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#126 Re: Backlight Support » Experiences setting up a Client Response album » 2017-11-20 15:50:48

FYI

The Chris & Amber album settings are 'enable password', 'unmanaged', 'enable feedback' and were added as a client (and user/pass set up in Backlight.
So that has no problems.
User is a**********m pass = 291017

#127 Re: Backlight Support » Experiences setting up a Client Response album » 2017-11-20 15:39:00

I just read the doc. and if I follow that and change my Publisher setting to Managed, then I get this message:

Something went wrong
Unable to find pageTemplate with ID 29. Try updating the selected template for the application. in EngineFactory.php on line 71

If I have it set to Unmanaged, and then set up the client, it becomes a private gallery requiring email and password.
I think there is a bug there.

Edit:
To clarify, setting Unmanaged and adding a client (plus re-entering user/pass in Backlight), gives me a proper, protected customer response album.

#128 Re: Backlight Support » Backlight web design help with placement, size, color etc of images an » 2017-11-20 15:20:39

Ok, I see.
So you mention once the Markdown is done, look at the source code as it appears in HTML, then replace the Markdown with HTML (assuming I want to start adding images and 'stuff'.
Is that a normal way of how it's done? Or can everything be done in Markdown?

Curious because I want to try to do this properly. I've already gone through all my pages and replaced <center> commands, after finding out they were deprecated.
Thanks for all your help!

#129 Backlight Support » Experiences setting up a Client Response album » 2017-11-20 10:57:47

peter
Replies: 8

Here is what I think is the correct process:

LR Publisher settings:

Base settings:
Choose the correct template

Features:
Enable Password
Enter user & password
(For Username, enter the user's actual email)

Integration:
Client Management = Unmanaged
Enable Feedback.

Once this is set up, 'Publish'.

In Backlight, using the Add Client process, you will need to re-enter the user's email address (seems strange, but need to do this in the two places. I can't remember if the password has to be re-entered.

#130 Re: Backlight Support » Backlight web design help with placement, size, color etc of images an » 2017-11-20 10:07:57

rod barbee wrote:
peter wrote:

Looks like I needed this inside <style> </style>

No, you don't.

I guess I thought I did because on the Home page, if I remove that first style set, I lose the graphic. If I put them in again, the graphic comes back. So, it's logic to me.
Yes, that home page is a mess because I didn't want to delete some of the code I put in. So I am using the Portfolio page as a fresh start.
Peter

So if someone can tell me why this page shows the code and not the intended image & text, I would be grateful.
Thanks.

http://www.marlajenkinsphotography.com/test/Portfolio/

#131 Re: Backlight Support » Backlight web design help with placement, size, color etc of images an » 2017-11-20 10:00:44

Now I don't know what the h is going on.
Starting from scratch, I typed this in Notepad++ set to ANSI:

<img src="http://www.marlajenkinsphotography.com/test/backlight/designer/?c=page&a=image&p1=23" width="200?
class="alignleft" alt="Text" title="Title text">

Pasted it into this page:
http://www.marlajenkinsphotography.com/test/Portfolio/
And I just see the code.
What is going on?
So frustrating...

Actually, I typed this in to Backlight directly.

#133 Re: Backlight Support » Backlight web design help with placement, size, color etc of images an » 2017-11-20 09:31:25

charlie.choc wrote:

BBEdit is a decent MAC editor fwiw.

I'm on PC

So I'm still having trouble with the copying of the text from your examples into Backlight Rod.
How do I remove the extra characters that are buried within?
Thanks.
Oh - I see, search & replacing " is all that's needed?

Edit
No wait. That didn't fix it.

#134 Re: Backlight Support » Backlight web design help with placement, size, color etc of images an » 2017-11-20 09:16:18

So there is no way of knowing easily (unless you place the text into Notepad++) about these 'gotchas'
I've cut & pasted lots of times and this is first time I've seen this problem - I don't paste into an editor, I just paste from the ref. web page directly into Backlight.
Do you see how frustrating it can be for us no-programmers?

