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Hey Guys,
Been using the ttg galleries with Lightroom since the early day of the Turning Gate. Still use LR6 as I refuse to pay a subscription to Adobe. And with my business and current website, I still export ttg galleries for client proofing from within LR6. And it all still works pretty darn well. :-)
I’m looking now at creating online purchasing options with Backlight 2 and the "Add-on Cart" options.
With that, also looking to possibly redo the whole site, gradually, assuming the flexibility is there for me to accomplish what I need to in creating my site. Also with the understanding that I am not a "code-guy". :-)
I currently use PS6 and Webbsy(...now absolete) to build my web-pages.
So questions:
I like my current galleries and their navigation.
(sample: http://solarviewstudios.art/ss_main/sen … index.html )
1. Is it possible to use other outside gallery formats within the Backlight 2 layout? As in, create a "media-box" for the content to place in. Or do I have to use one of the Backlight Gallery options?
2. Does the"Cart" and "Client Response" functions require "form to email"? (I know the old one did.)
3. Can the automatic-slideshow functions be placed pretty much any where on a page?
4. And can more than one slideshow be placed on a page? As in, if I want to have say, have two auto-slideshows with just a few rotating pics in each play upon the page loading.
Thanks, guys.
- Sol
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1) yes. You could use Theater's Pym Embedded I-frame to insert content from other sources. These wouldn't be albums controlled by Backlight though, they'd need to be something you put online using a different sort of presentation and then embedded into a Theater page.
http://backlight.theturninggate.net/doc … tation_pym
2) Form to Email is no longer used. Contact forms are handled by Backlight
3) Not exactly sure what you mean by auto-slide show. I think the answer is no though. The slideshow in a Pangolin album will take up the whole page.
Theater's Vegas slide show as well as Galleria can be place above or below the content (and with a little jQuery, you could place text both above and below the content. But these slideshows cannot be made to float left or right.
4) No, not as is. There may be a way to do this with phplugins. Or perhaps Pym can insert more than one iframe??
Rod
Just a user with way too much time on his hands.
www.rodbarbee.com
ttg-tips.com, Backlight 2/3 test site
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4) No, not as is. There may be a way to do this with phplugins. Or perhaps Pym can insert more than one iframe??
Here is an example where I added a custom slideshow on a gallery page: https://danielleu.com/shop/wood-panels/. This does work on any page, even if there is already a Backlight based slideshow.
More about what I did is over here: https://danielleu.com/blog/2016/07/addi … sed-pages/
Daniel Leu | Photography
DanielLeu.com
My digital playground (eg, Backlight tips&tricks): lab.DanielLeu.com
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Hi Rod, Thanks for the quick reply, and feedback.
1) yes. You could use Theater's Pym Embedded I-frame to insert content from other sources. These wouldn't be albums controlled by Backlight though, they'd need to be something you put online using a different sort of presentation and then embedded into a Theater page.
http://backlight.theturninggate.net/doc … tation_pym2.) Form to Email is no longer used. Contact forms are handled by Backlight
3) Not exactly sure what you mean by auto-slide show. I think the answer is no though. The slideshow in a Pangolin album will take up the whole page.
Theater's Vegas slide show as well as Galleria can be place above or below the content (and with a little jQuery, you could place text both above and below the content. But these slideshows cannot be made to float left or right.4) No, not as is. There may be a way to do this with phplugins. Or perhaps Pym can insert more than one iframe??
1.) I think that might get it. On my site currently I use "Juicebox Pro" to build my galleries. I then use a PSD to HTML converter (Webbsy) to set it's location on the corresponding page.
2.) Cool.
3.) Yes, in looking through the gallery samples, it's the "Inline Slideshow" that I'm looking for. Thus my term "auto-slideshow". Several of your forum "Backlight 2" site samples show this in action.
4.) So that had me wondering if you could have more than one of those inline slideshows going at the same time? As in, previewing two Image Categories on a page, at the same time.
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rod barbee wrote:4) No, not as is. There may be a way to do this with phplugins. Or perhaps Pym can insert more than one iframe??
Here is an example where I added a custom slideshow on a gallery page: https://danielleu.com/shop/wood-panels/. This does work on any page, even if there is already a Backlight based slideshow.
More about what I did is over here: https://danielleu.com/blog/2016/07/addi … sed-pages/
Hey Daniel,
Thanks for the sample site link. And the instructional link.
Probably the first of many questions I'll have going down the road here. :-)
Much appreciated.
- Sol
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4.) So that had me wondering if you could have more than one of those inline slideshows going at the same time? As in, previewing two Image Categories on a page, at the same time.
No, that's not possible.
Rod
Just a user with way too much time on his hands.
www.rodbarbee.com
ttg-tips.com, Backlight 2/3 test site
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Re: #1
You can also use PHPlugins to create a custom image loop, and could theoretically let you create galleries of whatever style you like. However, you say you're "not a code-guy", so ... just worth pointing out, the functionality is there to allow you to do these things.
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