The Turning Gate

Is there a way to place a transparent gif over the viewport to keep people from lifting stuff from a gallery?

I am just trying to tackle the two methods most used: right click, which I can do with Java, and drag and drop which could be done with transparent overlay of a gif. Both of these methods can be defeated, but I am just trying to implement as many as possible to discourage image theft by those methods. I have used the mono slideshow, but flash makes images look bad – creates a desaturated, blurry look that I am not a big fan of. Perhaps you know of better methods that I could try. I do realize that anyone who trys hard enough could defeat any method. I’m just trying to tackle the basics.

really like he latest gallery, only problem is that the arrow to the right doesnt work, the one on the left does work but the other doesnt. Looks great otherwise. Using lightroom 1.3 and os x 10.4.1

yes i am running safari 2. I have had major issues in the past when upgrading with photoshop and phaseone software so when everything runs smoothly its a case of leaving well alone. Thanks anyway and keep up the good work.

I took the the plunge and upgraded and as you suggested it was safari that was the problem. cant remember which upgrade caused the problem a while back but as pro photographer discovering photoshop doesnt want to work after an upgrade suggested by apple isnt good news. On further investigation i discovered i wasnt alone. fortunately i solved it in a few days unlike others i later found were told by apple to reinstall from start up discs, not what you want to hear !
You’re work is great though one suggestion as a photographer, perhaps a facility for a home page with one image then a choice of galleries. just a thought.

Matt:

I am trying to set up the Panic Gallery with the splash/contact/about pages and the index. This is probably a dumb question, but once I export say the splash page and I want to edit the pages, is there anyway to reimport them into the Web Module of Lightroom – I’m using the beta? I know I can edit them in dreamweaver, just wondering if there was another way.

Steve

Matthew – I need some more help. My preferred set up is to have TTG LR pages in the root of my website (htdocs directory) with TTG XML Album Index in a (gallery index) sub folder and under or in (?) the gallery index folder several albums. I am having all kinds of page not found errors. So as a starter, could you please specify what files go in which directories —>>> htdocs/gallery_index/album1, album2 etc.? I assume that the index file from the TTG LR pages cannot be in the same directory as the Album Index files – the layout changes in the album index page if I try that.

Second question – I am trying to make this all work in my Macbook from the desktop. I suspect that I can only test this from my web server because your directions for the XML Album Index calls for the index.html file to be deleted – is that correct?

Thanks
Steve