Putting Photo Album into document

[dragonfrog]

I am creating a website. Within that website I want a photo album.

The photo album wizard creates one, but it becomes a separate document. How do I link to or include that photo album to my already existing "document"

[dragonfrog]

OK people, I know someone has the answer, what is it??
Support, where are you???

[dragonfrog]

OK, so I figured it out myself

[Support_EL]

We are all really glad you were able to get a photo album included in your site :)

Here are some quick steps for anyone else interested in adding one.

Photo Wizard,
- Choose Menu/Web Site
- click Next, click "Family and Personal" tab
- select the first item on the list, click Next button
and follow the instructions

This will create a .alb file setup as a photo album. You can save this as a template then add the template to your existing site, or link to this site, etc.

good luck!

[dragonfrog]

We are all really glad you were able to get a photo album included in your site :)

Here are some quick steps for anyone else interested in adding one.

Photo Wizard,
- Choose Menu/Web Site
- click Next, click "Family and Personal" tab
- select the first item on the list, click Next button
and follow the instructions

This will create a .alb file setup as a photo album. You can save this as a template then add the template to your existing site, or link to this site, etc.

good luck!

I am confused with your solution.

What is "Choose Menu/Web Site"? I don't see that any where

And how do you add a template to an already existing site?

Sorry to sound so stupid but I only have one brain cell:D

[dragonfrog]

I was able to make a template out of the photo album and I can add it to my web document, one page at a time (whew!!!) but I cannot do a "preview" of the document. It starts converting the document to .html to preview in a web browser but it never gets past the 6th bar on the progress bar. It seems to just hang up. I even left it there for 2 hours and came back and it still was not converted.

I realize that a website should be as few pages as possible but the purpose of my website is largely photo album and information. The photo album is 26 pages, which is only 26 pictures. Support_el, you said that I could also link to the photo album template ??? instead of inserting it as pages in the document. It sounds like that is the way I need to go but I am lost as to how to do this. Since the photo album resides on my hard drive as a template, how do I link to it ??? Please help????

[dragonfrog]

Still looking for some help on this, PLEASE!!!

[dragonfrog]

Still looking for help on this, PLEASE!!!!!!

[racemom]

I played with this for four days and finally got it to work, no thanks to tech support.

OK, I'm new at this so bare with me. And if I leave a step out, let me know.

The first thing I did was created a slide show in a photo hosting site. I use Photobucket.com

Next open your website in Web Easy.

Go to the page where you want the slideshow. Click EDIT on the left task bar.

On the page that you want to show your slide show, place an image as an anchor. Make sure the image is highlighted with resizing anchors.

Go back to your photo host. Copy the html script.

On the menu bar at the top of the page click TOOLS, then CUSTOM SCRIPT ASSISTANT. The dialog box will open.

In the Object Script box choose OBJECT EVENTS.
Paste your html code in the contents box. (Do not do anything with the KEYWORDS box!)

Click OK.

Save your new changes to your file. Then do not forget to Build HTML code before uploading to your web host.

Good luck!

[Support_EL]

Thanks for the tip Racemom, that is another excellent way to add in a photo album. I think what dragonfrog is missing is the two steps are being combined in your description. You can try saving the album as a template, then add this to your site from edit > page > insert > and adding from this new template. Conversely you can just build the album as a separate document, then link to the other document. There is great info in help on linking between two documents.

Regarding the hang during build, it would be good to trouble shoot that by testing it in safe mode, removing some of the images, etc. Something is interfering with WebEasy's building of the site.

[dragonfrog]

Regarding the hang during build, it would be good to trouble shoot that by testing it in safe mode

What is safe mode?

[Support_EL]

safe mode is sort of a minimized version of windows. When you boot the machine you tap on the F8 key to reach the boot menu. From here you can select safe mode. This loads windows with a minimized set of services, etc so there is less possibility for a conflict.

Here is a short article as well

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe_mode

[dragonfrog]

OK, sorry, I know that safe mode, I thought you were referring to some safe mode within WebEasy.
I do not think that would have much effect on the situation. Both documents build fine seperately. It is just when they are combined that it will not build. I am sure it is because it is too big a document for it to handle. About 30 pages, 25 of which are photos.
At the present time I have it as two seperate documents. The first will link to the second. But I can not try it out until I have an "official" website.

[gopherguy]

[QUOTE=Support_EL;18134]Conversely you can just build the album as a separate document, then link to the other document. There is great info in help on linking between two documents. QUOTE]

This seems like a great way to add a photo album. However, when I link to the document and then preview the site, this link tries to open the document using the web easy software. Seems like we need to link to the published site for this document? I followed the online documentation, but the link was not behaving correctly (attempts to open the document rather than linking to the site).

Thanks.

[dragonfrog]

I think you are trying to link to the actual file on your computer. What you need to do is have this link to YOUR actual website and then to the document, such as:

http://yoursite/album.html, where album.html is the document you created. You cannot link to the document as it is on your computer.

[dragonfrog]

I played with this for four days and finally got it to work, no thanks to tech support.

OK, I'm new at this so bare with me. And if I leave a step out, let me know.

The first thing I did was created a slide show in a photo hosting site. I use Photobucket.com

Next open your website in Web Easy.

Go to the page where you want the slideshow. Click EDIT on the left task bar.

On the page that you want to show your slide show, place an image as an anchor. Make sure the image is highlighted with resizing anchors.

Go back to your photo host. Copy the html script.

On the menu bar at the top of the page click TOOLS, then CUSTOM SCRIPT ASSISTANT. The dialog box will open.

In the Object Script box choose OBJECT EVENTS.
Paste your html code in the contents box. (Do not do anything with the KEYWORDS box!)

Click OK.

Save your new changes to your file. Then do not forget to Build HTML code before uploading to your web host.

Good luck!


I tried this and the only thing that appeared in the browser window was some html code but not the actual photo album. I think the only way to do it is to do it the way Support El says:

Conversely you can just build the album as a separate document, then link to the other document.

Any other way just makes your document longer and too big to download. It is better to have links to other documents than to try to have it as one very big document.

[gopherguy]

I think you are trying to link to the actual file on your computer. What you need to do is have this link to YOUR actual website and then to the document, such as:

http://yoursite/album.html, where album.html is the document you created. You cannot link to the document as it is on your computer.

Thanks for the help dragonfrog! So, if I am linking to the .html file, can I assume that is the file created after "building" the document file on my PC? Do I then need to make sure I publish this album file to my host in a certain way?

Please forgive what may seem like elementary questions. I am really new to this (I have yet to publish my site from WEP).:confused:

[dragonfrog]

I am a newbie too, so I would not be the right person to answer your question.
Sorry. I will let someone else chime in and answer.

[Support_EL]

That is correct, when you 'build' the website in WebEasy you are generating the HTML files. This means that when you get ready to publish and build your site, WebEasy generates the HTML. Then you just upload the site and you are on the web :D