Should I resize my photos before uploading them?

Yes. Images from digital cameras can be very large and can use a lot of your disk space and take a long time to download and display for people visiting your site. It is strongly recommended that you get images to about 150K bytes or less before uploading them.

What is the best way to upload images or photos?

It is strongly recommended that upload all your photos or images into the filelist area. You get to your filelist area in the left hand menu under File.

Once in the filelist area, you should see a folder hierarchy for you file storage. You can create new folders, using the new button, to organize your images, documents, or photos. Then use the upload files button to upload any document or image you want.

Once the files are uploaded, you can then link to them from any content element.

How do I link to a document or image?

Once you have uploaded the document or images into the filelist area, you can link to these documents as many times as you want.

Just go into a content element, select the text, then click the hyperlink button.

• A popup window will display.
• Click the "file" tab.
• Navigate the folder tree to find your file.
• Click the filename to link to that file.

How do I create a photos page?

First upload your photos into the filelist area. If you have a lot you may want to put each event into its own folder in the filelist area.

On the page you want to have a bunch of photos:

• Insert a image or text w/image content element
• in the "images" section There is a empty box that will hold file names.
• Click on the small fill folder near the top right of this box.
• This will bring up a window showing the filelist folders
• navigate the folders to get to the files you want to upload.
• to link several at one time, click the black "+" after the filename.
• if you click the filename it will only select the one file.
• you can link to as many images as you want.

To change other settings

• In the position section you can select the number of columns
• You can set sizes of the files in the width section.
• Add short captions under each photos in the caption section

How do I add a caption to a photo?

You can add captions to photos using the caption box in the image and text w/image content elements.

• Add images to the images sections.
• Each line in the caption section is for each image in the image section
• The order of the captions should match the order of the images in the image section.
• You can reorder images using the up and down arrows next to the image list.
• To redorder captions you need to edit the text to be in the correct order.

How can I resize my photos before uploading?

There are lots of programs that can resize images. Each program is different in the way this can be done.  If you plan to do a lot you can get programs that can do an entire directory at one time.

One simple program is Microsoft Office Picture Manager. 

• Open the image with MS Office Picture manager
• Near top click on the edit pictures button.
• This opens some menus on the right side.
• click the resize button on the right side menu.
• Click the predefined size and select Web - Small
• This is a good size for most photo uploads.
• Click ok to make changes.
• If you click save it will overwrite the current file.
• If you want to save the original file, click file Save As... and give it a new name.
• Use the new file to upload to your website.

Are there other Photo options?

Yes, you can signup for photo sharing and have your photos stored on a photo sharing site, and integrated into your website.

You can share the photos with others and request prints and other items of these photos. You can set prices for the photos and use it as a fund raising option.

Check out the details on photo sharing.