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pact Photoshelter slideshow
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Saturday, 02 January 2010 23:37

Embed your Photoshelter galleries on any module position of your Joomla website.

The module uses the flash based slideshow widget from Photoshelter. Instead of copy and pasting the code from the Photoshelter website, you can simply copy the gallery url and configure the settings in the module parameters.

 

 

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install Lightroom 2 plugin on the Mac
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Thursday, 30 July 2009 21:49

 It turns out that with Lightroom 2 the "double clicking to install the plugin" no longer works. If you try this you will receive a  "No photos were found to import" message.

Download the plugin here: http://www.pactsoftware.nl/tools/lightroom-export-plugin-photoshelter.html
The zip-file contains a file called: psa.lrplugin. There are two possible ways to instal the plugin in Lightroom 2 on the Mac.

Method 1

  • Move this psa.lrplugin file into the folder: /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Lightroom/Modules
  • Start Lightroom and open the plugin manager (alt+shift+APPLE-KEY+, ) to verify if the plugin is correctly installed and enabled.

Method 2
  • Move this psa.lrplugin file into a folder you prefer
  • Start Lightroom and open the plugin manager (alt+shift+CMD+, )
  • choose Add and locate the psa.lrplugin file in the folder you choose

To export, select the photos to export and open the export dialog (shift+CMD+E) and select the Photoshelter Archive to export to. Enter your login details for photoshelter and click login. (see the faq item on login problems on the Mac http://www.pactsoftware.nl/faq/login-problem-mac.html )

edit: original text stated that the plugin is called psa14.lrplugin. This is incorrect, it is called psa.lrplugin. The zip-file you download is called psa_export_v14.zip
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optimize Joomla
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Sunday, 19 July 2009 18:26

One of the most important factor in user experience of a website is how fast it loads. Of course loading times depend on many factors like;

  • hosting location
  • template used
  • amount of javascript to load
  • size of the css file

In general one can say, the fancier the website looks the longer the loading times will be.

Does that mean you can't use a fancy website? Of course not. The look and feel of a website almost equally important as the content you provide. 

"Users will come back for the content you provide, not to admire your fancy looking website"

Turn off Etag.

Just add the following code to your .htaccess file:

FileETag None
  • Add an Expires header to your web component.

    To add an expires header to images, stylesheets, scripts, Flash, just add the following code to your .htaccess file:

    <IfModule mod_expires.c>
    ExpiresActive On
    ExpiresDefault A600
    ExpiresByType image/x-icon A2592000
    ExpiresByType application/x-javascript A604800
    ExpiresByType text/css A604800
    ExpiresByType image/gif A2592000
    ExpiresByType image/png A2592000
    ExpiresByType image/jpeg A2592000
    ExpiresByType text/plain A86400
    ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash A2592000
    ExpiresByType video/x-flv A2592000
    ExpiresByType application/pdf A2592000
    ExpiresByType text/html A600
    </IfModule>
    What does it mean? Well basically you tell how long each specified file/content type should be considered valid. So a browser would know "i downloaded it x seconds ago, so no need to reload it now".
    The "A" is used to indicate that x seconds from Access is specified. It is also possible to use "M" which stands for Modification time. The expires by time is specified in seconds. So you need to do a little math if you want to specify minutes or weeks.
    Here are a few of the more common used times:
    • 600 = 10 minutes
    • 3600 = 1 hour
    • 86400 = 1 day
    • 604800 = 1 week
    • 2419200 = 1 month
    • 29030400 = 1 year = never expires

    This need apache has installed mod_expires. Make fewer HTTP requests

    You can use Joomla Plugin: CssJsCompress to aggregate all JavaScript and CSS files into one file, and use inline image combine all CSS images into a single image file.

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    Photoshelter Archive export plugin for Adobe Lightroom
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    Export directly from Adobe Lightroom to your Photoshelter Archive.

    Simplify the process of uploading your photos from Adobe Lightroom to your Photoshelter Archive. This export plugin allows you export and upload all in one go. Giving you the time to continue what you love doing... Photography!

    Features

    • automatic login
    • export to selected archive folder
    • create new archive folder
    • rename existing archive folder
    • refresh archive folder list to reload external changes
    • mark uploads as "Tagged" and/or "Searchable"
    • export lightroom rating with each photo
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    Last Updated on Monday, 16 February 2009 22:29