#135 Re: Backlight Support » Backlight web design help with placement, size, color etc of images an » 2017-11-20 09:12:08

Ah - I see when I paste it into Notepad++ and switch to ansi I can see some extra stuff:
<img src=”http://www.marlajenkinsphotography.com/test/backlight/designer/?c=page&a=image&p1=23">
I'll work on it.
It's only taking me HOURS to plonk some text next to an image...

#136 Re: Backlight Support » Backlight web design help with placement, size, color etc of images an » 2017-11-20 08:42:44

Thanks Rod,
I'm trying this out, but I don't know why I am getting the code and not image when I cut & paste your sample into my page:

I used this as a base line:
UPDATE FOR ce4 and Backlight: <img src=”path-to-image/your-image.jpg” width=”300″ class=”alignleft” alt=”some descriptive text” title=”More descriptive text” style=”border: 2px red solid; padding: 0px; margin-top: 8px;“>

and edited it to this:
<img src=”http://www.marlajenkinsphotography.com/test/backlight/designer/?c=page&a=image&p1=23” width=”300″ class=”alignleft” alt=”some descriptive text” title=”More descriptive text” style=”border: 2px red solid; padding: 0px; margin-top: 8px;“>

This is my test page:
http://www.marlajenkinsphotography.com/test/Portfolio/

What did I do wrong?
Note: I was trying to do this before this post, with the 'float' command, but couldn't get it to work. Then I saw your page with the correct syntax. So that would explain one of my earlier failures!

#137 Re: Backlight Support » Backlight web design help with placement, size, color etc of images an » 2017-11-20 07:28:04

When I tried entering this CSS into a Page Copy:

<style>
img {
height: 100px;
vertical-align: middle;
]
</style>
<img src="http://www.marlajenkinsphotography.com/test/backlight/designer/?c=page&a=image&p1=23" >
<span>test</span>

My text appears under the image, not aligned to the side.
Entering this into one of the 'Try it yourself' pages on this site: https://www.w3schools.com/ will place the text to the right and middle (as expected).
Why is that?

#138 Re: Backlight Support » Backlight web design help with placement, size, color etc of images an » 2017-11-20 04:46:08

Ok thanks for all the comments.
Here's what I have learned:

'Deprecated' attributes should not be used. Here's a link on what they are, and why they shouldn't be used:
https://www.codehelp.co.uk/html/deprecated.html


Markdown is an easy way to change the typography, but it has rules in how it can be used.
For eg., it cannot be inside html, but can be used outside of it.

The links to sample usage is really, really helpful!

Cheers.

#139 Re: Backlight Support » Columns not all level » 2017-11-19 15:10:09

That worked great Rod.
I changed the example to 3 columns and got what I expected:
http://www.marlajenkinsphotography.com/test/home/
Cheers.

#140 Re: Backlight Support » Backlight web design help with placement, size, color etc of images an » 2017-11-19 14:44:14

Installed and ran MarkdownPad2 - it opens up with sample text on the left and in the window on the right, reports 'This view has crashed'

I try, but I just can't do this anymore...

#141 Re: Backlight Support » Backlight web design help with placement, size, color etc of images an » 2017-11-19 14:06:25

I tried it out and it may seem simple to you, but coding is still something I know so little about.
For eg. I added a couple of ## in front of some text, but it just displayed wysiwyg.

The problem was to do with the paragraph being contained within <center> & </center>

So what happens now, is I either have to research why that happened, or just go without the ## and use what was working:
<p style="font-size:20px"> </p>

I did spend a bit of time looking at that site (more than 5 mins.) and I could not find a solution to the above.

Again, I may come across as a bit dumb, but it's not something I do every day. In fact, once the website is done, I may not touch it for another 3 years. So the return on learning stuff that is like a foreign language to me, has little return long term.

I'm sure for the casual coder, the benefits are well worth it.

