If you would like to display a gallery of photos on your website—perhaps creating a virtual tour or showcasing an event or student work—the gallery template may be your best choice. Galleries are easier to set up than ViewMaster slide shows and can display more photos. For an example, take a look at the Homecoming 2010 photo gallery.
Before You Get Started
There are two steps you need to take before you create the gallery:
- Size images appropriately before you upload them into Ektron. For the gallery, we recommend 640 pixels wide for horizontal images and 480 pixels wide for vertical images. Images can be smaller; 640 pixels is the maximum width. For guidance in resizing images, see How to Size Images for the IUP Templates.
- Ensure the proper placement of the folder where you want the images and content to reside. We recommend that you contact the Web Team before creating this folder. Images cannot be moved from folder to folder, so if the location of the folder needs to change, all of the images would need to be uploaded again.
Procedure
Following is the procedure to create a photo gallery:
- In the Workarea, create a folder where the photo gallery will reside (See note above about folder placement).
- Upload your images into the folder. See How to Add an Image to the Library. Remember to size the photos appropriately first.
- If you are in the Library of the Workarea, go back to Content. Look for the Content tab on the lower left side of the Workarea.
- On the left side of your Workarea, navigate to the folder where you uploaded your images.
- You will now create the content item that will serve as your gallery. On the right side of your Workarea, go to New > HTML Content.
- Give your photo gallery an appropriate title and summary.
- Go to the Template tab on the far right. In the drop-down, change the template to gallery.aspx.
- Check in or submit your content as appropriate.
