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If you want to create nested indexes or separate indexes for portraits, family, model work, etc., then you'll also need autoindex. If you're happy with your Galleries page containing all your galleries (no categorization), then you're all set.

Yes and yes to both your questions

You don't need to download a Markdown program to use Markdown Syntax in the TTG text blocks. Just type using the syntax.
You can refer to Mark Gruber's syntax tutorial, look at the samples included in all the pages of a default TTG Pages engine, or copy the text in this Markdown Tutorial and paste it into any TTG markdown enabled text block. Markdown enabled text blocks all have (md) next to them.

Also, see this: http://community.theturninggate.net/top … down-help/

rod

glad it's working. Hope you have a happy holiday too.

rod

In the Site Info control pane in Pages, in the navigation setting, just add another link. There's room for 10 items as is and you can add more by using the Custom Nav. field.

Let's say you're creating a Videos gallery page. Add Videos as the label and your intended destination as the target. Let's assume you want to put your video gallery in the root of the site so the target would be /videos.

Create an Autoindex page to hold all the videos, export it and name it "videos".

Upload the entire exported autoindex "videos" folder to the root.

Now, when you click on the Videos link you created in Pages, you'll be taken to your classy new videos page.

You've already got your video gallery autoindex page up and running so you could simply create a menu item for that in Pages and target it at wherever it is now on your site.

You'll also probably want to add that Videos menu item to all your galleries, indexes, and video pages you've created. The easiest way to do that is to implement phplugins. It's actually a lot easier than it sounds and Matt's already included the needed navigation code in the phplugins.php file that gets created when you enable phplugins. All you need to do is modify it to match your own navigation.

(I highly suggest you enable phplugins and fill in the "Server Path to PHPlugins..." field in all your galleries, Stage pages, and autoindexes no matter what. It won't do anything until you add or enable any code inside the file, but it will save you a bunch of time later on--you won't have to reexport all those pages just to enable the phplugins)

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For all those other menu items I have on my site, I first created pages for them. The Workshops, and Lessons pages are both autoindex pages. As are the Articles and Books page and the Newsletters page. I'm just not using the grid in either. I added those pages before Stage CE2 was available, but if I was to add other similar pages, I'd use Stage instead.

Like I mentioned, my Workshops page is another Autoindex. You'll notice that the menu items there differ from the main page. Those pages are all either more Autoindex pages or Stage pages. I don't remember which is which at the moment. Many of them were created before Stage CE2 was released.

And I manage all my menus with phplugins. One set for the main part of the site and another for the Workshops section.

On teaching, I've begun putting together materials to start teaching TTG plugins to my workshop clients. For those just starting out, they really don't need to know any coding at all. Right out of the box, anybody can have a really nice basic website. Once they get comfortable using the plugins then they can start adding the bells and whistles. In fact, I started with just the Highslide gallery so I could finally (and easily) post some image galleries.
I sort of got carried away after that.....

rod

here you go: http://theturninggate.net/2011/12/disab … text-menu/

the galleries support display of metadata, including EXIF. You can even customize what's shown by creating your own metadata display presets.

I was thinking about that too. It might be easier to do in the long run rather than hacking the form after export.

or are you talking about the contact form in the .lrwebengine components/ folder?

Take a look at the Client Response Gallery . You can integrate video via Vimeo  (see documentation here: http://wiki.theturninggate.net/doku.php … tup_usage)

You can control the number of columns by designing the gallery to a fixed pixel width and then size the thumbnails accordingly. There is, however, a limit of 1000 images each gallery.

Unless you choose php dependent features, the gallery will export as html.

It could be. Or you could be using a template for a version of the gallery that you don't have installed.

Be sure to follow the installation instructions exactly, paying careful attention to the engine file names.

If that doesn't help, could you be more specific as to the error page you're seeing?

also, did you mean you're seeing the error when trying to run the engine or when trying to use a template with the Highslide CE2 engine?