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Photo Album Module

Photo Album Controls

The photo album module allows you to upload photos into the albums you create, so your visitors can view thumbnail images first and then click on these to view the larger sized photo. All photos must be in the standard “jpg” format.

NOTE: To make use of these albums effectively you must first resize your photos to display properly on computer monitors. Digital cameras save photos that are suitable for printing but are often too large for displaying on a screen. There are many photo software packages available which allow you to resize your photos to be “web friendly”. We can recommend some if you do not already have one.

List Photo Albums: This provides you with a list of the albums you have created and some controls for managing them.

Add Photo Album: You must create a Photo Album before you can upload pictures. Once the album is created you can then add the webpage it will be placed into. You can add your photos to the album later. When created the album you have the option of including a background image behind the thumbnails preview photos. If your thumbnails are preprogrammed to be a certain pixel size, then your background image should not be much larger (10 to 20 pixels). Each photo will overlap your background image from the center.

List Photo Albums Photos: This provides you with a list of photos inside any of the albums you have created and some controls for managing them (3a). You can Edit the photo which allows you to change the information in point 3.2.1, or delete the photo. You will not have to browse for and upload the photo again unless you want to change the actual photo.

Add Photo Album Photos: See point 3.2

Add Photo Album Options

Add Photo: Once an album is created for your photos you can use this control to insert your photos into it.

Album: Choose an album from the dropdown list in which you will insert the photo into.

Photo Name: Optional - You can give your photo a short descriptive name which will show up under the photo. This option is often not used.

Photo Description: Optional – Use this comment box to describe the photo or give instructions on how to use or not use the photo.

Photo: Click on the “Browse” button (3b) to find the photo on your own computer or on your local network drive, if you have one.

NOTE: Don’t be surprised when you click Edit and see the photo information you entered but there is no file path beside the “Browse” button. Since the photo is already uploaded there is no need to display the file path. If, however, you want to keep the same description but replace the photo, click on “Browse” and find the new photo on your computer or network drive.

NOTE: All photos must be in the “jpg” format which most digital cameras use.

NOTE: Resizing photos so they are ‘web-friendly’ is necessary before uploading to your website. Images can not be copied to your website like other windows programs can copy to each other using drag-and-drop or the cut/copy and paste functions. Instead you must first upload images to the webserver using the Add Photo control. However, if you do not resize them first, the upload can take a long time and your visitors will not be too happy when they try to view the oversized photo.

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