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#101 General » Markdown backslash escape not working » 2014-09-17 17:38:01
- richam
- Replies: 8
In trying to use markdown to specify a link with a URL that has embedded parentheses, I tried to use the "\" escape before the final parenthesis to avoid mis-interpretation of the ")" as a markdown control character. Using MOU translation to HTML, it worked. But when the markdown is translated on the site, the link is faulty. Here is the actual markdown text from my fragments folder:
[Gardelegen War Crime Wikipedia](http://tinyurl.com/my6kala)
[Gardelegen War Crime Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gardelegen_(war_crime\))
Here is the page in question: http://www.michaelrichardsphotography.com/services.php
I solved the problem with tinyURL, but left both links on the site in case you want to check them out. There are two "Gardelegen War Crime Wikipedia" links. The first works, the second does not.
I've had several email exchanges with the MOU CEO, Chen Luo. He claims his software is doing the markdown translation right, and it would seem so according to the Daring Fireball Syntax document. I'm not sure what engine TTG is using, but it may be worth looking into.
#102 Re: CE4 Stage » Panorama widths » 2014-09-14 01:07:52
My largest is 10580 x 600. It worked OK with CE3 Stage.
After fiddling around, and catching on to the aspect ratio effect of the placeholder, found out that my largest panorama comes out with excellent image quality if I go back to the original. So posted it at 28,095 x 1,484, with a placeholder of 5,936 x 1,484. Don't know what the pano-reel does to the images, but it works fine and loads fast: http://www.michaelrichardsphotography.c … -panorama/
#103 Re: CE4 Stage » compare tweny-twenty » 2014-09-14 00:58:10
I've had many questions about High Dynamic Range (HDR) processing. I use it in several high contrast situations. The twenty twenty gallery is a perfect way to illustrate it, and thanks for including it.
http://www.michaelrichardsphotography.c … -examples/
#104 Re: CE4 Stage » Panorama widths » 2014-09-09 15:03:31
My largest is 10580 x 600. It worked OK with CE3 Stage.
#105 Re: CE4 Showcase » Michael Richards Photography » 2014-08-30 16:47:06
Matt, I'm honored. Must admit, I'm a bit envious of the other showcase sites, whose owners seem to have a professional eye for graphics design. Have a great trip.
#106 Re: General » Custom Error Page Formatting » 2014-08-27 18:26:21
Kyle, In the meantime, I set up a "traps" album set, and moved the error, construction, and deleted traps inside the set. Also separated the errors by number. If you want to check further:
http://www.michaelrichardsphotography.c … -trap-400/
http://www.michaelrichardsphotography.c … -trap-401/
http://www.michaelrichardsphotography.c … -trap-403/
http://www.michaelrichardsphotography.c … -trap-404/
http://www.michaelrichardsphotography.c … -trap-500/
http://www.michaelrichardsphotography.c … struction/
http://www.michaelrichardsphotography.c … y-deleted/
Changed the .htaccess file accordingly, also with the index.html redirect files. Sorry confuse things with more changes, but due to a back problem, my doctor prescribed home rest for a few weeks. So I have too much time at the computer, and fiddle too much with the website. It has become a bit of a hobby horse.
#107 Re: General » CE3 Cleanup » 2014-08-27 00:26:19
Ben, thanks for the reply. I downloaded panic copies of all the _ce3 and ce3_ files to my hard disk and then deleted them on the site. There were 2,414 items totalling 14.5 mb. Didn't save a lot of space (although 14.5 mb is larger than my first hard disk some 30 years ago), but reduced the clutter quite a bit.
These are simply the old CE3 files renamed with _ce3. If you are confident that the migration was successful then they can be safely removed.
The purpose of leaving the old files (as renamed copies) rather than deleting them is to have some hope of reversing the migration if it went horribly wrong. We don't have a process to reverse the migration, however the files are there so that a process could be created if needed.
#108 Re: General » Custom Error Page Formatting » 2014-08-27 00:18:13
Kyle, FWIW, I set it up the lazy, simple way within galleries and haven't had a problem at all. Used publisher to install a Stage still image album called "error-trap" within galleries. (I tried to use just "error" but had some problems with that name.) Anyway, I put the following into the .htaccess file:
ErrorDocument 400 http://www.michaelrichardsphotography.c … rror-trap/
ErrorDocument 401 http://www.michaelrichardsphotography.c … rror-trap/
ErrorDocument 403 http://www.michaelrichardsphotography.c … rror-trap/
ErrorDocument 404 http://www.michaelrichardsphotography.c … rror-trap/
ErrorDocument 500 http://www.michaelrichardsphotography.c … rror-trap/
The page copy is:
"Oops, you made a wrong turn somewhere. [**Get back on the main road**](/)".
