726

(7 replies, posted in Showkase Support)

Ok, I think I got it good enough in a browser.

That's great!

In answer to your questions above (which may help):

1.  How do I keep the right edge of the rotating images in line with the right edge of the separator and the nav items?

Make sure that imagePadding="0", stagePadding="0" and imageHAlign="RIGHT".

2.  The height of the JuiceBox area is too high.  How can I make the height be only what it needs to be?

Reducing the gallery's height (in the embedding code) should help.

Unfortunately, I do not have a Windows Phone on which to test so I'm not sure what you're seeing.
Setting imageVAlign="TOP" may help (to at least ensure that the gallery image is always at the top of the page rather than being vertically centered within the container).

If you want your text to wrap around your gallery (floated to the right side of the page), then try something like the following code (again, with a 'Body text layout' of '1-column wide').

<script src="/gallery/jbcore/juicebox.js"></script>
<script>
    new juicebox({
        baseUrl: "/gallery/",
        containerId : "juicebox-container",
        galleryWidth: "400",
        galleryHeight: "300",
        backgroundColor: "#222222"
    });
</script>
<div id="juicebox-container" style="width: 400px; height: 300px; float: right;"></div>
<p>Text goes here.</p>

727

(7 replies, posted in Showkase Support)

Showkase does not easily allow for such a layout on a Juicebox or SimpleViewer page.

What you could perhaps do is the following:
(1) Create a Juicebox-Pro gallery with JuiceboxBuilder-Pro (as an automated slideshow with no thumbnails or user controls).
(2) Upload the complete gallery folder (not just the contents) to your web server.
(3) Create a Basic page in your Showkase site with a 'Body text layout' of '1-column wide'.
(4) Configure the required containers in the Showkase editor and embed the gallery using the baseUrl method.

For example, if you created a gallery folder named 'gallery' and uploaded it to your web space's root directory, then the code you would enter into the Showkase editor (in 'Source' mode) would look something like the following:

<div id="wrap" style="width: 100%;">
    <div id="left" style="width: 60%; float: left;">
        <div><p>Text goes here.<p></div>
    </div>
    <div id="right" style="width: 40%; float: right;">
        <script src="/gallery/jbcore/juicebox.js"></script>
        <script>
            new juicebox({
                baseUrl: "/gallery/",
                containerId : "juicebox-container",
                galleryWidth: "100%",
                galleryHeight: "400",
                backgroundColor: "#222222"
            });
        </script>
        <div id="juicebox-container"></div>
    </div>
</div>

You may not be able to create or edit the gallery within Showkase but it might be the easiest method of achieving the layout you are looking for without trying to modify the default layout of a Showkase Juicebox page.

728

(1 replies, posted in Showkase Support)

All copyright messages within Showkase should remain intact.
There should be no need to remove this text, though. It is seen only in the admin section (and not by visitors to your web site) and does not affect any functionality at all. It also helps us troubleshoot problems when we can see what version is being used.

729

(1 replies, posted in Showkase Support)

The Sara Lee homepage is a single-image ListViewer gallery page.
Create a new ListViewer gallery page, upload the image you would like to use on the 'Upload' tab and on the 'Images' tab, set the linkURL for the image to the URL that you want the image to open when clicked.

730

(2 replies, posted in Showkase Support)

Perhaps the easiest solution would be to create Gallery Index Pages and group your galleries under the index pages (using 'Site Navigation -> Group Under' on each gallery page). Also, deselect the 'Show in Nav' checkbox on each gallery page.
Then, only the top level Gallery Index Pages would be displayed in the menu.

731

(1 replies, posted in Showkase Support)

Juicebox-Pro does not support vk.com. The social media sites supported by Juicebox-Pro can be found here.

It would be possible to manually implement a vk.com (or other social media) share button but knowledge of HTML, JavaScript and the social media's own API would be required (and the share button would need to be positioned outside the gallery and would not be part of the gallery's Button Bar).

You would first need to create a HTML button (or text or image) to act as your share button.
You would then need to fetch the required information from the image currently being displayed in the Juicebox-Pro gallery (the image to be shared) using the Juicebox-Pro API.
You would then need to pass this information along to your chosen social media site via a share URL (the syntax of which would be determined by their own API) when your custom share button is clicked.

All this code would be entered within the text editor (in 'Source' mode) on your Showkase page.

This is certainly possible but perhaps not easy to achieve.

732

(1 replies, posted in Showkase Support)

No. Showkase supports only a single static background image (theme-wide in the 'Site -> Customize Theme -> All Pages' section or on a page-by-page basis in each page's 'Override Theme Settings' section).

733

(93 replies, posted in Showkase Support)

@siriusgregg

Are there any plans to implement nested galleries in a future version?

Unfortunately, not that I am aware of.

However, thank you for posting your suggestion in the Feature Requests thread where it will be seen by the developers.

734

(3 replies, posted in Showkase Support)

I'm glad you have been able to resolve your problem.
Thank you for taking the time to post your solution.

735

(1 replies, posted in Showkase Support)

Rather than try to create multi-language pages within Showkase, it would be easier to create a separate site for each language.
Please see this forum thread which may help.

