Images are grouped by gallery(ies). If you are adding an image using the “Create Image” option you will need to assign it to a gallery. Create the gallery first if a suitable one doesn’t already exist.
Section 5 covers images and image galleries in more detail.
Creating an image
- Save your image in an appropriate format and size. Images used on the website will be resized and cropped by the website for different contexts. You should, save your images “for the web”. Many camera images are several megabytes in size and saving for the web will dramatically reduce the size. E.g. use
- Photoshop: File > “Save for web”
- Corel: Paint Shop Pro: File -> Export -> Jpeg Optimizer. Choose compression settings to make the image smaller (in kB).
- In some circumstances, the image may automatically cropped to fit the available space (e.g. the local image on the home page, or the thumbnails in the gallery at the bottom of the home page). If your image is very elongated, you may find it not displaying as you would wish, in thee circumstances, it’s probably best that you crop it yourself before uploading. Note though that the user will see the full image if they navigate to the image’s own page.
- Add the title: (single line input field).
- Select an image to upload. (file and image upload)
- Write a description of the image (WYSIWYG editor)
- Assign the image to an image gallery (multiple selections). Select the gallery(ies) in which this image will be included. To avoid abandoning the creation process if there is not a suitable gallery, choose a temporary image gallery and come back and revise this setting after you create the new gallery.
The readers’ view of images
The reader will be able to view your images at several places in the website:
- Images placed in the “featured” gallery will be shown randomly as a “Local image” on the home page (this changes each time the user refreshes the home page).
- Six random images from all galleries are displayed in a “taster” image gallery pane at the bottom of the home page.
- Clicking on the “More” link next to the image gallery at the bottom of the home page takes users to a page featuring all galleries, where users can choose which gallery to view.
- Readers of news items and events content can access the image gallery related to that event from that news or event item page.
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