You can try it out if you want: www.michaelrichardsphotography.com/garbage
I did a similar setup for deleted albums and construction. For deleted, used the album name "my-deleted" as I had some problems with just "deleted". When I delete an album, I set up a folder with the name of the deleted album, and then add a small html re-direct routine called index.html, with the following:
<html>
<head>
<title>Redirect</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
window.location = "/galleries/my-deleted/"
//-->
</script>
</head>
</html>
If you want to try it out: www.michaelrichardsphotography.com/galleries/personal/stanley.
Also set up a "construction" album: www.michaelrichardsphotography.com/galleries/construction/. A simple html redirect with the name "index.html", added to an album under construction will execute the redirect before any album actions happen. I use this when an album or album set is undergoing extensive re-work. Note that the CE4 publisher option to hide albums or sets from Autoindex came in handy for all 3 albums.
#109 Re: General » CE3 Cleanup » 2014-08-25 15:33:44
Matt, the "panels" must have been something I added erroneously. It had some old HTML files and I deleted it all. Your reference doesn't specifically cover files with _ce3 appended: lib_ce3.php, index_ce3.php, gallery_ce3.xml, download_ce3.php, etc etc, where the equivalent file without the _ce3 exists at the same location. Is is safe to delete the _ce3 appended files?
#110 General » CE3 Cleanup » 2014-08-25 03:52:23
- richam
- Replies: 4
Having successfully upgraded to CE4, there are still a number of files left on the website that are obviously CE3. Many have files ending in _ce3. There is a "panels" folder at the root which still has outdated CE3 information. There are probably more folders and files that are no longer needed and can be discarded. Do you have a guide on how to accomplish a CE3 cleanup?
#111 Re: CE4 Showcase » Michael Richards Photography » 2014-08-25 03:30:30
Rod, thanks for the nice comments.
Kris, appreciate the correction; done. Hope there are not too many errors left.
#112 CE4 Showcase » Michael Richards Photography » 2014-08-24 19:15:40
- richam
- Replies: 7
I finally got the site converted from CE3 to CE4 and reasonably well cleaned up and polished. This is a strictly non-commercial site for personal use. I have currently 5,644 images posted. Most are just for sharing with family and friends, especially those we have met during the cruises we have been taking recently. The Military History and Holocaust galleries are meant to be educational and encourage viewers to keep the memories alive. www.michaelrichardsphotography.com
For the CE3 to CE4 conversion, I tried to employ KISS (keep it simple, stupid) and hold "arty" presentation and hacking to a minimum. I'm not much of an graphic artist, anyway. Just wanted a vehicle to allow viewers to easily navigate around the galleries. Found the Lime Spider theme to my liking and set that up for most of my templates. When there's a lot of text, such as the Wonders galleries, used a black on white theme for easy reading. For Stage HTML5 videos, used a black theme as I like to crop slideshow images the way I want, with aspect ratios determined by the image content. This way, the black bars/borders around irregular images are invisible against the background.
Have found several typos and miscellaneous errors, and I'm sure there are more on the site. Would appreciate you letting me know if you spot a problem.
Mike
#113 Re: General » Favicons and Mobile Icons » 2014-08-24 18:46:01
Fredy, Thanks for pointing out the typo. It's been corrected.
#114 Re: CE4 Showcase » Kyle Lucy Photography » 2014-08-23 23:40:09
Fredy, I checked Kyle's site as well as my own with Firefox and Chrome on the Mac. The favicons appear on the tab, not the address bar. I thought this was correct, but is that the way it's supposed to work? www.michaelrichardsphotography.com.
Hello Kyle, or Lucy, I don't know what is your first name.
I really like the layout so understated, very classy, and I love pictures too.
You must know that your favicons don't appear correcty in Firefox. Maybe this problem with ".htaccess" file.
Congratulations.
Fredy
#115 Re: General » Favicons and Mobile Icons » 2014-08-23 23:33:45
Kyle, thanks for the URL. After generating the favicons, found out I had to set up Pages plus all the templates with "no icon" for the apple-touch-icon as well as the favicon. Then installed the generated favicons at the root level and the generated HTML in index.php, after the <head> marker. Now it seems to work throughout the site: www.michaelrichardsphotography.com. Still getting PC'ers and Android'ers to check it out for me, but expect it will all work after getting all green on the favicon checker.
