonder if this is a bug in Publisher......

Agustin