A personal update, impending travel, blog entries and product updates pending …

May 16, 2012 By Leave a Comment

G’day readers, I realize I’ve recently gone quiet, so I wanted to take a moment to let you all know what’s going on. Rather abruptly and much ahead of schedule, I am heading to South Korea this coming Saturday. If you’ve been around TTG for a while, you likely know that Korea and I have [...]

Visiting the Lightroom? Pack a Juicebox.

May 10, 2012 By 5 Comments

I have recently been working with Felix Turner and his team to bring their new HTML5 gallery, Juicebox, to Lightroom. I am happy to report that the Juicebox Lightroom plugin is now available for download. These are the same guys famous for the SimpleViewer Flash gallery which has been an Internet staple for a good [...]

Advanced website creation using TTG plugins, Part VII

May 3, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Our long walk continues! We’re seven articles deep into development of a website using TTG plugins in various “advanced” configurations. To access previous entries in this series, see a full list of articles on Advanced Website Creation. If you’re new to TTG, please check out our Beginners’ Guide to Website Creation to learn the basics. [...]

Advanced website creation using TTG plugins, Part VI

May 2, 2012 By 5 Comments

Last time, we setup our Shop section and an image gallery for selling prints. For Part VI, we shift our focus to the Galleries page and begin to populate that section of our site as a showcase for our work. We will be adding image galleries, and also demonstrating how to use TTG CE2 Auto [...]

Exchange Updates

May 2, 2012 By Leave a Comment

I have updated my listings on the Adobe Lightroom Exchange. Adobe has updating their compatibility options for exchange listings to include “Lightroom 4″, so all products now list as being Lightroom 4 compatible. I have also updated the entry for TTG CE2 Client Response Gallery to reflect the CE2 upgrade. As always, should you feel [...]

Advanced website creation using TTG plugins, Part V

April 30, 2012 By Leave a Comment

This is Part V of our how-to series on Advanced Website Creation using TTG Plugins. If you’re new to using TTG plugins, you will want to see our Beginner’s Guide to Website Creation. We are working on Campagna Pictures, a demonstration site setup at http://campagnapictures.com. Previously in this series, we have setup our foundation pages, [...]

Advanced website creation using TTG plugins, Part IV

April 30, 2012 By Leave a Comment

This is the fourth installment in an ongoing series of articles in which I walk you through the process of creating a very complicated website using TTG plugins. New users should ignore this for now and go check out our Beginner’s Guide to Website Creation which teaches you the basics of using TTG plugins, while [...]

Five years of TTG!

April 30, 2012 By 7 Comments

Today marks the fifth anniversary of The Turning Gate’s service to Lightroom users. From small and humble beginnings and simple gallery offerings, we have grown tremendously to include a vibrant community of talented photographic professionals, and a range of offerings that covers the gamut of web-design allowing users to create websites to serve a wide [...]

Advanced website creation using TTG plugins, Part III

April 27, 2012 By 4 Comments

Welcome to Part III of our Advanced web-design tutorial for site creation using TTG plugins. In this series of articles you have the opportunity to follow along from start to finish as I design and publish a sprawling website at http://campagnapictures.com. Sprawling? Well yes, because I’m trying to cram as many content examples into the [...]

Advanced website creation using TTG plugins, Part II

April 27, 2012 By 3 Comments

In part one of this series, we laid a foundation for our website. In part II, we will create a plan for our site and begin to work in Lightroom. This series of articles is Advanced Website Creation. If you’re new to TTG, I suggest that you first read through our Beginner’s Guide to Website [...]

Advanced website creation using TTG plugins, Part I

April 26, 2012 By 4 Comments

Scalability is a part of the TTG design philosophy. Using The Turning Gate’s CE2 series plugins, it is possible to create websites which are very simple, and also websites which are very complex. And as the complexity of your project scales from simple to complex, so too does your learning curve; simple websites are simple [...]

iFrames are bad, PHPlugins are good

April 24, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Your entire website may be created using TTG plugins, but I often hear from users wanting to integrate TTG galleries into an existing website. Of course this can be done, but many users attempt to go about it in the wrong way, using iframes to embed gallery content into existing pages. Iframes have their uses, [...]

Black Ice CE2 Theme

April 23, 2012 By 17 Comments

A dark theme with icy, cool highlights, Black Ice is totally chill. Includes templates for: TTG CE2 Auto Index TTG CE2 Cart TTG CE2 Client Response Gallery TTG CE2 Highslide Gallery TTG CE2 Horizon TTG CE2 Pages TTG CE2 Pages Lite TTG CE2 Photoswipe Gallery TTG CE2 Stage TTG CE2 Theme for WordPress Download | [...]

Update: TTG CE2 Photoswipe Gallery 1.1.5

April 21, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Bringing the Photoswipe gallery back in line with recent updates, TTG CE2 Photoswipe Gallery 1.1.5 makes changes to HTML downloads and adds Google Maps support to the mobile gallery. Registered users should receive email notification containing a download link, or may access their orders via the Find Your Order section in the site sidebar. v1.1.5 [...]

Update: TTG CE2 Highslide Gallery 4.1.7

April 20, 2012 By 2 Comments

TTG CE2 Highslide Gallery 4.1.7 is now available for download. This update improves gallery functionality on iPads, HTML-type image downloads, and adds Google Maps support to the mobile gallery, plus a handful of small fixes. The full changelog appears below. Registered users should receive email notification containing a download link, or may access their orders [...]