I’m a photographer and am in the process of building my site using Freeway 5 Pro (v5.2 running on an Intel iMac…10.5.4).
I have a ‘Galleries’ page that includes a couple of graphics that I want to use to link to photo galleries. The actual galleries have been created in Adobe’s Lightroom. They’re flash galleries. I then took these flash galleries and uploaded them to my web server. Question is…how do I establish the link between a graphic element on my site page in order to open one of the flash galleries?
I tried establishing an external link using FTP but that didn’t work. If anyone has done what I’m trying to do here, or knows how it would be done, I’d sure appreciate some assistance.
When Lightroom makes a gallery, does it make the entire thing, including an index.html file, so that it can just run in a browser without any other work on your part? (I use iView MediaPro for this purpose, and that’s how it works – I haven’t used Lightroom at all.)
If so, have you made a new folder on your server to hold the gallery files? For example, if your site lives in a folder on your server like this:
/htdocs/
your.html
files.html
here.html
Then you might make a folder inside that site root folder called gallery, and put all of your Lightroom files inside that. If you do that, then you would be able to access the gallery by entering http://yourdomain.com/gallery into your browser.
So if all the foregoing is true, then the way you would make your manual link into this non-Freeway content would be to simply make a link.
Select the graphic you want to use as a button, then Apple-K or File > Hyperlink to open the dialog. Click on the External segment, then enter /gallery/ as the URL. Nothing else is needed. If you want to be pedantic, you could enter /gallery/index.html as the link, but your Web server can figure that last part out for itself.
If you want to have multiple galleries, then make sub-folders below the gallery level, and make your links /gallery/one/index.html and /gallery/two/index.html etc.