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AT · 15 Jan 2009, 06:54

Dear Imagevuex team!

First of all thanks a lot for your great product -it is really handy and easy to use even for me - absolute dummy in web design

My site is: www.topnikov.ru

Yesterday I started my first photo site using your X2 engine.

Could you please help me in following questios:

1. I'd asked you before purchase if I could use dual-languaged scheme in my site? Found item in config, but how could I put the switch in start page?

2. I mostly use iMAC with 24'' screen and everything looks good there but if go to my notebook 14,5" the picture and text at start page (only at start page) is cut at top.

Where should I tune it? (If link in this text is not working - just go to http://www.topnikov.ru/#/content/Techni ... 0Imagevue/

3. In admin I've created two new themes for further customization. Unfortunately my ftp cannot change permissions for these new themes and indicates that owner is unknown. Look at this: img]http://www.topnikov.ru/#/content/Techni ... e/ftp.JPG/[/img]
What's wrong?
Some folders were created normaly - some not. Should I create folders from FTP programm only?

4. What is maximum bitrate for music MP3 files? I've used 56K... What is optimal?

5. How could I implement counter for visitors in start page?

6. How could I change folders order in menu? I'de like the Start page were at the top of menu and Contacts - at the last string.

Looking forward to your reply,

Alexey

15 Jan 2009, 23:54

1. You can use multiple languages by setting them in the gallery link ... Something like this:
www.photo.gallery/soda/ (loads default language from config)
www.photo.gallery/soda/?language=german
www.photo.gallery/soda/?language=russian

How you integrate it is up to you. You could for example create your own html startpage with links "Select your language: <russian> <english>". Optionally, you can add the language links to one of your textpages, preferably one that shows up on the startpage ... or you could add the links to your current startpage in the description above the image.

2. You should perhaps only use relatively small images for your startpage photoblinds module. Please read my answer to this post and you should understand how it works:
viewtopic.php?t=4471

3. Many servers have permission restrictions. For example, files and folders that are created by the admin script, may not be changed/deleted by the FTP user. To put it simple, you should stick to one of the methods ... The admin is definitely most practical for creating themes, but then you don't get to edit them from FTP.

4. I am not sure what the maximum bitrate is, but it is higher than you are gonna need anyway. In our demo gallery, we use plain mp3 files which are encoded at 128 and 192 kbps. That is probably overkill ... I think perhaps 96 or 128 should be sufficient, and at the same time save some bandwidth. Keep in mind, the audioplayer is set so that it only plays music of the visitors connection is fast, so for people on slow connections, audio will most likely be disabled anyway to keep the gallery usable even for slow connections.

5. That depends ... You need to get a counter script from somewhere, and then you would need to edit the file imagevue/templates/index.gallery.phtml and add the required code. Doesn't your webserver have statistics module? Not many people are using counters these days, because they can see amount of visitors from their stats ...

6. There is currently no easy way to custom sort folders, but we are planning on changing that in a future release. For now, there is a workaround ... From FTP, name your folders like this "001_firstfolder", "002_secondfolder" etc. They will then be sorted based on the number, and you will still use the TITLE in admin to choose what title to display in the gallery(visitors will not see the "001" etc.)

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