Gallery How-to & FAQ
Posted: Nov 22nd, '04, 00:36
To create a new album:
If you have any questions, please feel free to post them here. This thread is intended to be an FAQ, so in the spirit of trying to keep it clean, I'll add your questions (and corresponding answers) to the post below this one and then probably delete your post.
- Click the Gallery link in the top navigation links section.
- Click on the "Member Photos" album
- Select "new nested album" from the drop-down in the upper right corner
- Add photos to the newly created nested album by selecting "add photos" from the same drop-down. You can add photos via the following methods
- Upload files from your computer via the browse button on the "Form" tab.
- Point to a URL that has pictures to upload (e.g. http://www.my-server.com/pictures/).
- After uploading files, you can then rotate/flip, hide, highlight, edit text, reorder, etc. by using the drop-down below each photo.
- As a last step in album creation, select "properties" from the main drop-down menu up top and change the Album Title to something other than "Untitled". Please make it descriptive! Albums left "Untitled" may be deleted without warning.
- Also, it is recommended to rename your album to something other than "Album##". Again, please make it descriptive. Note: The album name appears in the link/URL to your album
- Please do not post any copyrighted, pornographic or otherwise offensive pictures or images.
- Please create one main album for yourself.
- Create any additional albums as "nested albums" within your main album.
- Any albums without owners and/or titles (e.g. those labeled as "untitled") may be deleted at any time. This especially applies to albums in the "Member Photos" album.
If you have any questions, please feel free to post them here. This thread is intended to be an FAQ, so in the spirit of trying to keep it clean, I'll add your questions (and corresponding answers) to the post below this one and then probably delete your post.