A late Febrary status update …

G’day all. I am returned from Maine and have caught up on whatever messages I missed while away. Back to business as usual, I suppose. Here’s a pic of me and my college mates at Two Lights State Park from over the weekend: I had a lovely time catching up with the guys, most of [...]

Out of the Office

Heading to Maine for the weekend. I will likely be checking in on messages whilst away, but with uncertain frequency. I expect to return on Tuesday. Have a nice weekend, everyone.

Exposure for Outdoor Photography review

Professional landscape and nature photographer Michael Frye returns to the Craft & Vision stable to unleash his new ebook Exposure for Outdoor Photography. There is more to exposure than just getting the right amount of light into the camera. Every exposure also creates a specific aesthetic. Exposure For Outdoor Photography is about natural-light photography and [...]

Add a Social Media Toolbar w/ PHPlugins

Facebook like. Twitter tweet. Google +1. Show your Pinterest. It’s probably in your best interests to allow your visitors to share your galleries by whatever means they fancy. And with PHPlugins, you can do this pretty easily. But first, let me share my pain with you. I love beautiful code. I adore carefully hand-crafted websites. [...]

A beginner’s guide to website creation using TTG

You’re new to The Turning Gate, and you’re totally confused. There’s a lot to choose from, and you’re wondering where to begin. It’s the dead basics you’re after, and this is that tutorial. Maybe you want a blog and a shopping cart, a multitiered, sprawling network of categorized image galleries, a video gallery, a protected [...]

Your content, the Web and Licensing

As a photographer, you are a content creator. If a professional photographer, then your content is your product, the foundation upon which you found your business and upon which your livelihood rests. If an amateur or hobbyist, your content may be a source of supplemental income or just a byproduct of your own personal enjoyment; [...]

Advanced Color Picking

If you’ve been using Lightroom’s Web module for more than 30 seconds, you’ve probably figured out how to use the color picker to change the colors in your image gallery. But when it comes to using colors, are you a child with a box of crayons, or a master painter with a palette on your [...]

Elastic panels

You think your panels are as wide as they’ll go, eh? Can’t go wider? I’ll bet you’re wrong. Hold the Option/Alt key, grab onto the edge of the thing and drag it wide as you like. Who needs a preview anyway? Previews are for girls. And no, it’s not just the Web module. You can [...]

Better(?) Responsive Forms

This has not so much to do with TTG, and much to do with web-design in general. If I had a personal blog, I’d likely post it there instead, but The Turning Gate is all I have established at the moment, so here we go … Responsive web-design is a hot topic right now, websites [...]

CE2 Product Updates for 2012-01-30

Owing to technical difficulties, I’m a day late blogging changes for a round of updates that went live yesterday. Relatively minor changes, but nonetheless important. None of these updates should impact published content; the updates are purely for installed web engines, so there is no need to re-export existing pages or galleries for these updates. [...]