Gallery Administration Help

Preparing The files:
The original pictures will need to be made in to:
One 800 pixels wide (The Larger Picture)
and
One 70 pixels wide (The Thumbnail)
The 'JPEG Resizer' utility wil be used for resizing the pictures.

First, gather all the pictures that need resizing into:
c:\HTML\OrigPics

Then Open the resizer, which is:
c:\HTML\jpgresizer\resizer.exe Use the 'Add' button and add all the pictures from the OrigPics directory.
You can add them all at once.
After you have selected the pictures to add via the 'Add' button and have a list if files
in the 'Files To Resize' field,
hit the 'Select All' button. This will turn the selection blue
Enable the Radio Button 'Resize by calculating size of one side'
and set the 'Predefined Side' selection to 'Width' and the 'Pixels' selection to 800.
All other settings should be good at their defaults. (See image below).

Once everything is ready ,hit the 'Resize Now' button and it will put the newly resized pics into
c:\My JPEgs per the setting on the page. Once the progress bar popup window goes away it is done.

Do Not close the resizer.

Next, using Windows Explorer or whatever method you want, move those newly resized pics into the
c:\HTML\jcmaz\www\addpics directory
Once you have moved the 800 pixel pictures into the addpics directory you are ready to make the thumbnails.
In the JPEG Resizer press 'Select All' again
Change the '800' to '70' for the thumbs and
press 'Resize Now' again.

Close the resizer tool.
Next these new thumbnails need to be modified to be
<filename>_th.jpg
For example pic1.jpg, gets renamed to pic1_th.jpg. You do not need to do it manually, just double-click on the perl script:
c:\HTML\jpgresizer\THRename.pl
and it will rename all the files accordingly.
Using Exlplorer or whatever, move those newly created thumbnails into
c:\HTML\jcmaz\www\addpics

Uploading the files
Next, the files need to be uploaded to the server.
This could be done from WS_FTP or even the command line, but
this page describes how to do it with the Arachnophilia FTP tool.

Open Arachnophilia (Start-> Programs -> Arachnophilia -> Arachnophilia)
Launch The FTP Tool:
You can launch the FTP tool with 'Alt-F' or via HTML -> Run FTP Service.

For uploading Gallery Pictures, the 'Select Site' option should be set to '2'.

Select the 'Upload All' checkbox.
Click 'Execute'. It will then provide you some feedback as it does it's thing and sends the files.
If the files made it to the server, the hard part is over.

The Gallery Administration utility is very easy to use. Have a quick look at the short section
Using The Gallery Administration utility
before you get started.

Using The Gallery Administration Utility:

Open the Gallery Administration Page
Using the utility is fairly straight-forward and intuitive.
You can add pictures, add galleries, delete pictures, and delete galleries.

When you 'delete' pictures and galleries. The pictures are not really deleted.
They are just moved back to the addpics directory, ready for adding again.

To add pictures they must exist in pairs in the addpics directory on the server.
The smalller picture (The thumbnail) must have the same base name as the larger picture, but
with '_th' added to the end. For example if the larger picture is called 'pic01.jpg'
then the smaller picture would be called 'pic01_th.jpg'
One method of accomplishing this is detailed in the section Preparing the Files

When you make changes and then check the Galleries, you will probably have to hit 'Refresh'
for the changes to become apparent.

The first picture into a gallery will be the representative picture in the page that
displays all the available galleries.

Happy Gallery Making!