I have read the docs and searched posts and am still confused about how to get the structure and appearance I want on the main page of my gallery.
My gallery -
http://www.tetruss.com/cpg15xMy intention is to create a place on my website where users of a product I make, can create their own albums to upload pics of how they use the product, and make them available for any visitors to the site to see, while they maintain control of the album itself
I have installed and am testing coppermine to see how it might fulfill my intention. I have set-up my admin account and 2 mock user accounts. I have created test albums in all 3. I am not setting up categories, so "no category" is the default. I have changed the default name of "user gallery" to "owner gallery".
What I am trying to resolve is why these 3 test albums I have uploaded are displaying differently from each other.
On the main page of the gallery there is a heading called "Category". Beneath this is a link called "Owner Galleries" Beneath this there is a line of text that says, "This category contains albums that belong to Coppermine users." Two of the 3 test albums are in this "Owners Gallery", and were uploaded through the 2 mock user accounts.
The issue for me is that there are no thumbs showing in this view under the category. Only the link "owner gallery". When I click on it then I arrive at a page with the thumbs. Can I change this to where the thumbs that represent an album can be viewed on the main gallery page, instead of a visitor only seeing a text link to owner galleries. In other words I want a visitor to arrive at the "owner gallery" page when they type in the url to the page. Also can I get rid of the text that says "This category contains albums that belong to Coppermine users."
The next thing, is that on my main page below "Category" is a line of text that says ... "9 files in
3 albums and 1 categories with 0 comments viewed 5 times"
The "owner gallery" category only lists
2 albums available.
The 3rd album, called "test" shows up right beneath the "9 files..." line of text....there is no heading for the album, just the name of the album. This is the album I loaded from my admin account.
Why is this album separate from those 2 in the owner gallery?
If I could I would want all the albums to show up on the main page with name and thumbnail the same way as the "test" gallery does. Is this a default way that the admins albums are displayed? How can I get the admin albums to display the same as an owner gallery? ...or vice-versa.
I also note the thumbnails in the owner galleries are about half the size as those in the "test" gallery. I have searched the different admins pages for albums, images, thumbs and have missed how to resize thumbnails.
Is there a way to resize thumbnails?
I would be greatful for any insights to help me get this project underway
regards
Galen