About TTG
… Through the Turning Gate, Out into the World …
The Turning Gate (TTG) develops web photo gallery templates, a.k.a. “web engines”, for Adobe Lightroom’s Web module. TTG web engines offer à la carte, do-it-yourself website creation options for photographers.
“À la carte?” you ask. “Do-it-yourself?”
TTG web engines are very flexible and provide a wealth of options allowing you, the photographer, to create a unique website. Using Lightroom’s web module as an interface, you are able to design your website according to your own look, feel and style. Alternatively, you may choose to employ one of the available template designs. You can do all of this without ever having to touch the underlying code. That’s the “do-it-yourself” part.
“À la carte” refers to the TTG website construction methodology. You can use TTG web engines to build a complete website. But every photographer is different, and has different wants and needs for their online identity. The Turning Gate recognizes this simple fact, and provides an array of tools for differing tastes and purposes. Like building with LEGO blocks, pick and choose from amongst the various TTG components to create the website that is right for you. This ensures maximum flexibility in design and functionality, while keeping the do-it-yourself part as easy and user-friendly as possible.
The Turning Gate released its first TTG web engine in April 2007, and has since gone on to create more than twenty products, making TTG the most prolific provider of Lightroom web engines. The Turning Gate has been featured in Martin Evening’s The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2/3/4 Book: A Complete Guide for Photographers, in Photoshop User magazine, and on countless photographic and Lightroom-related blogs and websites.
The Turning Gate is a small operation, primarily developed and maintained by Matthew Campagna, with considerable help from Ben Williams and smaller contributions from additional parties. We work hard to respond to every message received, and to continually improve TTG offerings in response to user feedback, issues and concerns. Matthew has training and several years of experience in the field of professional, commercial photography, and more than a decade of web-design experience; Ben is a professional web-developer serving international clientele and a hobby photographer. Our combined experiences in the disciplines of photography and web development give us rare perspective into the places where photography and the Internet collide: web galleries and portfolio websites. And as Lightroom users ourselves, we are intimately familiar with Lightroom-based workflows. TTG web engines draw upon our experiences as both photographers and web-developers, combined into tools that we would want to use in bringing our photography to the web. I strive to make the The Turning Gate a valuable resource for photographers and Lightroom users, and sincerely hope you will like what you find here.
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