The TTG Highslide Gallery Pro Video Instruction Manual has launched! I have begun uploading videos to my YouTube channel. The videos can be accessed from the About & Help menu > Video Manual: TTG Highslide Pro. You may watch the videos on that page, or click through to YouTube to watch them in a larger viewport. While on YouTube, you may also subscribe to my channel to be notified of new video postings.
The videos vary in length, but typically range between five and ten minutes in length, with no video exceeding ten minutes. I’ve been trying to keep them short, focused and easily digestible. Being short and targeted should also make it easy to pick out videos addressing specific areas of the web engine, without having to wait through a lot of talk on other controls.
My intention for these videos is not that you should sit through them, one-by-one until you’ve seen it all. Rather, users should first go hands-on with TTG Highslide Gallery Pro, coming back to the videos for help as needed, or when you’d like to see particular features fleshed out.
Because TTG Highslide Gallery Pro shares many common controls with TTG Highslide Gallery, relevant portions of the manual may also be applied to that gallery. And because many of the control elements are common in all TTG galleries — such as the auto index implementation, header controls, etc. — users of other galleries may also want to check out some of the videos.
The video manual is still a work in progress, so not all videos are posted at present. I have more finished videos I will be uploading as I find time, and there are still more videos that need to be recorded. I will occasionally post updates on my progress with this task, but will not be blogging every single upload. Check back on the About & Help page occasionally to see new videos, or subscribe to the YouTube feed to stay up-to-date.
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Matt,
Your video tutorials are excellent. They’ve really helped me better understand your TTG Highslide Gallery Pro and Pages. Both are awesome products.
I do have one question about galleries. In one of your Highslide demos, you show galleries within other galleries. I’d like to do something similar on my website. How is that done?
Any tips would be appreciated.
Willi
Hi Willi,
Can you point me to the specific demo you’re speaking of, so that I can be sure to give you the correct advice?
Matt,
Maybe I’m imagining things. I thought what I was asking about was in your TTG Pages demo. It wasn’t and I couldn’t find it anywhere else. I swear I saw where you nested galleries, i.e. when you opened the Indexed gallery, you saw image galleries but some of them contained additional image galleries. Hopefully, I’m describing it well enough that you know what I mean because I can’t find the demo. That, of course could because I didn’t see it.
Maybe if I tell you how I’m thinking about using it. I’m a photographer/food stylist and I want to create a website and to keep things logical, I want to categorize my photos by type. I’d like to have major heading galleries and in some cases, subordinate galleries.
Well, I don’t know if that helps you understand what I’m looking for but any suggestion would be appreciated. Please don’t feel bad if you need to tell me I was having a “senior moment” when I was watching one of you demos,.
Thanks,
Willi
@Willi:
I think you’re probably referring to this page, which is a gallery index made by TTG Pages. When you click on the TTG Highslide Gallery Pro item, it takes you to a subordinate index page created using TTG Auto Index, and this indexes the various examples of TTG Highslide Gallery Pro.
This usage is explained in my article Getting Started with TTG, under the Extending Your Website > Organize your galleries using sub-indices heading.
I hope that’s the information you’re looking for.
Cheers,
Matt
Matt,
You are correct. Thanks. I check out the article you recommended
Willi.