User Guide: Adding Photos

This guide will help you add a new album to the Gallery Page.  The task is a little cumbersome but that is because we have taken advantage of one of the best photo gallery plugins (nextgen free version!) and forced oit to do what we want.

To Add a New Album

  1. Click the NEXTGEN Gallery menu item, or use the Gallery option along the top line.
  2. Click on ‘Add Gallery/Images’
  3. Enter the name (title) of your new gallery – make it meaningful and include the year as the frst four digits
  4. Click ‘Create and Select’
  5. Where it says ‘Drag image and zip files here, click the the black bar that states ‘browse’
  6. Search for the right folder where your images are
  7. Select those you want in the gallery using the normal windows mouse options and press ‘Open’
  8. You should now see your images, below which is a black bar stating ‘Upload xx files’ where the xx is the number if photos.  Click this bar.
  9. After you receive the message saying yor photos were uplaoded olay, click ‘Manage Albums’ on the dashboard (under NextGEN)
  10. Where it says ‘Add new album’ enter the same name that you called your gallery
  11. Press ‘Add’
  12. Your new empty album will now be in the first of three columms.
  13. In the second coloumn, scroll down util you find the Gallery you have just created
  14. Click on t and drag it left into your new album
  15. Near the top of the screen press the black button marked ‘update’
  16. Your new album will automatically be displayed on the website under ‘Gallery’
     You must only have one Gallery per Album, and it is the Album that is dislayed on the our website, so the user can click on the album they wish to see.

To change the profile photo of the Album

  1. First you need to find the name of the image you want to use (it must already be in the Gallery assoiated with that Album)
  2. Click the NEXTGEN Gallery menu item, or use the Gallery option along the top line.
  3. Click on ‘Manage Gallery’
  4. Scroll down and find the Gallery, click on its name (it will be in green)
  5. Scroll through the images and decide which one you want as the album cover, make a not of the name (sorry, there is no click and do it on this part)
  6. Click on ‘Manage Albums’
  7. Select the album you want to change using the drop down menu
  8. Once the right Album is selected (will be in the first column of the screen), press the black buton called ‘Edit Album’
  9. Use the drop down selector to choose a different photo (using the name chosen on step 5 above) that will be used on the cover of the album, click on that image name
  10. Press the Blue OK button
  11. Press the black Update button
  12. Make any other changes you want
  13. Now go to ‘Other Options’ under NextGen on dashboard
  14. Click on ‘Miscellaneous’ on left hand side
  15. Click on ‘Clrar Image Cache’, and select ‘OK’
  16. Your album cover will now change