I know it’s only been a couple of months since I last updated the ‘Gallery’ section of my website, but I had a niggling feeling that 3 galleries was too much, and I wasn’t really comfortable with the whole ’1 2 3′ labeling system. And with the SlideShowPro plugin for LightRoom, it’s pretty easy to update the galleries…
So… I’ve now re-done the landing page for the galleries slightly – with a link to a ‘Travel‘ gallery, and one to a ‘Personal‘ gallery. I’ve purposefully kept both galleries under 16 images too, so that the preview icons all fit on one page within the window.
Other new things with the galleries – I removed the title and the logo links from the flash part of the gallery, and instead added these manually after the creation of the gallery directory. The whole thing (excluding choosing and ordering the pictures) took not more than about 30 mins.
Once the export of the two galleries was complete, I then quickly edited the index.html file within the gallery directories, and manually updated these items:
1. Added google analytics information to the code
2. Updated the page title, description and keywords meta tags
3. Added a page ‘header’ which included the copyright tag and a link back to my galleries landing page so people visiting the gallery can navigate back to my main page easily
Overall the process is pretty easy – I did a post on SlideShowPro a while ago that basically came to the conclusion that I love this tool, and for $25 it’s incredible value. I’m still there!
So if you haven’t already, feel free to check out the gallery landing page with links to the two new galleries HERE.