#116 Re: CE4 Showcase » Kyle Lucy Photography » 2014-08-23 23:15:21
Kyle, Very well done. Simple, elegant and beautiful.
#117 CE4 Stage » Panorama » 2014-08-08 16:47:47
- richam
- Replies: 1
CE3 Stage had the Reel Panorama option. Will there be such an option added to CE4 Stage? If not, are there other Pano options?
#118 Re: CE4 Publisher » Site broken after CE4 upgrade » 2014-08-08 00:03:56
Just a follow up. Got the site on track again by reverting to and old LR catalog, re-installing CE3, installing CE3 Pages and got that all working ala CE3. Then installed CE4 according to upgrade instructions and migrated. After this, switched back to the newest LR catalog. After selecting templates and otherwise setting up the album sets and albums, none of the photos show up, so have been selecting the albums for "mark to republish" and then "publish". This restores the photos, and everything seems to work. Of course, with a lot of photos, it will take a few days to get them all uploaded. Then it will still take a few days of polish with image ordering, thumbnail selection, and other fine tuning.
After it's all set up, definitely will set up a backup ttg-be on the server as well as my computer. Anyone following this thread, recommend you do the same, just in case.
Thanks again to Ben for the help and advice.
#119 Re: CE4 Publisher » Site broken after CE4 upgrade » 2014-08-07 00:11:24
Ben, appreciate your efforts on this. As far as tedious is concerned, another Homer Simpson moment: DOH! I disabled and deleted the CE3 plug-in, so would have to revert to a two week old LR catalog to recover it. So it looks like catalog recovery, reinstall CE3, re-publish images, establish CE4 plug-in, migrate, and then somehow re-do two week's LR changes. Your idea seems easier. A lot of the tedium would be re-publishing images. This would take a lot of time, but with minimal user intervention.
#120 Re: CE4 Publisher » Site broken after CE4 upgrade » 2014-08-06 17:55:29
Ben, thanks. It looks like any solution will be tedious, so would appreciate the new publisher.
#121 Re: CE4 Publisher » Site broken after CE4 upgrade » 2014-08-06 14:14:58
You're right that I did the ttg-be installation incorrectly. I've worked a lot on the CE4 galleries, and would like to avoid re-migrating if possible. Any idea when the Publisher update will be available?
There are two ways of fixing this:
1. Remove all of the albums and album sets from your CE4 Publisher Instance. If asked to leave them on the service, then select to leave them.
2. Migrate your galleries again from CE3or alternatively, wait for an update to the Publisher that re-creates albums and album sets if not found on the server when editing them. If you haven't worked much on your albums post-migration, then I suggest migrating them again.
I'd still like to know whether you accidentally removed the data directory, most likely by replacing the entire ttg-be directory.
#122 CE4 Publisher » Site broken after CE4 upgrade » 2014-08-06 04:21:33
- richam
- Replies: 14
Website: http://www.michaelrichardsphotography.com. It was working well before attempting an upgrade. Installed the latest CE4 bundle upgrades, and lost access to the galleries. I realize this is probably a simple error, but can't seem to sort it out. Authentication seems ok with this message: 'The authentication check was successful'. But always get this when trying to re-publish:
'Unable to perform action: uploadRendition.
Server response:
{"message":"The album could not be found for id 34026"}'
And when trying to access a gallery:
'{"status":"error","message":"The album could not be found."}'
#123 Re: CE4 Stage » Videos won't play » 2014-08-01 15:53:49
you need to change the name of the videos folder to videosrc
http://ce4.theturninggate.net/docs/doku … deo_online
Rod, thanks for the input. I had been setting up HTML5 video ala CE3. CE4 is completely different, and I like it better -- thanks to TTG for the modifications and upgrade. I finally got a video working and will continue to set up and polish the site.
#124 CE4 Stage » Videos won't play » 2014-07-31 02:54:51
- richam
- Replies: 4
Can't seem to get videos to play in Stage CE4 as I could in CE3. Tried several setups and templates but no luck. Tested videos off line and they are ok -- the same ones as CE3.
Link: http://www.michaelrichardsphotography.c … slideshow/
Lightroom panel:
Website video setup:
#125 CE4 Stage » CE4 Stage Templates » 2014-07-29 19:04:35
- richam
- Replies: 1
The starter templates for other CE4 modules are very useful. Will there be similar templates for CE4 Stage?