After creating an initial Showkase site (in one language), you could use Showkase's 'Site -> Import' functionality to import all pages from the first site into subsequent sites.

Pages and galleries would just need to be created once and then imported (copied) into subsequent sites.

You would then just need to tweak each site, translating text as necessary.

736

(1 replies, posted in Showkase Support)

If you want to host your own videos yourself, then you could upload the video files to your web server and use the HTML 5 <video> tag to embed them in your Showkase web pages.
Please see this web page for further details on the <video> tag.

Most modern browsers support the <video> tag but many older browsers will not.
Please see this web page for a list of browsers which support the <video> tag.

For example, if you had a MP4 video named 'movie.mp4' and uploaded it to a folder named 'videos' in your root directory, then you would enter the following code into the editor on your Showkase page:

<video width="640" height="480" controls>
    <source src="/videos/movie.mp4" type="video/mp4">
</video>

Otherwise, you could upload your video to a video hosting service such as YouTube or Vimeo and paste the <iframe> embedding code that the service provides into the Showkase editor. This is how the Vimeo videos have been embedded in the 'Motion' page of the 'Patrick Surace' Showkase demo site here.

Whether you use the <video> tag code or <iframe> embedding code, be sure to enter the code into the Showkase editor in 'Source' mode. (Just click the 'Source' button on the editor's toolbar.)

737

(1 replies, posted in Showkase Support)

Each page in a Showkase site has its own folder in the root Showkase directory. As all the folders are stored in the same directory (no matter whether they are top level menu entries or grouped under a top level menu entry), they must all have unique names.

It is not possible to change the folder structure that Showkase uses or to have two pages with the same name (without manually editing the pages generated by Showkase). It would be possible to initially give your pages different names (so that folders with different names are created) and then change the page name text in the menu by manually editing the pages generated by Showkase but, if you do this, the changes will be overwritten when you next publish your site via the interface.

738

(3 replies, posted in Showkase Support)

First of all, please install and run the Showkase Server Compatibility Test to check that your web server has all the basic functionality that Showkase requires.
If any of the tests fail, this might give us a clue as to the cause of your problem and there are troubleshooting tips on the same page (link above) which may help.

I have to keep a couple of browser windows open, click the publish button, and refresh another browser window to see changes.

This sounds like a caching problem of some sort. Try completely clearing and then disabling your browser's cache to see if this helps. Also, please check with your web host to see if there is any server-side caching going on and, if so, ask if it can be disabled on your hosting account. Hopefully this will help.

Thank you for posting back with this information.
You certainly have the right to delete the thread if you wish but please feel free to leave it in place.
Strange problems often occur and it might actually help to reassure any other users who experience a similar issue.

First of all, please let me reassure you (and other readers) that Showkase does not contain any malicious code so the warning from Trend Micro is almost certainly a false positive report unless you have actually have content on your web site (other than Showkase) which might be triggering the warning or your web hosting account has been hacked.
It would certainly be interesting to know exactly what is causing the problem so, if possible, please upload a screenshot somewhere (perhaps an image hosting site of file sharing site such as Dropbox or Google Drive) or describe the warning message in more detail.
Please also let us know how you get on with Trend Micro when they reply to your appeal.
Thank you.

741

(1 replies, posted in Showkase Support)

When the 'Hide email address' checkbox is selected, the email address will be obfuscated in the source of the web page so that spam bots cannot crawl your page and easily find and harvest your email address for future spamming purposes. It does not hide the email address from view when visitors view your web site in a browser.

If you type an email address as email@address.com and do not select the 'Hide email address' checkbox, then when you view the source of the web page, the email address will be in plain text (and readable to everyone).

<p class="email">Email: <a href="mailto:email@address.com" class="email" title="Email">email@address.com</a></p>

However, if you then select the 'Hide email address' checkbox, the email address will be obfuscated and will appear in the source code of the web page as follows:

<p class="email">Email: <script type="text/javascript">eval(unescape('%64%6f%63%75%6d%65%6e%74%2e%77%72%69%74%65%28%27%3c%61%20%68%72%65%66%3d%22%6d%61%69%6c%74%6f%3a%65%6d%61%69%6c%40%61%64%64%72%65%73%73%2e%63%6f%6d%22%20%63%6c%61%73%73%3d%22%65%6d%61%69%6c%22%20%74%69%74%6c%65%3d%22%45%6d%61%69%6c%22%3e%65%6d%61%69%6c%40%61%64%64%72%65%73%73%2e%63%6f%6d%3c%2f%61%3e%27%29%3b'))</script></p>

(The email address will still be visible in the web page and there will be do difference to the look of your site to visitors whether you select the 'Hide email address' checkbox or not.)

If you want to have a link to allow users to email you but to hide your email address on the page, then you could enter something like the following into the Showkase editor (making sure that you are in 'Source' mode):

<a href="mailto:email@address.com">Click to email me.</a>

Please note that this will not hide the email address from spammers and visitors to your site will still be able to determine your email address as soon as they hover over or click the link.

