1. I embedded my gallery in blogger but when I open to the index page there is alot of white space between the top of the page and the photos, is there a way to adjust that so that the index page photos are at the top?
The gap is the header on your index page here: http://creativestitchesdesign.com/svgallery/index.php
It is actually the <h1> element on the web page at the top of the <div id="wrapper">.
The <h1> element contains the text "Design Portfolio" which is not visible as it is the same color as the background of your page (white). Open the page in a plain text editor, remove the following code and the gap should be reduced.
<h1>Design Portfolio</h1>
2. On my website is there a way to not have a gallery show up on the index page? For example I would like one of the galleries to show up on my home page where I embed it, but I don't want it to show up on the index page.
This could be achieved by modifying the Index Page routine in the 'svgallery/classes/indexpage.php' file to skip over certain specified galleries. Open the file in a plain text editor and, at the start of the makeTable function on line 75, replace:
$nGalleries = count($galleriesData);
$rows = ceil($nGalleries/$columns);
$keys = array_keys($galleriesData);
... with:
$skip = array(1, 3, 4);
$nGalleries = count($galleriesData) - count($skip);
$rows = ceil($nGalleries/$columns);
$full = array_keys($galleriesData);
for ($x=0; $x<count($skip); $x++) {
unset($full[$skip[$x] - 1]);
}
$keys = array_values($full);
In the code, you would specify which galleries to not be listed on the index page in the $skip = array(1, 3, 4); line. This example would skip over galleries 'g1', 'g3' and 'g4'. If, for example, you just wanted to skip over a single gallery (e.g. 'g6'), then you would use $skip = array(6);
Please note that the line number above refers to the most recent version of svManager (v1.8.5).
3. Finally, is there a way to have a frame around the photos in the gallery that stays static and does not fade or transition with the photos? Sort of like a picture frame that has photos inside that change, not the picture frame itself.
Not all of your images are the same shape and size so, if the frame fit around each image exactly, then when navigating between images, the size of the frame itself would have to change.
It would not be possible to create and use a static oversize frame within which images of different sizes could be displayed.
If all your images were the same size, you could set a border for your images (using SimpleViewer's frameWidth and frameColor configuration options) and set the imageTransitionType to either CROSS_FADE or NONE so that the frame never moves or disappears from view and is always visible in the same place in the user's browser window between image transitions.
Otherwise, you could add a custom frame to each of your images in an imaging program such as Photoshop (so that the frame becomes part of the image itself) and then feed these images to SimpleViewer.
Steven Speirs
SimpleViewer Support Team