Hot answers tagged customization
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When looking at integration between SmugMug and a blog, consider a couple factors:
Display of Photos/Video on the Blog
There are a variety of ways to display photos and videos (hosted at SmugMug) on your blog. The most straightforward involve grabbing code by clicking on the "Share" button that appears above an item, choosing "Get a Link" and then the ...
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Background
There are many ways to do this, I will outline one of the easiest ways to do this using DropBox to store the PDF or other file.
As stated on the DropBox Website: "Dropbox is a free service that lets you bring your photos, docs, and videos anywhere and share them easily." Setup a free DropBox account by downloading the software and creating an ...
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If you don't know what should go where, put it in the bottom javascript. That's a better place for things to go that don't have to be in the top javascript because the page will display faster.
These are the reasons I can think of to put something in the top javascript:
If you need the code to execute immediately before the page loads and displays. For ...
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In order for the slideshow to be the first thing the visitor sees, you need to make sure the slideshow is at the top. If you are using the built-in Smugmug slideshow, be sure to select 'Slideshow' in the 'Homepage Layout' button on your Homepage, and select 'move up' from the 'Organize' selection at the top of each section.
However, the built-in slideshow ...
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As answered on Dgrin:
If you want to hide the breadcrumb everywhere at all times, use this
CSS:
#breadCrumbTrail {display: none;}
If you want it to be visible to you, the site owner when logged in,
but not to any visitors, use this CSS:
.notLoggedIn #breadCrumbTrail {display: none;}
Also on that same line on the gallery page, the ...
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I'm an empirical kinda guy, so if I were going to try to embed my email address on the web without getting spam, I'd test a variety of methods.
Luckily, someone has already done that for us and published the results. :)
http://techblog.tilllate.com/2008/07/20/ten-methods-to-obfuscate-e-mail-addresses-compared/
I believe you can do all 3 of the ...
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I prefer the simple challenge to retrieve the email. This keeps bots and spiders away, but makes it simple for humans. I use the free service tinymailto.com. Simply fill out the form, copy the html code, and paste it on your Smugmug page. You can simply paste it into the 'Bio' box on the front page:
Here is how it works for the user:
The 'email' will ...
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SmugMug supports only one Custom Domain per site, so you can't have multiple custom names pointing to different parts of your site. And, it's best for SEO if you keep everything on ond custom domain. But you can easily divide your site up. Categories come to mind. Say you wanted a place for Family stuff, School Sports and Weddings. Set up a category for ...
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You can use SmugMug's random.mg feature to achieve this.
Choose a gallery that the random photos will be picked from (i.e. an existing gallery, or create a new gallery by uploading photos or by using the Smart Gallery feature to pull photos from other galleries).
When you're viewing this gallery, the address in your browser's address bar will look ...
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Sign into SmugMug
Visit your Control Panel
Click the Customize Tab
In the Advance Customizer section, click Edit
Scroll down to the 'Bottom JavaScript' section
Insert the following text: useLightbox = false;
Update your changes
Enjoy the lack of a LightBox!
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This customization script I wrote will install a Download Image button in your gallery to make it a lot easier for viewers to download original images. When installed, it looks like this:
The Download Image button initiates a download of the original-sized image (not the smaller size that is diplaying). This customization works site-wide. The Download ...
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Smugmug provides a document to help users get started customizing their sites here.
There are also several companies that offer customization services if needed. Trey Ratcliff has provided a short review of a couple of these companies here.
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You can go into Easy Customizer and completely clear it so it won't override any of your previous customizations.
To do this, when you go into Easy Customizer, select the Start Over button in the upper right. At the ensuing prompt, select Start From Scratch and then press the Ok button
Then, go to the Advanced Customizer and turn off the Smugmug header ...
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it's very easy to do so. Put this in your bottom javascript box of your advanced customizing:
// Add custom right click message
rightClickWarning = "All photos are © John Doe Photography. All rights reserved. Unauthorized use is prohibited."
Customize the entire part in quotes to say whatever you wish!
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You had a mistake in your CSS, you were calling #my_banner when the actual div in your HTML is called myBanner. Fixed for you. You'll want to pop into Dgrin's customizing forum where the experts can assist you in getting your Stu Nichols drop-down code moved over to the right side of the screen - I suggest posting here: ...
