Archive for May, 2008
LRG Complete 2.5.3 released!
Ok, lets try this again.
The latest version is now 2.5.3. Please DELETE your previous templates and copy over the new ones
Change Log:
- David has updates the documentation so please download it again
- Track your site with Google Analytics tracking. Code has been integrated, but is still in testing phase.
- Added Slideshow feature to pages. now you can display your images and a normal vertical strip or as a slideshow
- Fixed image blinking issue on pages
- You can now change font sizes on Contact Page
- Fixed email field not getting displayed in contact emails
- Fixed minor bug in the Site Editor which popped a new window
- Fixed various other minor issues
Changes in the works
- Allow send cart order via email
- Allow buyer to choose paypal or google checkout
- Add optional mp3 music player
- Allow for Download of High Res images
- Allow special characters
Again PLEASE DELETE and previous version of this template from your Lightroom Web Galleries folder and install this version. Also, please only comment on bugs or issues with this latest release to avoid confusion.
DOWNLOAD RC2.5.3 | DOWNLOAD THE MANUAL | VIEW DEMO | FORUM THREAD
LRG Complete 2.5 update
The templates have been updated once again. See below for changes.
Change Log:
- Added field for changing the shipping label text for the cart. Example: you can now change the default “SHIPPING:” to say “Shipping + Handling”.
- Added option to keep the “OPEN MENU” button up at all times. the previous version would hide the button when viewing pages and show it when viewing galleries. You can now have it appear at all times.
- Pages can now have multiple images!! Look at the Multi-Image Page link in the demo for an example. Linking an image on a page to another page or gallery is a little different now. The links will now be pulled from the images IPTC “website” field. The linking conventions are basically the same but just written out differently. To link to another page set the “website” IPTC metadata field for the image to “page-your_pagename” for a page and “gallery-your_category_name/your_gallery_name”. The first part before the dash (-) is the link type (page or gallery), and the part after the dash is the link (same as how you enter them in the shell template)
- Revised code on pages to help eliminate the “blinking” some people are seeing.
- Other various minor tweaks and changes
Changes in the works
- Allow for Download of High Res images
- Allow special characters
PLEASE DELETE and previous version of this template from your Lightroom Web Galleries folder and install this version. Also, please only comment on bugs or issues with this latest release to avoid confusion.
DOWNLOAD RC2.5 | DOCUMENTATION | VIEW DEMO | FORUM THREAD
LRG Complete RC2.5 User Manual released
David at Outdoor Images Fine Art has created an absolutely amazing User Manual for the LRG Complete Template! We all owe David great thanks for creating this Manual. The Manual has been updated for the current RC2.5 realease, and should server as everyones first stop before using the template.
LRG Complete RC2.5 released!
UPDATE:
Revised template released 5/28 @ 10:40am PST. Please download the template again from the link below for the latest version. Revisions include all bug reports in the forum
We have a new release of the LRG Complete beta template ready to go, this on is LRG Complete RC2.5 and is the latest version including bug fixes, new features, and more. There has been alot of discussion and comments in the forum with people having the same issues, so fixed as many of those as I could for this release. This release should fix many of the problems you may have encoutered but not all. I wanted to get this out soon so people could move on and get past the issues they were having. The next and hopefully final RCx release will include pretty much everything and be a final and complete package. After that I will start getting ready for the full, out of beta stage, release of this template. Thanks to everyone for your suggestions, bug reports, donations, and help testing. I want to make this template work for as many people as possible.
PLEASE DELETE and previous version of this template from your Lightroom Web Galleries folder and install this version. Also, please only comment on bugs or issues with this latest release to avoid confusion.
DOWNLOAD RC2.5 | DOCUMENTATION | VIEW DEMO | FORUM THREAD
Awesome new feature coming to LRG Complete!!!
We are putting together a full editor that will allow to to change almost all aspects of your site after you have already exported and uploaded your site, there is no need to have to keep exporting from Lightroom. Do it once and thats it!
You will be able to:
Update text, colors, pages, images, titles, captions, prices, shipping costs, add new images to galleries, and more.
Adding custom color options to the WYSIWYG text editor
The LRG Complete pages and contact page include a WYSIWYG text editor with a color picker. The color picker includes many colors, but what if non of the colors match your sites colors? Well thats pretty easy to fix. All you need to do to add a new custom color is to open up the xmlTransformer.xslt file that is located in your template installation folder and type it in. See insctuctions below.
Step 1:
Locate the template installation folder, this is where you put the template files when you installed them. Locate the folders for both the Page and Contact templates. Inside each template installation folder is a file called xmlTransformer.xslt, open that file up in a simple text editor program.
Step 2:
Look for the color definitions in the file.
It looks something like this:
(I had to remove most colors to save space in the post)
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<colors>
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<color>0×000000</color>
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<color>0×333333</color>
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<color>0×666666</color>
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</colors>
Each color definition looks like this:
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<color>0×333333</color>
The actual color is represented in hexidecimal format. In the example above the actual color hexidecimal code is 333333. That is the only portion you need to worry about. You will need to get the hexidecimal code for the color you want to use in order to continue.
Step 3:
You have 2 options now. you can either replace a current color or add a new one, its up to you.
