Example community site

Demonstration Website

Adding a photo album page

Once you’ve enabled the photo album from the ‘Create standard pages' section, you’ll be able to manage your pictures from the main ‘Photo albums’ page. You can build up a useful image library by creating folders and putting photo albums inside them so that your images are sub-divided into logical subjects or areas.

Add photos or groups of photos to your albums by browsing your computer, selecting them and then uploading them to your website. The caption should sum up what the picture is. This is what will be seen when the mouse pointer hovers over it.

When you go back to your main ‘Photo album’ page, all the folders and albums you’ve created will be listed. You can edit these at any time by clicking on the title and adding more images.

To enable the Photo Album

  • Log in to your website
  • From home page select ‘Manage your website’ tab
  • Choose ‘Services & Permissions’
  • A list of services will appear
  • Select Photo Album - click the ‘On/off’ button under the ‘Toggle’ heading
  • Click ‘Enable’
  • Under the ‘State’ heading it should now say ‘On’ 

Setting up folders for the Photo Album

  • Select ‘Photo Album’ from the navigation menu
  • Click ‘Add a new folder’
  • Add a folder name
  • Add a description of the folder contents
  • Click ‘OK’
  • You’ve now created a folder (container) for all your albums – you can create other folders for other albums if for instance they were about different topics or you can put all your albums in one folder
  • By clicking the hyperlinks below you can manage your folder and add other folders or albums:
    • Add a new folder
    • Add a new album
    • Edit folder information
    • Move this folder to another folder
    • Delete this folder*
    • Modify this folder's permissions
    • Modify this package's parameters

Create a Photo Album

  • Click ‘Add a new album’
  • Complete the form - You only need to fill out the starred (mandatory) fields
  • Click ‘OK’
  • You can make changes to the form by clicking on ‘Edit album attributes’

Adding photos to your Photo album

  • Select ‘Photo Album’ from the navigation menu
  • Click the link to your album
  • You are presented with a menu of options:
    • Add a single photo to this album
    • Add a collection of photos to this album
    • Edit these photos
    • Edit album attributes
    • Move this album to another folder
    • Delete this album* note:  this option is only available when the folder or album is empty, so you need to delete all the photographs before you can delete the album

Adding a single photo

  • Click ‘Add a single photo to this album’
  • Click ‘Browse’ button
  • Choose image from the list
  • Click ‘Open’
  • If you wish enter a short title into the caption text box and add a short description
  • You can also complete the photo story text box
  • Click ‘OK’
  • Repeat this process to add more
  • Note: make sure jpegs have the suffix .jpg, not .jpeg
    To edit any details click on ‘Edit these photos’


Adding a collection – preparation

  • To add a collection of photos you need to have zipped them.  The most common file compressing agent is WinZip -instructions on using it are below:
    • Open ‘WinZip’
    • Click ‘New’
    • Name the new Archive (folder which will contain the photos)
    • Click ‘OK’
    • You reach a browser, navigate to your photos
    • Either – add each photo separately
    • or you can make a selection by holding down ‘Ctrl’ key and clicking the ones you want – then click ‘Add’
    • The zip file will be saved in the same folder as the original photos

Adding the collection

  • Click link ‘Add a collection of photos to this album’
  • Click ‘Browse’
  • Choose zip file containing collection
  • Click ‘Open’
  • Click ‘OK’ - You reach a log page
  • Scroll to bottom
  • Click link ‘View the images’ – You are taken to the page where your images are displayed

Editing photos

  • Click link ‘Edit these photos’
  • Scroll down the screen
  • you can now edit the ‘Title’, ‘Caption’, ‘Description’ And ‘Story’
  • There is a check box which allows you to hide the picture
  • Each photo is surrounded by 4 option buttons
  • The 2 option buttons on the left and right rotate the image 90 degrees from its present position
  • If you choose the top or bottom option buttons then the image is rotated 180 degrees
  • When you click ‘Submit’ you may find your image distorted but by pressing ‘F5’ (refresh) and it will display properly
  • You can also perform the edit function on individual photos by:
  • Clicking on the selected photo
  • You will see a menu of options :
    • Show the html source code of the image for copy and paste
    • Make this photo the cover photo for this album
    • Edit photo attributes – allows you to edit the photo as above
    • Delete this photo – allows you to delete photo from display

Deleting a photo

  • Click on the selected photo.
  • From the menu of options select :
    • Delete this photo – allows you to delete photo from display