#142 Re: Backlight Support » Backlight web design help with placement, size, color etc of images an » 2017-11-19 11:07:29

I agree with not going crazy with different sizes, and knowing I can simple add #'s in front is really useful. I didn't know that was a specific method to TTG, but know I know, I'll use it!
Right now, I think I use just a heading as a slightly larger font.
I'm going to look at the markdown stuff when I get a chance...

#143 Backlight Support » How to change border of thumbnail in album set » 2017-11-19 09:35:30

peter
Replies: 2

http://www.marlajenkinsphotography.com/ … Galleries/

shows the thumbnails with the border in red, for visualization.
There is too much of a gap between the image and its accompanying text.
Is there a way to change this?
Thanks for looking.

#144 Backlight Support » Minor issue » 2017-11-19 09:00:17

peter
Replies: 1

In the Menu sets, design page, if you had set a menu button to a URL and ticked 'open link in new tab', then you later change that to a 'page' or something else, the 'open link in new tab' disappears. But the feature is still there.

If you want to disable this, you have to first change it to 'URL' to see the 'open link in new tab' option, uncheck this, then save it, then you can change to a 'Page'.

Edit: Changed the title from 'minor bug' to 'minor annoyance' smile

#145 Backlight Support » Backlight web design help with placement, size, color etc of images an » 2017-11-19 07:47:57

peter
Replies: 85

When placing text images etc. within the Page Copy of a page design, is there any documentation on how to do this, that takes advantage of the design of Backlight, or should a user scour the net for tutorials on adding and positioning text etc.?

For eg. If I want to increase the font size, I can do it in a few different ways:

1. Adding # in front.
2. Using <font size="number">

3. Or this:

<body>

<p style="font-size:30px">This is one size.</p>
<p style="font-size:11px">This is another.</p>

</body>

#147 Re: Backlight Support » Can't update this collection error » 2017-11-19 07:09:09

As a follow up, I switched to Bluehost. Once they came online, I was able to upload a lot of images without this issue.
With around 3000 images (we provide galleries of weddings to brides), I figure it would have taken 2-3 hrs. to do this with GoDaddy quitting the 'publish' process every 10-20 images and making me wait a minute.

But, I lost more than that trying to get my wife's wordpress blog copied over.

The support is chat based (I don't think they have phone service) located in India, judging from the names and grammar. They are just not as good as the GoDaddy support.

I had problems with the database file, and I ended up having to restore an older database file. I had to use phpMyAdmin (never even heard of it before, let alone knew how to use it) to download the DB's, so that was a chore in itself.

I also had to use Filezilla in SFTP mode (new to me) to access the Wordpress files that were used in 4 years of blogs - 7Gb worth!
Once they were d/l'd locally, I had to u/l to the Bluehost server.

I had just switched to optic 150/150. Boy, I can't imagine doing this on my previous 25/5 service. The up & downloads took several hours each.

There were still a few more things to do - create a new DB on Bluehost, import the DB over that & edit the wp-config.php file.

After first telling my wife her blogs were gone forever, to showing her it up and running, it was a massive sigh of relief and a dinner out to celebrate.
So, if you are experiencing this problem and want to switch hosts, research what to do for transferring a blog first. You may not get the tech support you need.

#148 Re: Backlight Support » Contact page font » 2017-11-19 06:49:44

I kind of was doing some clean-up, and was going to delete some of the templates. But after reading your post (Jim), I went ahead and blew them all away bar one.

It was a little confusing at first, with this new program, and I am guilty of just going in guns a-blazing! But sometimes that's not a bad way to go - you learn by making a ton of mistakes... smile

#149 Re: Backlight Support » Contact page font » 2017-11-19 06:36:27

Thanks for the great advice.
The templates do need cleaning up, when i get time, but for now, I've fixed the offending template and the fonts are all good now!

I'll make sure I post the link next time too. I thought that the Contact 'Form' had it's own font settings, but it's obviously properly thought out and makes good sense.

#150 Backlight Support » Contact page font » 2017-11-18 11:24:51

peter
Replies: 5

Is there a way to change the font for this form?
I would prefer to have consistent fonts throughout the web site.
Thanks!

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