Those little rounded corners took me WAY longer than is probably healthy for me.

No, I haven’t used any of the search-engine plug-ins for Coppermine, but I’ve tweaked the code to make the tags stronger - I have a couple more to do and it should be even better. I tweaked the code a little, then got some help from Jason Hahn, he knows php, I just stab at it and see what happens. I’ll send you a note once I get the next few things tweaked.

By the way, I changed the galleries back to display images by name rather than date added, so this post is already past it’s relevancy date - still, most of them should display newer images earlier.

Yes, I do get hits to specific php pages - I try to make the coppermine pages reasonably strong - some of them work better than others, for some weird reason.

I love the flash stuff you use on your site.

Cheers

Carl

“Great Gray Owl Photos - Great Gray Owls, Strix nebulosa, photos of these great silent hunters, Great Gray Owls.”

I was wondering how you tweaked the PHP to get that in there, but it is a description different than say the album description on the “birds” general page of ; http://skolaiimages.com/stock/index.php?cat=5

I know you can add some descriptions from the config section of Coppermine, but getting them to show up where you want them is another story. I don’t want the text next to the gallery thumbnails, but rather on the main page like you have for the owls.

hhhmmm - something about what you said isn’t correct. What you quoted is the album description, and it shows the same on both the Birds Category, and the GGO album page - that’s in the config part of your program.

You can set it so the description doesn’t show up on the Gallery thumbnails (the category page, right?) .. I have the home stock page set up like that. Stock Pages

Are you asking how I get individual Image Display pages to show both the Image Description and the Image Title to show up? That’s tweaking the php some more. I can’t remember exactly what I did .. you should probably be able to find it via searching on the Coppermine Forums .. I asked a million questions there - those guys are kinda hard to deal with sometimes though. I think it’s in your image display.php file . just add the Desc and Title tag below and above the actual image file - I think. I can send you my php files if you want.

Now, what I really want is to have a different description on the subject specific pages, like the GGO page .. I’m using the album description also as the Page Title tag .. which helps SEO .. but I don’t like having it copied verbatim on the page itself - I’d like to allow another text description there so I can add some more text, make it more reader friendly, etc, and keep the description purely for the Title tag.

I think the other thing that helps the SEO a lot is having each gallery accessible from each and every page on the site. That’s why I think drop down menus are so helpful - each gallery on my site is one page deep into the site, which helps. There’s lots of little stuff about the coding that can make search engines relish your site - text links are another. That’s one reason I have the filenames under each thumb act as a link to the image display page.

Uh oh, Jeff Beck just came on iTunes .. I gotta play some guitar - be right back -

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oh man - nobody plays like that guy - what an insanely amazing musician!

Anyway, does this make sense? Most of the stuff I’ve done I’ve asked about on the Coppermine forum, so you might find more detailed info on those threads - I don’t understand much php stuff - well, ANY php stuff, really.

Cheers

Carl