New Themes
We’ve added three new themes for gallery pages, featuring big resizing pictures: Big Picture Left, Big Picture Across, and Picture Right. These themes are designed for gallery listings. They match the...
View ArticleRSS Feeds – Promote Your Gallery
Anyone can subscribe to your RSS feeds and be notified of any changes to your exhibitions. Simple send people to feed://yourdomain.com/rss.php and they’ll see your RSS feed. What’s really cool is that...
View ArticleAdd Pictures by Email
Your gallery has always allowed you to send it pictures by email. However, you had to caption the picture properly, as if you were sending it to an agency. Now, it’s much easier! To send a picture to...
View ArticleHow to use your own www domain name.
Many people want a gallery with their own domain name (such as “www.mydomain.com”). To do this, you must “point” your domain name to our website servers. This is done by Asking Mimetic Galleries to set...
View ArticleShowing Videos in Exhibitions
You can show videos in the place of pictures in galleries. The videos must be hosted on a video sharing website, such as Vimeo.com or YouTube.com. Since the video should be the same height as other...
View ArticleA Multimedia Exhibition
If you want to have an exhibition dedicated to multimedia, here’s how you can do it. In a previous post, I wrote how to show a video in an exhibition. Create a new exhibition, called “Multimedia”. (You...
View ArticlePosition a message on a page
What if you want to add a box with a message, or a graphic, to a page? You can do it, because the system allows you to write HTML on your pages. For example, Lisa wanted to announce her new award on...
View ArticleHow should I prepare my pictures for the gallery?
Here is how to prepare your pictures for uploading to the galleries. Summary: JPEG format, but not “progressive” jpeg. Either “standard” or “optimized” are just fine, choose “optimized” if you can....
View ArticleAdding Facebook Like and Recommend Buttons
Here is how you can add Facebook “Like” and “Recommend” buttons to your gallery: Why both? Well, I find it useful to use the “Like” to connect someone to my Facebook artist’s page (or my main page)....
View ArticleWeb Fonts!
You can now use web fonts in your gallery. We have tested this system with the free Google Fonts, found here: http://www.google.com/webfonts/ Once you have installed the fonts you want to use, you can...
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