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Not sure what version you’re using, but Leo fixed a problem with this – see here for some discussion when other sites had this problem
@leo wrote:
Modals are extremely important! When you network, it allows people to see images BEFORE they jump off your site. Its a convenience for the customer. I use them almost all the time when viewing people’s sites..
I must be missing something, but I don’t see any difference in terms of leaving a site or not of having the preview appear when you click on a magnifier or when you hover over it – the same things happen either way, it’s just how you trigger and dismiss the preview window.
.container-class isn’t the name of the class in Dragonfly, just a made up name Leo used for an example. I tried this code on your site (in the javascript console) and it produced a nice effect (assuming I understand which menu you wanted to change)
.navbar {
width: 95%;
margin-right: auto;
margin-left: auto;
}I first tried 75% but the menu wrapped which didn’t look good
@leo wrote:
Thanks for exploring that and reporting it. Those subthemes come from a resource for bootstrap 3. ( http://bootswatch.com/ ) It may be that some of them are altering things unnecessarily. Please tell me which subthemes are giving you the most trouble in Dragonfly.
What are you trying to accomplish? Depending on your expectations you may just be better off sticking with the clean-theme that you’d been using.
Slate – with modified colors – is the sub theme I’m using. It’s the only one I’ve tried – other than the orange default that was there when I upgraded initially.
I don’t want to continue with Clean Theme as that’s not being updated either. Past experience just tells me that I will suffer more pain later by trying to hang on to outdated code than cutting my losses and moving forward with the latest product.
Everything moving forward will be done for the most recent version of Symbiostock – if there are bug fixes, they’ll be done there, not to older versions. I can’t see any sense in staying with the old version any longer. I thought there was talk that the latest Symbiostock and Dragonfly were intended to be fully responsive child themes for support of tablets and phones, but perhaps I misread that (can’t recall where I saw it).
So my expectations are that I can make some visual modifications to the Dragonfly choices to get a color scheme (and simplicity) that I like and keep my site looking as much as possible as it had before the upgrade. I’ve disabled SYXtra because I thought it might have been messing up the mobile layout (but it made no difference).
I am admittedly very frustrated at how time consuming and painful the process has been of getting the site to look the way I want, but I will keep working on it because I think the visual appearance of the site is very important given who we’re selling to.
I agree with everyone who mentioned Licenses as a huge issue that needs to be fixed. The batch editor needs to let you apply just license choices (right now it zaps other information on a heterogenous set of attributes); you need to be able to have a default on upload (there are check boxes and you can save as default, but that appears not to do anything – I did try it). You need to be able to edit a license if you make a mistake – right now you have to redo the whole thing for any typos
If you browse your whole portfolio (http://www.digitalbristles.com/image/ in my case) you don’t get the magnifier for preview. If you pick a category you get one and if you do a search you get a magnifier. All thumbs (similars, latest images, featured images, browse portfolio) should have the magnifier.
Mobile devices and Safari are a mess. My site (2.8.9 and dragonfly) looks different – not in a good way – on Safari. Broken on the iPhone and looks bad on iPad and desktop. Functions on a Nexus (Android/Chrome) but looks really awful – all you see is a column of menus up top and when you do get to images it’s just one column down the left side and tons of white space. Firefox on the desktop looks mostly OK but has some of the text that’s a link white instead of dark gray (as does Safari) which makes no sense.
The extra “r” by the price on the e-mail a purchaser gets has been a bug for a long time. I know it’s small, but we should look our best in something going to a customer.
@redneck wrote:
Finally.
Took some time to get settled but here we are. Full size image sale: http://picturebreeze.com/stock/photos/image/working-cowboy/yea!!
I like having a big image slider up top – I think it’s something to draw buyers in.
I also like your change to dark blue for the site title.
I would suggest that you simplify the number of typefaces and number of transitions you use though. You have a different one for the text over the slider from the one you use for the headings, for example. Given that you’re already changing colors, I think you don’t want so many different colors, shapes and sizes.
On the transitions, I really think simpler is better as you want people to focus on your images, not the flying squares or rippling lines. But if you love one of the more complex transitions, perhaps stick with that and use it throughout the slideshow – right now every one is different.