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It is not allowed to hide the Smugmug credit in the footer. A long time ago, it used to be allowed so a few sites have it grandfathered in (and some sites do it without permission), but Smugmug does not allow you to hide it now.
This seems inappropriate to me for pro accounts, but those are the rules they have.
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No, this is not possible. The new gallery style is in SmugMug's Darkroom (/darkroom at the end of your site url) and only available right now to logged-in users. Even if you are cookied for the new style, your visitors will still see the current version of the site. When we roll out the new style for all, of course then your visitors will be able to see ...
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You'll want to stretch your Homepage, and float the containers for the slideshow and categories left and right. Assuming that you want each to take up 50% of the available screen real estate, you can set the width to 50% on each.
Add this to your Advanced Customizer > CSS section:
#homepage {width: auto; margin-left: 15px; margin-right: 15px;}
...
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There are two ways to do this.
1) make those galleries unlisted, and therefore they won't show in the mobile version of your site
2) you can disable the use of our mobile site in your control panel, settings tab. This means that folks using a mobile device like an iPhone would see your site in the normal Safari browser.
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You can if you have a power account you can. Take a look at #42 on the Most Requested Customization Tips. Here is the javascript they said to add, simply modify the "category_name:description" to match your category name and the description you want.
function addCategoryDescription() {
var categoryDescription = {
"category_name" : "multiple word ...
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When you complete the Customer Contact Info section in the Pros tab in your Control Panel, that will set up the Contact link in the SmugMug footer, which will open a contact form that will be sent to the customer contact email address you keep on file. You can also make it so that you can create a navigation bar button that points to that same contact form, ...
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This question was well answered here:
http://news.smugmug.com/2011/05/25/smug-tip-of-the-week-smugmugs-customization-options-with-eric-trimble/.
If you are looking to invest in your site development through someone else's hand, here is the smugmug list of Certified Customizers:
http://www.smugmug.com/photos/example-photo-sharing-sites/.
And lastly, ...
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Indeed it is. There are many things you can display on your homepage - slideshow, featured galleries, all galleries, maps, a video, and more. This tutorial will give you all the steps you need to do what you want. What I do is have a separate view of my homepage for visitors (with just a slideshow running in my bio box) and then a different view for me ...
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That's where CSS IDs/classes come in. You can wrap your image map and header with a separate ID using a div tag like this:
<div id="myimagemap">
here comes your imagemap
</div>
and then you can address that ID with CSS code. For example this would generally hide the imagemap:
#myimagemap {
display: none;
}
and with the following code it ...
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I would look at your usecases. It might sound fun to have various visual layouts, but that sounds like lots of work. Better just make one or two good ones.
Different themes are useful if the functionality different. So take a look at your existing themes and figure out if they're different enough.
As an example, I have only two themes. The difference ...
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There are about as many ways that you can do this as ways that you pose a model. Some basic ideas or themes that I have seen professionals use include:
Naming the page "Investment"
Group the pricing into the main styles (eg. Wedding, Engagement, Seniors, Trash The Dress)
As quality or perceived quality increases, I have noticed fewer pricing pages actually ...
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The only way to add an item to the Tools menu would be to write custom javascript that runs in your page to add an item to the Tools menu that takes you to the correct link. I'm not aware of such a customization script that someone has already written.
Instead of doing that, you can just make your own bookmark for the site-wide-customization page in your ...
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I had a similiar problem at work where the Bluecoat Proxy Server (http://www.bluecoat.com/products/proxysg) categorizes SmugMug as a Media Sharing site so it is blocked. That tag is applied by the Bluecoat service that the company pays for to keep up with websites. There are other services that offer the same service. Is there a specific message that you or ...
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What you refer to is the lightbox which shows you the photo as big without any thumbnails at the sides. Below the photo, you'll see the caption of the photo if there is a caption present.
You can add or edit a caption outside of lightbox view. If you're using SmugMug style (with the thumbnails on the left and the larger photo on the right), you'll be able ...
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For "Pro" Smugmug accounts only, you can create additional links on your page (header, navbar, footer, wherever) that bring up the Smugmug contact form by following the step-by-step instructions here: http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=180288.
Here's an example:
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