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
February 10, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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
January 29, 2012 By 8 Comments
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
January 17, 2012 By 2 Comments
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 [...]
Keeping Navigation ‘on the level’
January 5, 2012 By 9 Comments
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 [...]
Mobile Identity Plates via PHPlugins
January 5, 2012 By 1 Comment
The new CE2 mobile gallery uses the same identity plate as its desktop counterpart. Often, this works out quite well. But in some cases, this may not be desirable. For example, if your standard identity plate is very wide — say 960 pixels — odds are good it’s going to look squished and weird on [...]
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