Q How do I upload a gallery to my (flash or html) site?
A All websites have an index file which is the page that opens when your URL (www.yoursite.com) is visited. If you have access to your server and locate your index file, you can upload web photo galleries.
You will need an ftp client to upload folders to your website. An excellent program that is available free is the new
FileZilla which is available for Mac and PC users. You can find the quick start instructions on their
Wiki page.
(If you do not have your username and password to access your site, contact your web designer or web host provider.)
When you have connected to your server, find the folder that contains your actual website. It is often in the public_html folder, but there might be a subfolder within there that will contain your site. You are looking for your homepage which is a file named either index.html, index.htm, or index.php. There will be other files and folders there, too. Once you have found your index file, that is the area you will need to upload the gallery folder -
with all the contents inside.
When the upload is complete, you should be able to go to your site and open the gallery with the address
www.yoursite.com/galleryname (modify for your domain and what you named the gallery folder).
Q I'm having trouble opening the SubPage.htm file (in TextEdit or Notepad).
A TextEdit (Mac users): Close Textedit. Then re-open Textedit and open Preferences. In the "Open and Save" window, place a check mark by the
"Ignore rich text commands in HTML files." Then re-open the SubPage.htm file.
Notepad (PC users): Go to File>Open. In the drop down list for file type where it says
"text documents (.txt)", change it to
"all files."
Note - Be sure to save the file with the same name and extension, for example -
SubPage.htm
Q I've installed the gallery folder, but when I try to run it, I get an error message about missing tokens.
A Close Photoshop and Bridge. Delete the new gallery folder from the "Web Photo Gallery" folder. Check the new gallery folder you downloaded and be sure you're installing it with only the following contents inside:
- Caption.htm
- FrameSet.htm (this file is only in templates using frames)
- images (folder)
- IndexPage.htm
- SubPage.htm
- Thumbnail.htm
You may have installed the folder opened from the zip file. If you purchased a template with the shopping cart, it will have the actual gallery folder inside along with a pdf file of instructions for the shopping cart. You only want to install the folder with the actual gallery.
When you are sure you've installed the correct folder with only the gallery files inside, then re-name the folder. Open Photoshop or Bridge, and see if that solved it.