How to generate urls for albums

wovenhearts

Joined: 2012-11-20
Posts: 2

Posted: Tue, 2012-11-20 19:48

I have searched this site and cannot figure out how to get urls for albums to show up on our site. We are running Joomla 2.5 and have our Gallery3 embedded as an "iframe wrapper" so that it looks to be part of our web site. We are hosted by hostgator. www.ForestTheater.com. It doesn't matter what album is chosen, they all show: www.foresttheater.com/photo-gallery.

I don't need to link to individual pictures in the albums, but I would like the ability to link to each album with a perma-link. Is this possible in our circumstance?

Thank you so much for your help. I am not a programmer, but my husband is and could understand something more technical.

tempg

Joined: 2005-12-17
Posts: 1857

Posted: Tue, 2012-11-20 22:42

It's because of the way you've designed/embedded the Gallery. There are links to each album, you just can't see them. If you view the gallery through the "real" directory, you'll see the actual links: http://www.foresttheater.com/gallery3

If you want the user to see the unique urls, you'll have to change the way you've incorporated Gallery into your site.

EDIT: You may want to look at this: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/create-crawlable-link-friendly-ajax-websites-using-pushstate

Also: I'm not sure what wizardry shopify is using, but it's got to be a similar, if not the same, method: http://www.shopify.com/tour/sell-online

wovenhearts

Joined: 2012-11-20
Posts: 2

Posted: Tue, 2012-11-20 23:53

Thanks for your reply. I did see that it worked with the gallery3 link. I don't know how to get that inside Joomla 2.5 when you want it to look like the gallery is part of your own web site. Does anyone know how to do this? We are not that familiar with how to do things like this.

How do others incorporate Gallery into their own web site - when it is part of lots of other pages?

morganfeldon@gm...

Joined: 2009-06-22
Posts: 31

Posted: Wed, 2012-11-28 14:26

You can paste raw HTML into the Header and Footer of your Gallery 3 theme. That should be enough to make the Gallery look similar to the rest of your site without trying to embed it.

tempg

Joined: 2005-12-17
Posts: 1857

Posted: Wed, 2012-11-28 23:23

You can also add custom css to the bottom of your theme's screen.css folder.

If you want to edit the page code directly, look at your theme's page.html.php file.

Be sure to make a backup of everything before making changes.

wovenhearts Joined: 2012-11-20 Posts: 2	Posted: Tue, 2012-11-20 19:48
	I have searched this site and cannot figure out how to get urls for albums to show up on our site. We are running Joomla 2.5 and have our Gallery3 embedded as an "iframe wrapper" so that it looks to be part of our web site. We are hosted by hostgator. www.ForestTheater.com. It doesn't matter what album is chosen, they all show: www.foresttheater.com/photo-gallery. I don't need to link to individual pictures in the albums, but I would like the ability to link to each album with a perma-link. Is this possible in our circumstance? Thank you so much for your help. I am not a programmer, but my husband is and could understand something more technical.
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tempg Joined: 2005-12-17 Posts: 1857	Posted: Tue, 2012-11-20 22:42
	It's because of the way you've designed/embedded the Gallery. There are links to each album, you just can't see them. If you view the gallery through the "real" directory, you'll see the actual links: http://www.foresttheater.com/gallery3 If you want the user to see the unique urls, you'll have to change the way you've incorporated Gallery into your site. EDIT: You may want to look at this: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/create-crawlable-link-friendly-ajax-websites-using-pushstate Also: I'm not sure what wizardry shopify is using, but it's got to be a similar, if not the same, method: http://www.shopify.com/tour/sell-online

wovenhearts Joined: 2012-11-20 Posts: 2	Posted: Tue, 2012-11-20 23:53
	Thanks for your reply. I did see that it worked with the gallery3 link. I don't know how to get that inside Joomla 2.5 when you want it to look like the gallery is part of your own web site. Does anyone know how to do this? We are not that familiar with how to do things like this. How do others incorporate Gallery into their own web site - when it is part of lots of other pages?

morganfeldon@gm... Joined: 2009-06-22 Posts: 31	Posted: Wed, 2012-11-28 14:26
	You can paste raw HTML into the Header and Footer of your Gallery 3 theme. That should be enough to make the Gallery look similar to the rest of your site without trying to embed it.

tempg Joined: 2005-12-17 Posts: 1857	Posted: Wed, 2012-11-28 23:23
	You can also add custom css to the bottom of your theme's screen.css folder. If you want to edit the page code directly, look at your theme's page.html.php file. Be sure to make a backup of everything before making changes.

How to generate urls for albums

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