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Hi All
I am a new user hoping The Turning Gate will work for me. I can code html and have several functioning sites, including two photographic: fwspics.com and frederickstephenson.com. Both use Lightroom templates. I am interested in The Turning Gate because of its shopping cart, client response gallery, and other features I would not want to code. I am also hoping the gallery images will load faster than the Lightroom galleries.
Two immediate questions:
I prefer the home page to have links to various galleries and not have a gallery index page. It looks like this is doable, but then I see this sentence in the documentation: "The way that TTG sites are designed and organized, your site should always be fully navigable from a single-level navigation system, using the Galleries page to access all of your image galleries." Is that really true. It would seem that if you link to the index page for a gallery that should work. (I assume the site navigation will be on each gallery page?)
My site fwspics is using the Lightroom track gallery where the thumbnail images load for a gallery in a horizontal line (the software is making the height of each image the same, I assume). I like the effect; is that manner of loading the thumbnails possible here.
Thanks in advance for any help.
Fred
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You can do whatever you want with the navigation. If you want to link directly to galleries, that's something you can do. I would recommend setting up your navigation using our PHPlugins feature, as this will allow you to update the navigation for all galleries at once to include new galleries, or remove old ones. See documentation about how to setup PHPlugins.
We do not support any layout similar to the "track gallery". If you want your galleries to load fast, then you should use our standard grid layout, not a Javascript-powered layout (which includes masonry layouts, the track layout, etc.)
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Thank you Matthew.
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