I hope this helps to clarify things.

742

(10 replies, posted in Showkase Support)

I understand your frustration with this issue. The developers are currently investigating the problem and I am hopeful that a solution will be forthcoming (although I cannot promise anything at this stage).
I will post back in this thread when I have any more news on the situation.
Thank you for your patience.

Using /home/ as the path worked for the original poster as his Showkase home page was actually named 'home'.
If you have installed Showkase to your root directory, then you could just use the name of your own home page in between the two slashes (the leading slash denotes your root directory) or even a single slash would do (as you currently use). Either option will work as a Showkase site's home page can be viewed from the Showkase root directory (e.g. http://www.example.com/showkase/ or from within the home page's own directory, e.g. http://www.example.com/showkase/home/).

If you have installed Showkase into a subdirectory, then you will need to include this in the path.

In your case, a single slash will work fine as long as you have installed Showkase to your root directory. (The #1 will display the first image in a Juicebox gallery, which may not be necessary in the path.)

You could also have used an absolute path (such as http://www.example.com/showkase/home/).
However, please do not use a relative path as the path would have to be relative to two different locations at once (the Showkase root directory and the home page directory).

Therefore, either a path using the leading slash notation or an absolute path would be suitable.

I hope this helps to clarify things.

744

(10 replies, posted in Showkase Support)

According to the PHP documentation, the default value for the memory_limit directive (for the current version of PHP) is 128M but it looks like many web hosts reduce this.
Even if you were to create a gallery (including thumbnails) outside Showkase and then import it (via the 'Site -> Import' functionality), the gallery would then become a genuine Showkase page and you would likely run into the same problem again.
At the moment, the only way around this problem (other than increasing the memory_limit value) would be to manually embed your Juicebox galleries in 'Basic' Showkase pages using the baseUrl method of embedding documented here (although this defeats the purpose of being able to create and manage galleries within the Showkase interface).
In any case, the developers will certainly investigate this issue further to see if anything can be done to prevent this from happening.

745

(10 replies, posted in Showkase Support)

Thank you!

746

(10 replies, posted in Showkase Support)

Thank you for reporting this issue.
At the moment, I do not know if there is anything that can be done to minimize memory usage within Showkase but I have notified the developers who will certainly investigate further.
Out of interest, how many galleries and images (approximately) did you have in your Showkase site when you first ran into the problem?

747

(1 replies, posted in Showkase Support)

I have opened several of your Juicebox galleries from your Showkase Gallery Index Page ('/showk/fotogallerien/') on an iPod Touch 4 and all the ones I have tried display and function fine in both Chrome and Mobile Safari.
Your problem may be a browser caching issue. Try clearing your browser's cache (whether it is Chrome or Mobile Safari) before reloading your Showkase site to ensure that your browser is fetching and using the most recent gallery files from your web server.
Hopefully this will solve your problem.

748

(1 replies, posted in Showkase Support)

I don´t expect that this doubled gallerie folders are necessary to remain on the server.

That is correct. If you choose to create your galleries with JuiceboxBuilder-Pro and import them into Showkase, then you can safely delete the gallery folders from your server after the import process.

Now i just ask myself if this would be the normal way or most comfortable way to handle the galleries at all or if i do something in a wrong order by transferring galleries manually.

The gallery folders do have to initially be uploaded to your web server in order to be imported into Showkase so you are not doing anything wrong.
Just upload the gallery folder, import the gallery and then delete the gallery folder after the import process. After importing, Showkase will use its own copied version of the gallery (within the Showkase directory) and the gallery folder you uploaded to import into Showkase will become redundant.
(If you would rather use JuiceboxBuilder-Pro to create your galleries than create your galleries within the Showkase interface, then I would recommend keeping a copy of your gallery folder on your computer so that you can edit the gallery with JuicboxBuilder-Pro in the future if necessary.)

749

(3 replies, posted in Showkase Support)

Please make sure that you are using the most recent version of Showkase (v1.3.2). Background image options were introduced in v1.1.0.
Instructions for upgrading Showkase can be found here and a list of changes between versions can be found here.

750

(3 replies, posted in Showkase Support)

Go to 'Site -> Customize Theme', scroll down to the 'All Pages' section and enter the 'Background URL' that you would like to use for your background image. Alternatively, upload the image you would like to use to the Showkase Library ('Library -> Upload') and then select the image (back in the 'Site -> Customize Theme -> All Pages' section) using the 'Browse Library' button.
Make sure that you change the 'Background image style' from its default value of 'None', otherwise the selected image will not be displayed.
Also, if you want your background image to show through your gallery pages, you will need to make your gallery backgrounds transparent.
Juicebox: Go to 'Site -> Customize Viewers -> Edit (Juicebox)' (or edit an individual gallery page), scroll down to 'Gallery Lite Options' and set the 'Gallery background color' opacity to zero.
SimpleViewer: Go to 'Site -> Customize Viewers -> Edit (SimpleViewer)' (or edit an individual gallery page), scroll down to 'Gallery Standard Options' and select the 'Background transparent' checkbox.