This feature allows you to add a photo album to your site. Pictures are automatically changed into thumbnail form 5 across and then down. When a thumbnail is clicked on, the picture is seen in its larger, original size. A title and description can be added for each image.
Note: If you are selling products that you would like to display, please see the documentation called "Catalog."
Recommended Uses
- Useful for displaying company or club events.
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Overview
- Adding a Photo Album Page
- Editing the Header and Footer
- Uploading Images
- Adding a Title and Description to Your Images
- Deleting Images
- Changing the Order of Images
1. Adding a Photo Album Page
- Click on "Add Page" from your toolbar
- Choose layout "Photo Album."
- Enter a page name for your new page.
- Click on the "Add Page" button.
2. Editing the Header and Footer
- Go to your Photo Album page.
- To edit the header and footer of your page, click the "Edit Page" button from your toolbar.
- Add your text to your header and footer then click the "Save" button.
3. Uploading Images
- Go to your Photo Album page.
- Click on the "Edit Page" button from your toolbar.
- Click on the "Add Photos" tab.
- To upload each picture, click on the square that says "Click to put an image here."
- The image window opens. To upload your own pictures, click on the "Add Images" button and then click on the "Browse..." button to get pictures from your computer. Your file manager will open in a new window. Doubleclick on your image file. The file manager window closes. Mark off the folder you wish the photo to upload to and click on "Add Image to Library." A thumbnail of your image appears below. Click on the image you wish to display. Alternatively, you can choose pictures from our "Image Library." The image window closes.
- Add a title and description if you like for your image(s). Click on the "Save" button.
4. Adding a Title and Description to Your Images
You can add the title and description when you add your images initially or you can add them afterwards. If you add them afterwards or just wish to edit them, do the following:
- Go to your Photo Album page.
- Click on the "Edit Page" button from your toolbar.
- Click on the "Manage Images" tab.
- Click on the "Edit" button below the image you wish to add a title and/or image to.
- Make your changes and click on the "Save" button.
5. Deleting Images
- Go to your Photo Album page.
- Click on the "Edit Page" button from your toolbar.
- Click on the "Manage Images" tab.
- Checkmark the box under the image(s) you would like to delete and click on the "Delete Selected" button.
6. Changing the Order of Images
- Go to your Photo Album page.
- Click on the "Edit Page" button.
- Click on the "Manage Images" tab.
- On the next page, you will notice that each picture is assigned a number. Pictures display with the lowest numbered image first and then chronologically to the highest number. To change the order, change the assigned number so that it is higher than the image you would like it to be after and lower than the image you would like it to be in front of. For example, in the image below, we are moving the swan picture between the cat and dog image.
- Click on the "Save" button.
