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The Expo contains various galleries, both commercial and private, in which members can display what they wish - works of art for sale, progress with house renovations, new-build house projects, etc
Getting a gallery: Displaying photos uses a lot of disk space and bandwidth so we prefer to open galleries by arrangement. If you have something you would like to display please contact the webmaster with details. Viewing Pictures: From the main 'Exhibition Hall' you can navigate into any main category, or directly into any of the 'sub-albums' or galleries listed on the right side of the page. Click on the gallery you want to view. You will be shown 'thumbnail' pictures of the contents. Click any thumbnail for a closer view of the picture. Some pictures may be enlarged by clicking on them again. If a bigger version of the image exists you will be shown it. Contacting Exhibitors: All exhibitors should have left contact details below their pictures. Failing that, there is a thread with contact details in the Forum. Administering you own Gallery Adding photos:
Configuring your Gallery
The admin options in your gallery are as follows:
Add Photo Explained above Add Photos Add several photos at one time. Custom Fields Add other text fields, besides Title & Description, to an image Edit Captions Edit the Title & Description of your pictures in bulk Properties Adjust the viewing properties of the gallery. Be careful with this as you may make your gallery unviewable, or ugly, or both :) Rebuild Thumbs Have all the thumbnails remade if you've been changing pictures. Resize All Resize (downward!) all your main pictures. This should only be necessary if you have uploaded BIG pictures which are taking a long time for users to download Sort Iitems Change the order of the pictures in your gallery Personalising Photos: Below each photo is a list with the following options. Most are self-explanatory: Edit Text Edit the Title & Description Edit Thumbnail This may not work on your system Rotate/Flip Photo Change orientation of picture Highlight Photo Use this thumbnail as the cover picture for your gallery Move Photo Move pictures between albums Reorder Photo Change the picture order Copy Photo As it says Hide Photo As it says Delete Photo As it says 'Preferences' - Exhibition Hall page (IMPORTANT Please remember, although there is a facility for changing your username and password inside the Expo page, we would prefer that you don't use it. That's because it isn't linked to the other databases on the site, so any changes you make there will not be reflected across the site and could end up with your passwords going out of synchronisation.) Picture Formats Although the gallery software is fairly liberal about different picture formats it will accept, please don't use any GIFS for the pictures you put up. Please stick with jpgs or pngs. The reason (apart from GIFS working poorly on multi-tonal images like photos) is because GIFS bloat enormously during manipulation. All GIFS are generally small in file size because they are in a very 'compressed state'. That compression technology is owned (by Unisys) and licensed out for a huge fee. Proprietary software like PhotoShop makes compressed gifs because it contains the compression software. But most image manipulation software based on web servers doesn't. So gifs that are uploaded to our gallery are first 'inflated' by the server software, then thumbnails and intermediate pictures are created, but then the gifs cannot be re-compressed. As a consequence, a small gif thumbnail can be up to three times larger in file size than the original picture was! JPGs, by contrast, can be compressed for free :o) |
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