How to customize the Social Media icons on your site.
Changing and sizing the social media icons in Backlight
Changing font-size in Backlight
Update: As of Backlight 3.2 you can now change the fonts size in the page template. Look in your page template under Content > Main Copy. You’ll see Font-size and Line-height options that will let you increase or decrease the value for each setting. There is also a Custom option that will allow you to […]
Center controls over the Vegas slide show
A quick css tip to center your Vegas slide show controls.
Moving your development site to your production site
Moving your test/development Backlight site to the root of your main site is easy. Here’s how.
Remove share buttons in your Backlight albums
UPDATE: Backlight 4 now has a setting to remove all of the social sharing icons. However, if you don’t want them all removed you’ll still need to use the custom css solution. If you choose the “slideshow” presentation for your Backlight albums, you’ll see a “picture” icon in the upper right-hand area of the large […]
Style your Backlight contact form success message
You may have noticed that the success message you see after sending an email from a Backlight contact form has a blue background. There is nowhere in the Backlight Designer to change this, but with a teeny, weeny bit of css you can style it to match your site’s color scheme. Just add this to […]
Make your own Backlight typography preview page
The TTG CE4 series of Lightroom plug-ins had an option to preview the typography settings right in the plug-in. That was handy for checking out fonts, form buttons, table shading, lists, etc. But Backlight has no such option other than to create a page, make changes, and look at the page. So, at the prompting […]
Add an image search form to any Backlight page
It’s pretty easy to add an image search form to any Backlight page or even a WordPress widget, allowing your viewers to access an image search feature form from any page you choose rather than needing to click on the “Search” link in the navigation menu. Just add the html below to the page copy […]
EU Cookie Law
If you need to make your website compliant with the EU Cookie Law, John Bishop has just posted a tutorial over on his blog outlining the steps needed to make your TTG site Cookie compliant. So pop on over to John’s blog and partake in cookie goodness.
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