The only other suggestion is to see if your slider will let you make a link from one of the slides. Mine (Soliloquy) does and I linked each slide to the image page where you can buy it. I think if a buyer likes one of your slider images, making it easy for them to purchase it is a good idea (and ignore how awful my site looks in general right now as I’m still struggling with the 2.8.x upgrade from 2.6.5, but the slider part is fine if you want to see how it functions)
I think it’s a great idea to post our “finished” sites here for feedback…
@redneck wrote:
Your issue number 4:
-> WP Admin -> Appearance -> Customize -> Symbiostock Image Page -> Author Container (Background Color)
Thanks. I had finally changed it there but only after many attempts to modify it via the Appearance-> Editor option to edit the CSS for dragonfly.
I had tracked down the class – .bio-box – and could modify it in the javascript console, but the edits I made to it via the admin panel that’s supposed to let you customize dragonfly didn’t work. I’m guessing they were overridden.
So, I deduce from that: Customize panel changes take precedence over Dragonfly child theme changes.
If that’s the case, then (a) it’d be important to document that, and (b) I hope that’s true for everything in that customize panel, otherwise one could go crazy trying to figure out where to make a change.
Item 3 in my original list required editing code in functions.php to fix it – IMO it’s just wrong to stick formatting information into the code like that. Am I missing some important reason why this couldn’t be something customized in a style sheet?
The function is symbiostock_sep_content( ) in case anyone else needs to do this and you need to remove the two
insertions.Things are slow, but after about 6 weeks I’m at 895/982 pages and 582/982 images indexed, so I think you should be seeing something happening.
If you look at Google’s webmaster tools, select your site and select Crawl->Sitemaps what do you see for progress. Are there any errors shown?
It’s an unrelated question, but was there a reason you chose not to give a visitor any tools to just browse your images (other than a search)? I know what URLs to use to see your entire collection and list of categories (which I see you haven’t used at all) so I could take a peek. I don’t think it has any bearing on google’s indexing, but I think some links to some more of your images from the front page would be more inviting than just one up top.
And if you look at my site, at the moment it’s a mess as I’m struggling with the upgrade to 2.8.x and things look awful, so I’m no role model 🙂
@shazamimages wrote:
You probably already know this, but just in case…
If you are using Google Chrome, you can right-click on an element and then choose “Inspect Element”. This will then bring up another window on the bottom of the screen that will show you all of the CSS elements. You can also make experimental changes (that are not saved) by modifying the items on the right side.
Thanks. I have been using that and the JavaScript Console and other developer tools trying to inspect parts of the page and get a clue as to what to change. There are still these mystery objects/overrides or whatever that don’t yield to the obvious, although that did help with some of the items I found before I wrote my list
Sorry – I misunderstood what you were referring to. Disregard everything I said!
If you check in your wp-content directory for that image number, do you have the file? As an example from my own site, for image 1590 the two files are
http://www.digitalbristles.com/wp-content/uploads/symbiostock_rf_content/1590-minipic.jpg
http://www.digitalbristles.com/wp-content/uploads/symbiostock_rf_content/1590-arched-walkway.jpgAnd if you have both files, can you view the supposedly larger one in a browser?
If the file doesn’t exist, then you have a problem with image processing – which can fail silently in a number of cases – you just get a blank screen at the end
Removed my post about hover previews from SYXtra because that’s not relevant to the OP’s question.
Thank you so much – that’s done so it now says Add to Cart
@christine wrote:
Button Colour Change – this is a bit more than a snippet and probably does not need the whole thing, but you need to change the hover bits as well, so I am including it all until someone posts a shorter version…
Thanks for this.
I used it – but modified so it was gray on gray for my site. There’s one part I see that I don’t like on my button (now named Checkout as that’s the new default; I will change it to Add To Cart when I figure out if I need to change the code or if there’s a UI for that somewhere). On your site the button looks OK and I’m wondering if it’s because you changed something elsewhere.
If I hover over my checkout button I see puke green instead of gray. Your button stays purple. It’s possible this has to do with using the dragonfly child theme, but I thought I’d ask in case you’d seen the puke green and changed it somewhere else.
It would be so helpful if there were some sort of guide to the names of these items on the page; hunting around in the view source is slow going. I take it there isn’t any sort of documentation anywhere?
