Clickable link to an animated gallery? 
Author: David S.
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When using thumbnail photos to click to a Showbox Gallery, it works fine but visitors have to click through the individual photos in the gallery.
Is it possible to insert a link to an animated gallery such as Gallery, 360 Gallery or similar? The only way I can think is to create a link to a new page for each gallery, but that would be incredibly complicated and time consuming.
Thanks in advance.
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David, if you do not want a page per gallery, you could put all the galleries on the one page and navigate to each by a link+anchor, or the user could simply scroll to them.
Hello David
Having many galleries on one page, could cause problems regarding performance.
Maybe you could create thumbnails you showed via a html object. For each thumbnail you make a link you define with a target. On the same page you had a html that showed an iframe - that should be the taget.
You make pages without template. On each page you make a slideshow. Each page should be the "source" for the taget.
This will make it very easy for the user to navigate through the galleries - he just clicks on one of the thumbnails, and then the slideshow is shown in the iframe.
You can see what I mean here : http://calendarforum.dk/examples.html
Click on the links ( Display1 -museum, Display2 - museum, Display1- LuxSoft ....)
Instaed of the text-link it could have been made with clickable images.
Instead of calendars to be shown, it could as well have been slideshows.
Another code-free solution could be to have a page with images that has links. Imagine you want to have 20 galleries.
You start by making one page with 20 images. Each image you give a link to a page ( even if you have not created all pages yet ).
The page you just created, you copy to 19 new pages that is named as the links you specified. Then on each page you insert a gallery.
When a user clicks on one of the thumbnail-images, he will see a similar page, where only the gallery changes.
Also this solution will be an esasy way for the user to shift between galleries - he will just see that the gallery shifts.
Another solution if you have really many galleries, is to use subfolders.
You could make a project in a subfolder. The project was made with a template that had a big left sidebar.
In the sidebar you put images/thumbnails. In the project you make a page for each gallery.
Also here the user will only see the gallery change. An advantage of this method, could be that it is easy to maintain. You only have the thumbnails once in the side-bar, and the pages should only hold the gallery.
You could have more subfolders, and in the header of the projects you could have a menu with 10 menu items. Each menu item should direct to a subfolder.
Doing it this way you could have 10 subfolders each with 20 galleries. 200 galleries.
And again - all the user will see, is that when clicking on the header menu, he will see a new gallery, and a new set of thumbnails, and when clicking on one of the thumbnails he will see only the gallery change.