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 [...]

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 [...]

Everything you ever wanted to know about the auto index

The auto index was one of our earliest creations, and remains one of our most innovative and unique offerings. It responds to the Web module’s most blatant shortcoming, and it’s frakkin’ magical. As with all things magical, though, it is often met with confusion. Our documentation clearly outlines its capabilities, but reads somewhat technical, so [...]

Drop-down menus in CE2

The Core Elements 2 framework offers support for drop-down menus. Drop-down menus are implemented through a combination of in-Lightroom configuration and PHPlugins. In this article, we’ll take a look at how to get drop-down menus up and running on your site. It’s a simple process, in part because the menu code already exists as an [...]

FEED YOUR BLOG to Twitter

Previously on Feed Your Blog, we tackled RSS feeds and Facebook. Now Twitter! Blogs are a great way to keep your audience up-to-date and reading about your ongoing adventures. But expecting readers to swing through your blog daily, hanging on the hope of new content is ridiculous. The purpose of the Feed Your Blog series [...]

FEED YOUR BLOG to Facebook

Blogs are a fantastic way to keep your site inundated with fresh content, and give your audience good reason to constantly check in on your doings. But the web is a fast-moving thing, and it’s easy for sites to fall by the wayside in visitors’ constantly evolving browsing routines. Rather than forcing visitors to come [...]

FEED YOUR BLOG to Readers

Blogs are a fantastic way to keep your site inundated with fresh content, and give your audience good reason to constantly check in on your doings. But the web is a fast-moving thing, and it’s easy for sites to fall by the wayside in visitors’ constantly evolving browsing routines. Rather than forcing visitors to come [...]

Creating the Polaroid look in your galleries

I’ve said it before, but it bears repeating: Polaroids are magical. So maybe you’ve had a look at the new Asphalt Polaroids template pack and you’re digging that polaroid look, but you’re wondering if there’s some way of adopting that look into your preexisting designs, which you have smartly saved as templates. You’re also wondering [...]

Keeping Navigation ‘on the level’

In building a website with TTG plugins, the most difficult concepts to grasp are also related. They are folder structure and navigation structure. In practice these concepts are not difficult to grasp, but they are extremely obtuse to explain. In this tutorial, I will attempt to tackle navigation setup. Through relation, folder structure will also [...]