You can easily publish digital photos for your friends and family by:
- Create a folder in your File Storage
- Upload your photos into that folder
- Click on the 'Websites' button near the top right
- Using the section near the bottom of the screen, create a new website (perhaps you might use http://photos.yourusername.fastmail.fm/), and choose one of the 'Photo Gallery' options from the 'Publish As' dropdown menu. Click 'Add Website' when you're done.
If you're interested in how these auto-generated photo galleries look, you can see an example here.
By default, any EXIF comments found in the file are displayed with each picture.
To change the comments:
- Go to the 'Files' screen, and change to the folder that contains your pictures (by clicking on its name).
- Select 'View as photos' from the Actions menu near the top left, and click 'Do'. You should now see thumbnails of all your photos, and a title, comment and sort order field.
- Edit the photo title and comment with any values you want, and click the 'Save comments' button to save any changes. You can include some basic html tags in the comments (e.g. <b>, etc), and anything that looks like a URL (eg http://example.com) will automatically be converted into a clickable hyperlink.
Certain lines within a comment are treated specially. The
lines must be of the form:
Tag: Value
- Title
Like entering a value in the Title field, but can be useful if you want to include a specific title via EXIF comments instead.
- Uplink
In the photo gallery, if you have sub-directories, they'll be automatically displayed as sub-galleries. Within each sub-gallery there will be a link to go up to the parent directory.
By default, the link text will be the name of the parent directory. Using this tag, you can override the text used to be anything you want
Additionally by default, the directory that is the "root" of a website will not have an up link by default. If you specify an Uplink attribute in the comment of that directory though, it will get an uplink.
- UplinkURL
Like the 'Uplink' item above, this lets you control the URL used on the uplink in a photo gallery.
- IsCover
If set to any true value (eg 1, Yes, etc), then that image is used as the cover of the album when the parent directory is viewed. If no image has an IsCover item set, then a random image is used as the album cover image.
When you use the photo gallery feature of the file storage area, previously photo comments would be taken either from what was entered via the web interface, or if nothing entered, what was present in the UserComment EXIF tag of the image. There is also a widely used ImageDescription EXIF tag as well.
We've now changed the photo gallery so that the comment displayed with each photo is:
- If you've specifically provided a comment via the web interface, it uses that (comments entered via the web interface are stored in our database, and are not written back to the image file)
- If no web comment, it looks for one of the following EXIF tags in this order: ImageDescription Description UserComment Headline Caption-Abstract LocalCaption
The two default styles use exactly the same html, but different stylesheets. You can create your own CSS stylesheet, and use that with the photo gallery if you prefer.
If there is a file 'photogallery.css' in the directory, then it will be used to display the gallery page.