Hi all.
I've been messing around with Zenphoto for the last week or so, but I'm having trouble tweeking it to my liking.
I've tried looking up the info, but am unsure where exactly to start.

Basically what I'm trying to do, is have Zenphoto as my main site.

I'd like an index page that just has general info.

I'd also like to have a menu at the top, for things like, About Us page, FAQ page, and a contact page, and a link to the gallery that is on every page.

I've been playing with the Zenpages plugin, but can't figure out how to make it like I've described.

Can someone point me tward the correct info to make this happen?

My Web dev skills are pretty basic, so looking for a good tutorial if possible.

Thanks for all help.
If it helps, the URL to the site I'm working on is http://www.scottstonesupply.com/new

I suggest you start with reading the theming tutorial.
http://www.zenphoto.org/news/theming-tutorial

The theme you are currently working on is very complex.
Try getting acquainted with the Zenpage theme (with the zenpage extension activated)

Ok, will do.
I looked over the tutorial before, and it didn't make a lot of sense, but that could have been partly because I'd fried my brain already. haha

From what I've said I'm shooting for, is sticking with the Zenpage plugin probably going to get me in the right direction?

Quote:is sticking with the Zenpage plugin probably going to get me in the right direction?
Yes.
With the [i]zenpage[/i] extension enabled you can create pages and a news section.
This site is an example.

So, what is the difference between the Zenpage, and the menu_manager plugin?

Also, I've been playing with code in a copy of the basic theme, using the themeing tutorial. Just to familiarize myself with what's needed, and not. lol

I figured I'd start with the section in the tutorial talking about separation of the gallery, and the index page.
This is what the themeing tutorial says on the subject.

"You may wish to have an introductory page to your website but still keep the look and feel of the gallery for visitors viewing your images. This can easily be done by using the theme option custom index page. If you have an existing zenphoto gallery the easiest way to accomplish this task is to rename your current theme index.php script to something else, say gallery.php. Create your new index.php script to introduce your site. Include on it a link to http://yoursite.com/zenphoto/page/gallery (assuming you named your old index file gallery.php and you installed Zenphoto in the folder zenphoto). Set the custom index page option to gallery and your are all set."

So, I renamed the index.php file to gallery.php, and created my own simple index.php file.
The problem is, I tried to link to the old index.php file, (Now named gallery.php) like it said, but the link does not work...
What am I missing?

Zenpage is a plugin that provides news articles (= blog) and normal page management additionally to the standard gallery album management (don't confuse it with the theme of the same name).

The menu manager is, well, a menu manager to create one (or more) menu of all sorts of elements like album, Zenpage items or others.

Both plugins require built in support on the theme using. Not all themes do.

You are a bit diving into advanced theming. Any page expect the standard index.php, image.php and album.php are so called custom pages. That means their url is /pages/gallery then.

I suggest to take the Zenpage theme as the base of your theme as that has these things already built in (even if it has Zenpage news and pages support you don't need to use it).. Basic is really just basic.

Thanks.
I was doing a beginner mistake.
I didn't pay attention to what I was reading.
Trying to make heads or tails of all this code makes my brain go soft pretty quickly.
I'm thinking I'm in over my head, so might eventually be hitting up the payed support to check prices, but I'm going to keep plucking along for now.

Am I asking these questions in the right forum, or should these type of questions be posted in installation, or another?
Don't want to be posting in the wrong section.

The subforum does not really matter. I personally read new posts mostly via RSS anyway so I don't really pay atention to them at all. If this forum software had a way to joing subforums we probably had done that already.