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spiketrain

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  1. Site URL: http://nighttrain.co.uk Well.... I ranted long and hard yesterday about how Squarespace manage images - since you can't duplicate a gallery, you can't select more than one image from the internal system to add to a new gallery (yes you can select multiple images to upload from your OS, but, if the images have already been uploaded, you can only select one at a time! - Madness!) and also you can't sort the images by criteria such as date photo taken etc. I'm amazed not only at these oversights - but also.... how long has Squarespace been going? - How many iterations of their interface have we worked through?... we're on 7.1 or something currently... why is it that this hasn't been addressed as the no. 1 need!? - Isn't Squarespace supposed to be for creative professional users? Anyway, so here's my new rant... it has to be a rant rather than a question coz there's no one I've seen in any forum that has been able to assist so far with these serious oversights in system design: I used a few logo images and a few small graphic icons... a couple of specific pictures that were formatted for a specific part of my site that I was building. I used them... it was great thanks. Then I added over 1000 images for multiple galleries.... I experienced all the issues above (in rant no 1!) - but I got them up and running. It hurt me. Today I decided to add one of those icon images to a new page on the site - so I went to 'my library' and then 'search'. Now, silly me, I had the images labelled by their generic camera filename... so DSC00045 etc.... so obviously, I didn't have a note of what these specific images are called, so I thought I'd browse for them... well that's a mistake! - Not only do you get a small box of image that only load a few at a time, but, because of the problem with being unable to select multiple shots, I had re-imported the 1000 odd gallery all over again.... so now I've got over 2000 images to slowly scroll through looking for one shot. I've learned my lesson - so this won't happen again... but I had to do it the hard way! Why don't Squarespace have a full screen image library with folders and search fields etc? - I could keep logos and mast heads, banners in a specific place, and not have to trawl through literally thousands of shots from my gallery page to find one shot! My shots are all up on the site, all jumbled together and only viewable through a slow loading window.... and then, you can only access one at a time should you wish to use it. This is nonsense! - When is 7.2 coming? Or 8.0 or whatever..... and will it address this arcane and clumsy practice?
  2. Site URL: http://nighttrain.co.uk Hi....So.......... So is Squarespace aimed at serving people in the creative industry? - I think it is! - In which case, help me out here if you can; I have uploaded hundreds of handpicked images, which were all selected from multiple Lightroom galleries and output at a specific format and ordered correctly by date. It took me ages. Squarespace can see these images and tells me that I have them. I did have them in an older gallery which wasn't quite working so I started to work on a new one. Weirdly, and I can't tell why, you can't duplicate an existing gallery... is this true? Why exactly is this? Anyway, so I want to select multiple images, re-order them and create a new gallery - except I can't! If you select a second checkbox in the add photos window then the first checkbox empties. You can only add one photo at a time! - I have over 350 photos in a single gallery! - SO I'm gonna say 'no thanks to this!' - Is this for real? Then I want to sort by date. Something pretty much everything in the world can do. If you're a photographer (and I am) - then this is really '101 image sorting class' kinda territory. My fridge can sort images by date! So to summarise.... unless I'm utterly dense (which has been known to happen) this is a bit of a rant regarding what it appears I just can't do with Squarespace. I can't duplicate a gallery I can't add multiple images to a gallery that already exist on the site I can't sort them in an order I want by criteria Guys? - Is this really happening to me?.... I'm in the 21st Century right?
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