To replace a color simply change one of the colors hexidecimal codes you your new color.
In the example below we will change 333333 (gray) to FF0000 (red):
Change:
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<color>0xFF0000</color>
To:
If you don’t want to replace a current color and add a new color thats no problem. Just duplicate any of the color definitions, and then change the color as shown above.
If you don’t need all those colors then just delete them and leave the definitions for the ones you want to use.
That’s all there is too it!
LRG Complete RC2 Available for download! Now with Google Checkout
This is the latest release of the LRG Complete template LRG COMPLETE RC2, it includes all the latest bug fixes, revisions, user suggested items, and new features. Please delete any previous versions of this template and install this version. This version now includes Google Checkout as a payment option!!
NOTE: Please read the documentation again as it has been updated once again
Features Include:
- Multiple gallery support with unlimited categories and subcategories
- The gallery menu is generated automatically for you without any effort
- Sort your gallery menu items in any order
- Full PayPal shopping cart system with multi-currency support
- Full PayPal Google Checkout system with multi-currency support
- Multiple shipping choices to choose from
- Custom navigation menu where you can include links to internal pages, galleries, or an link to an external site
- Ability to create unlimited custom pages with text, images, and links to be used for your site
- Updated Contact page email system.
- Pages include a WYSIWYG text editor to allow you to easily modify the text of any page at any time just by viewing that page in the browser (password required).
- Fully featured contact form page where users can fill out a form and their name, email, and message will get email to you.
- Easier Password Protection. You password protect galleries buy making the viewer enter in a password. Once the user enters the password for that gallery they will not have to reenter it to go back to the same gallery.
- All colors can be changes and almost all text sizes can be changed
DOWNLOAD RC2 | DOCUMENTATION | DEMO COMING SOON | FORUM THREAD
Having trouble getting pages to load?
Many people have been having problems getting pages to load correctly. There are a few things that you need to do and double check.
The biggest most common thing that people forget is to convert pageContent.xml to pageContent.php. This is a REQUIRED step. The template only looks for pageContent.xml when viewing it in Lightroom, but when uploaded to the server it looks for pageContent.php, and if its not there it will not load. Below are the instructions on converting the xml to php.
Converting pageContent.xml to pageContent.php:
In your exported page folder open up pageContent.xml
Find the first line:
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?>
Replace it with this:
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<?php
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echo "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-16\"?>";
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?>
Once you have made this change save the file as pageContent.php (not pageContent.xml) and upload it to the page folder for the page (pages/PAGE_NAME) and delete the old pageContent.xml file that was in that folder.
NOTE: YOU MUST MAKE THIS CHANGE FOR ALL PAGES OR THEY WILL NOT LOAD
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Double check your Linking and uploading of the page
All your pages MUST be uploaded to a folder called “pages” on your server. If you created a page called “About Us”, upload it to “yourdomain.com/pages/aboutus”. Do yo this you need to enter “pages/aboutus” in the “Put in subfolder” field in the Upload section of the Lightroom web module. If you are putting your template in a subfolder of your domain such as “yourdomain.com/demotest/pages/aboutus” you need to enter enter “demotest/pages/aboutus” in the “Put in subfolder” field. Make sure your pages are in the correct location on your server.
Continuing with the example above, now we need to link to our newly created “About Us” page. This can be done in multiple locations within the Index template but we will put it as Menu Item 1. So in the “Label” field, enter in a name for your link (note: this has no relation to the name of the folder you uploaded for the page). Let’s call ours “About Us”. Then, in the URL field we must enter “aboutus” as the URL. Next, select “Page” as the “Link Target”. When “Page” is selected as the link target the template automatically looks like the “pages” folder for the files, that’s why there is no need to enter pages/aboutus.
If you have everything uploaded correctly, pageContent.xml converted to pageContent.php, and the links set up correctly you should have no problem. Also, you need to have php on your server.
Google Checkout coming to LRG Complete
Its almost here!
LRG Complete RC1 available for download!
This is the latest release of the LRG Complete template, it includes all the latest bug fixes, revisions, user suggested items, and new features. Please delete any previous versions of this template and install this version. I am still holding out on releasing a final version of this template as i want to still take user suggestions for improvement and bug reports. So please post your comments, bugs, or suggestions.
NOTE: Please read the documentation again as it has been updated
Features Include:
- Multiple gallery support with unlimited categories and subcategories
- The gallery menu is generated automatically for you without any effort
- Sort your gallery menu items in any order
- Full PayPal shopping cart system with multi-currency support
- Multiple shipping choices to choose from
- Custom navigation menu where you can include links to internal pages, galleries, or an link to an external site
- Ability to create unlimited custom pages with text, images, and links to be used for your site
- Pages include a WYSIWYG text editor to allow you to easily modify the text of any page at any time just by viewing that page in the browser (password required).
- Fully featured contact form page where users can fill out a form and their name, email, and message will get email to you.
- You can now password protect galleries buy making the viewer enter in a password. Once the user enters the password for that gallery they will not have to reenter it to go back to the same gallery.
- All colors can be changes and almost all text sizes can be changed
Password Protected Gallery Password: letmein
Coupon Codes for testing (discount applied at checkout):
- 50off = 50% off entire order
- 25off = 25% off order from $10-$100