This post is in response to this topic on the Backlight Forum. European privacy laws now prohibit websites from contacting remote servers without the consent of your site’s visitor. Especially if the server originates from outside of the EU. This affects how Font Awesome is used in Backlight sites. In Backlight, Font Awesome is served […]
Say you want to change some things on your site and you’d like to look at your Backlight site’s css file so you can get an idea of what selectors are being used. If you use your FTP client software to locate the Backlight CSS file, you’re in for an exercise in futility. It’s not […]
Adding non-Google web fonts or other fonts to your Backlight site
The Vegas and Galleria slide shows in Backlight have various configuration options. One option that is missing in both is a control to change fade time. That is, the total time it takes to fade from one image to the next. (Note: since this was first posted, a Transition time slider has been added to […]
Do you have any really long pages on your site? Like big albums? Want to provide a way for your visitors to quickly get back to the top? Here’s how to add a Back-to-Top button to the bottom of your pages. How it works is when the viewer scrolls down the page a certain amount, […]
NOTE: Backlight 3 makes this post unnecessary. Backlight 3 pages now have a field for Description. This post only applies to Backlight 1 and 2. When you create an album or album set for your Backlight site, the text you enter in the album or album set’s Description field (in Lightroom’s Publisher) is added to […]
Here’s how to use jQuery to change the Backlight mobile menu icon to the word “Menu.”
(Note: this post was written in the Backlight 1 days. Some selectors have changed in subsequent versions, but the concepts here still apply. And here’s an earlier post from the CE4 days on using the inspector) Here’s another real-world example of using the browser’s inspector to help you find the css selectors needed to affect […]
(Note: this was written for the first iteration of Backlight, up to version 1.1, but applies equally to the latest version. Some naming conventions may have changed and the screen shots may be outdated, but the concept is the same.) Need a little help getting started with Backlight? Well, here are the basics of Backlight […]
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