Introduction FAQ |
| Question: Where do I start? |
Answer: When the Gallery opens you see a list of top-level Categories, each of which is clickable. Click the top-level Category of your choice.
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| Question: Where do I go from there? |
Answer: Next you should be looking at either a list of Albums or a list of the Sub-Categories which belong to the top-level Category you clicked on, or a mix of Albums and Categories.
Click on a Sub-Category or an Album of your choice.
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| Question: What is the difference between a Category and an Album? |
Answer: Albums contain the pictures - they usually contain a set of pictures which belong together.
Categories and Sub-Categories (which may be several levels deep) allow the administrator to group the pictures to try to make them more easily found.
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| Question: Why are the "Albums" and "Files" columns sometimes blank? |
Answer: If a Category has Sub-Categories then these two columns will be grayed out.
If the Category or the Sub-Category contains any Albums then the number of Albums will be listed, along with the total number of separate pictures, Files, in those Albums
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| Question: How do I use the thumbnails in an Album? |
Answer: When you have found the Album you want to look at, click on the Album name or the thumbnail picture under it.
There may be more than one page of thumbnails of pictures in the Album: if so there will be numbers at the bottom right of the rows of thumbnails - click on the page number you want to go to.
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| Question: How do I look at the pictures in an Album? |
Answer: Click on one of the thumbnails to see a larger view of that picture.
Around the picture there are more navigation links.
Along the top of the picture there are buttons which (left to right)- take you back to the thumbnails
- make more or less information show below the picture
- turn on a Slideshow of the pictures so they automatically show one after the other. You turn off the Slideshow by clicking the button under the slides
- send a copy of the picture to an email address as an "ecard"
- move to the previous picture, although you cannot go further back than the first one
- move to the next picture, although you cannot go further forward than the last one
- you can also move to another picture in the Album by clicking a thumbnail on the filmstrip below the picture
- you can also click on the picture itself to see a larger one open up in a new window. You can close this window simply by clicking on it.
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| Question: What is the list of Categories along top of the screen? |
Answer: As you navigate through the Categories, Sub-Categories and Albums a list of these will be placed on the screen so you can see where you are. Click on one of the Categories or Sub-Categories in the list to jump back to that point in the filing structure.
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General FAQ |
| Question: How Do I login? |
Answer: Go to "Login", submit your username and password and check "Remember Me" so you will be logged in on the site if you should leave it.
IMPORTANT:Cookies must be enabled and the cookie from this site must not be deleted in order to use "Remember Me".
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| Question: Why can I not login? |
Answer: Did you register and click the link that was sent to you via email?. The link will activate your account. For other login problems contact the site administrator.
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| Question: What if I forgot my password? |
Answer: If this site has a "Forgot password" link then use it. Other than that contact the site administrator for a new password.
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| Question: How do I save a picture to "My Favorites"? |
Answer: Click on a picture and click on the "picture info" link ( ); scroll down to the picture information set and click "Add to fav".
The administrator may have the "picture information" on by default.
IMPORTANT:Cookies must be enabled and the cookie from this site must not be deleted.
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| Question: How do I rate a file? |
Answer: Click on a thumbnail and go to the bottom and choose a rating.
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| Question: How do I post a comment for a picture? |
Answer: Click on a thumbnail and go to the bottom and post a comment.
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| Question: What type and size of a file can I upload? |
Answer: The size and type (jpg, png, etc.) is up to the administrator.
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| Question: What are cookies? |
Answer: Cookies are a plain text piece of data that is sent from a website and is put on to your computer.
Cookies usually allow a user to leave and return to the site without having to login again and other various chores.
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| Question: Where can I get this program for my site? |
Answer: Coppermine is a free Multimedia Gallery, released under GNU GPL. It is full of features and has been ported to various platforms. Visit the Coppermine Home Page to find out more or download it.
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Navigating the Site |
| Question: What's "Album List"? |
Answer: This will show you the entire category you are currently in, with a link to each album. If you are not in a category, it will show you the entire gallery with a link to each category. Thumbnails may be a link to the category.
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| Question: What's "Last Uploads"? |
Answer: This feature shows the last uploads to the site.
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| Question: What's "Last Comments"? |
Answer: This feature shows the last comments along with the files posted by users.
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| Question: What's "Most Viewed"? |
Answer: This feature shows the most viewed files by all users (whether logged in or not).
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| Question: What's "Top Rated"? |
Answer: This feature shows the top rated files rated by the users, showing the average rating (e.g: five users each gave a  : the file would have an average rating of ;Five users rated the file from 1 to 5 (1,2,3,4,5) would result in an average .)
The ratings go from  (best) to  (worst).
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| Question: What's "My Favorites"? |
Answer: This feature will let a user store a favorite file in the cookie that was sent to your computer.
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