Making image pages and adding them to other pages

Contents

Making an image page
Adding images to existing pages
Getting your images the correct size

Making an image page

This will allow you to make an image page that contains an image with a title and a caption or other descriptive text. Once this image page is made, it is ready to be viewed, and it is also available to be embedded in other pages too.

If your image file is quite large, it will be resized once you submit the page. However, if your file is very large, it might time out on upload. See comments below.

On the right navigation bar, go to:
Create Content
Image

You should get a form page with boxes to fill in. If not, then you might not have the correct permissions. If you think you should have permissions, then contact Jake.

If you do get the page with forms, then do the following:
1. In 'title', type in a title
2. Under 'Image', browse to an image on your computer to upload the image
3. Under 'Topics', choose all the topics or categories that apply to your item. You can choose more than one with the ctrl key.
4. Under 'Body', type in a description. Feel free to make this a long description or story that pertains to the picture.
5. Click the 'Submit' button at the bottom.

You're done!

Be sure to submit the page before navigating away from it at any time, or you will lose all your work! It is a good idea to submit it regularly. You can then continue by clicking on the edit tab. Do not click 'view' instead of 'submit' because your edits will be lost!

If after you submit the page, it takes a long time to upload the image, and then gives you an error message with a picture of a puppy saying "Oops, there was a problem: You must upload an image." then that probably means that the upload time timed out during upload. In that case, you will need to make the image smaller. See Getting your images the correct size.

Adding images to pages

If you are creating or editing a page, then you can add images to the page. These images can either be existing image pages (as described above) or you can upload new images. However, if you choose to upload new images, then you will need to fill in the same form as above.

In the page, the images can be added either as thumbnails or previews. You can make it so the images on the page link to the image page, if it exists.

Follow the directions to create a page at:
http://newzealand.ceskyfousek.org/help/addingpages

The best place to add an image is in the body of the page. With the cursor in the 'Body' box, click on the little green + icon sitting just below the box.

A box will open up with a list of your image that you have uploaded.
a) Click on the image that you want to add
b) You can edit the description and/or title, or leave them.
c) The default choices for size, link and insert mode are the best choices in general. If you are happy with them, then click insert at the bottom.
The defaults will create a thumbnail in your page, which can be clicked on to make a pop-up window with the image. This is very good if you want to add a number of images into the page. Thumbnails are much faster to load than are full size images. If you want the image to be a feature in the page, then in the size option, choose 'preview'. You should only do this with one or two images per page.

You might find that the formatting or alignment of the thumbnails on the page is a bit funny. If so, let Jake know and he can tidy it up a bit. Otherwise, don't worry about it too much. Better to get the content in there then worry too much about formatting.

Getting your images the correct size

First, you need to make sure that your files are not too big, or too small. Currently very large files will have problems because of the time it takes to upload them. How big is too big depends on your connection. If you have a slow connection, or are doing other things that hog bandwidth, like watching U-tube, then you will have more problems. The multi-mega-pixel digital cameras now often make very large files.

Conversely, If the images are too small, then they will be hard to see and lose impact.

Shoot for about 800 pixels in the biggest direction (height or width, depending on whether it is a landscape or a portrait orientation).

If after you submit the page, it takes a long time to upload the image, and then gives you an error message with a picture of a puppy saying "Oops, there was a problem: You must upload an image." then that probably means that the upload time timed out during upload. In that case, you will need to make the image smaller.

You can resize images in many image editor programs. Unfortunately, not in the stuff that gets bundled with Windows. You could try any software that came with your digital camera. If you have a lot of images that you want to resize, then I highly recommend the program Easy Thumbnails. You can point this program at an entire directory and tell it to resize it to something like 800 pixels wide or high. It will resize the files for you. It is freeware and can be downloaded at:
http://www.fookes.com/ezthumbs/?Easy%20Thumbnails=3000

Once that is done, you are ready to upload each image to an image page.