Thank you for that input, I will be more detailed. I payed someone here to upgrade coppermine to the latest version a few months ago, someone that is on the board here. He installed latest version, and got it working, but I had to choose a new theme and could not use my old custom template. I chose a user created coppermine theme. I got bad reviews from people here saying it was hard to get around with that theme. So I paid the person that upgraded my coppermine to update my old template so I could use it instead since I had better hits with it. I thought everything was working and may not have tested it well enough before I signed off on the template. So, perhaps my fault there. But as far as I know everything was working fine.
After the changes all my links were bad in the search engines, except for the main gallery page here:
http://www.silverspoonmurals.com/gallery. Unfortunately upgrading coppermine has decreased my traffic quite a bit, and probably due to the search factor not working properly and broken links on search engines.
Anyway, after that I had someone doing some unrelated web work for me that I asked to change the page names to reflect the category names. This would line up with how my old original custom tempate worked and all the pages that were already in search engines. I didn't realize there were other problems.
Bottom line search will pull up photos and you can click on photos and go to the photo. (Test the word "tree" to see an example of the problem.) But if there is more than one page of photos pulled up in the search results, I get a "album does not exist error message. Also the cloud tags don't work, I get the error message that the album does not exist again when you click a tag. This could easily be an issue created by changing page names. I probably did not thoroughly test if that affected the search.
I just discovered the problem this week and need to get it fixed because it is seriously affecting my stats more than likely frustrating a lot of people and possible clients. I know I would leave the site and go elsewhere if I was hitting bad links.
As far as changes, all I need is an intro to appear on the main gallery page with the albums. It explains to my customers what I do as far as mural work is concerned. I use coppermine as a portfolio for my work, not as a group or community photo gallery. So there are many features or links not visible to the public, as I don't allow people to upload photos.
The coppermine search box I would like added to the template so it appears on every page. This makes it easy for people to search for photos quickly and eliminates an extra click. Yes I do have a google search box at the top which will remain, but it searches the entire site. I want people looking for photos to just search the photo gallery.
Please let me know if this is a better explanation of the problems that need fixing and what I need as far as changes.
Thank you for reading.