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andylights · 17 Mar 2010, 16:13

Hello all,

I am a first time poster, so if this is the wrong please excuse me, as I have a few questions, this seemed the most appropriate place to start.

I love imagevue ! I needed a quality image viewer, that could perform almost like a mini website, but was easy enough to set up and maintain for a non programmer/web designer. Only one answer really.....

I think I've done pretty well so far, just about everything I didn't know, I've managed to work out for myself, or have found the answer in the forum. But I've got stuck on a few minor points which are:

1)Changing the font for the text that appears above photoblinds on the start page. I've replaced "my gallery" with my text, I've even changed the colour to match my logo, I've even changed the font size , but can not find the font (I want to use desertdog) anywhere! I assume it is defined separately to the font size and that's why I can't find it....I don't know where to look.

2) I have turned off all picture frame boarders. But I can't find where to disable the boarder that appears round the tooltip thumbnail.

3) This point refers to the original imagevue gallery I saw a while back. It was possible to have two user pictures on the photoblind effect. So the blinds would reveal a second picture. Is this still possible?

4)Textpage editor. I understand that there are limitations to this - been reading the forum. Would it be true to say that's it's best NOT to put pictures in a text page - just not worth the hassle?
I've noticed sometimes that content in the editor doesn't always get converted to html code, especially anything do with picture sizes.
I don't understand how to make text stay below a picture and not wrap around. I would be happy just to have a picture (that could be resized) and some text below it, then a second picture and text below that etc. When I try this simple 'layout' it wont always work. I spent ages getting text in with pictures, saved it (cleared cache) and the text wouldn't display, even though it was all shown correctly in the text editor.

Apologies for the long first post. I did email the support address a few weeks ago, but did not get an answer. I'm happy to supply address and log in if required, but I'm not quite ready to go public.

I would like to resolve these issues though, as they are holding me up from completing the 'design' and moving on to finishing the content.

Great work !

Regards,

Andy Barak-Smith

18 Mar 2010, 01:03

1. Since your startpage with the photoblinds is a filemod, you can edit the CSS stylesheet class for filemod text. Go to admin -> themes -> edit your current theme -> click "edit theme stylesheet". In the stylesheet, locate the lines:

.filemod {
}
.filemod_title {
}
.filemod_description {
}

These classes may or may not be already populated by other values. You can nevertheless add your own font style. You would add this to ".filemod_title". You can read more here about how to set CSS styles in imagevue.

2. You mean the border around the tooltip thumbnail when rolling over an item in the main menu? Unfortunately, this is not a feature ...

3. Unfortunately, this effect was from an earlier version of Imagevue that required two versions of an image. Some used this to create separate images. In the new version, the effect is dynamically created from a single image.

4. One picture is fine, for example a portrait/bio ... or a single picture representing your photography. Unfortunately, flash textfields have already made up their mind on how they want to display text in relation to images. The best way to force text below an image, is to go to html-edit mode and use this method:

<textformat leading="200"><img src="path/file.jpg" width="500" height="200" ></textformat>

Setting the "leading" attribute to same height as your image, will force proceeding text to display below the image.

Sorry, but flash textfields are limited.

andylights · 21 Mar 2010, 21:22

Many thanks for your help...everyting I wanted to know.

Could you confirm, that the thumbnail frame for the tooltip preview image can't be turned off? I can see that whole thumbnail can be disabled, I wanted all thumbnails to match. And don't suggest turning ON all the frames!...lol

Regards,

Andy

22 Mar 2010, 03:04

To prevent bloating the theme settings completely, we locked a few settings to just "follow" the theme standard colors. We did this with the thumbnail in the tooltip because its a reasonably anonymous section. Sorry ...

andylights · 22 Mar 2010, 21:27

Understood. Thanks.

HOWEVER....
Just when things were going so well....I discovered today that my entire content folder had disappeared and I couldn't log into admin. I believe (as there is no other explanation) that my site has been hacked. I'm waiting on reply from my host for confirmation from logs (if they are able to give them) . I don't know what I'm looking for. All I know is my gallery was working very well and now things are a real mess.

I couldn't get into admin. I deleted the file users.php as described here to reset the password. It wasn't good. I think more files other than Content are missing. I have FTP access.

I have a local back up (but it's a few days old, so I will loose a few hours). And I presume there is a server back up. But I wanted further information on what remains of my site....is it possible you could have a look? As I said above I don't now what I'm looking for.

Regards,

Andy

could we take this off forum?

andylights · 24 Mar 2010, 13:44

FYI

All restored. Unfortunately, by the time an official investigation and restore request was made, the logs were no longer available, so I will never know what really happened or how the file(s) left the server...I have however enabled extended logging for the moment, just in case...

Regards,

Andy

29 Mar 2010, 05:36

Sorry about that ... I would have liked to see the log files also.

I dont think Imagevue had anything to do with it - Mainly because we had a huge issue 3 years ago with security, something we were a bit sloppy with. With Imagevue X2 we made sure we did not leave any holes ... Its pretty restricted anyway, even if you do have login to the admin. You cant moderate files outside of the imagevue folder ...

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