Creating a Photo Album


The most popular type of .Mac Web page has got to be the photo album. E-mailing digital photos to friends and family members can feel like a chore, especially once you realize how easy it is to post your pictures to the Web using one of HomePage's Photo Album templates. Each Photo Album template displays a set of photos you publish as thumbnail images that, when clicked, expand to reveal full-size images. HomePage generates the thumbnails automatically, so you don't have to worry about resizing your images. Published Photo Album pages also give visitors the option of viewing all their images in a slide show, at full size. Photo Album pages are perfect for sharing digital photos of special events and are practically mandatory for new parents.

To Create a .Mac Photo Album

1.

Upload the photos you want to use in your photo album to your iDisk's Pictures folder (Figure 4.17). Place the photos you want to appear together in the album inside their own folder within the Pictures folder. If you plan on making more than one album page, place the files for each page in a separate folderfor example, birthday1, birthday2, and so on.

Figure 4.17. The first step in creating a photo album is to upload the pictures you want to put in that album to your iDisk's Pictures folder.


2.

Using a Web browser, go to www.mac.com and log in to your .Mac account (Figure 4.18).

Figure 4.18. Type your .Mac member name and password into the fields on the .Mac login page, and click the Login button to log in to the .Mac members' section.


The main .Mac members' page loads.

3.

Click the HomePage link at the top (Figure 4.19).

Figure 4.19. Click the HomePage link at the top of the page or the link in the left sidebar to load the HomePage tool.


The main HomePage page loads (Figure 4.20). By default, it opens to the Photo Album page.

Figure 4.20. The main HomePage page defaults automatically to the Photo Album page.


4.

If the Photo Album tab is not already selected, click it to select it (Figure 4.21). The Photo Album templates are displayed.

Figure 4.21. If it's not selected for some reason, click the Photo Album tab to load the Photo Album templates, and then click the thumbnail of the template you want to use.


5.

Select the template you want to use to display your photos from the ones on the Photo Album page.

The "Choose a folder" page loads, displaying the contents of your iDisk's Pictures folder (Figure 4.22). Take the name of this page literally. Photos must be saved to a folder within your Pictures folder on your iDisk to be uploaded as a group.

Figure 4.22. To choose photos for your photo album, click the folder that contains the photos you want to use in the "Choose a folder" window. Once done, click Choose.


6.

Click the folder that houses the pictures you want to use in the photo album, and then click Choose.

The "Edit your page" page loads (Figure 4.23).

Figure 4.23. In the "Edit your page" page, fill in the fields in the chosen photo album template to complete the page. Here, you'll have to fill in a page title, a page description, and brief descriptions for each picture.


7.

Fill in the following fields:

  • In the field at the top of the page, type a name for your Web page. This will appear in the index at the top of your main .Mac homepage.

  • In the page title field, type a title for the page itself.

  • In the text box below the title field, type a few sentences explaining what your page is about.

  • In the text box below each picture, type a label or caption.

8.

If you want your album to contain a "hit counter" that tracks visits to the page, check the Show box to the right of the number 0 at the bottom of the page.

9.

If you want to include a "Send me a message" button (which viewers can click to send you an e-mail message), check the Show box to the right of the "Send me a message" button.

10.

In the "Select layout" section in the upper right corner of the page, do one of the following:

  • Click the 2 Columns radio button to display your photos in a set of two columns on the page (Figure 4.24).

    Figure 4.24. Click the 2 Columns radio button to choose the two-column layout for your photo album.

  • Click the 3 Columns radio button to display your photos in a set of three columns on the page (Figure 4.25).

    Figure 4.25. Click the 3 Columns radio button to choose the three-column layout for your photo album.

The page refreshes to display your new layout.

11.

If you want to see what your page will look like before publishing it, click the Preview button at the top of the page (Figure 4.26).

Figure 4.26. To preview your page, click the Preview button.


The page refreshes, displaying a preview of your page.

12.

If you did not choose to preview your page, do one of the following:

  • If you're satisfied with how things look, click the Publish button at the top of the page.

  • If you want to make changes to your page, click Edit to go back and make changes before publishing your page (the edit button only appears when you're previewing a page).

After you've clicked the Publish button, you're presented with the site's URL, and the opportunity to send an iCard to friends and family announcing the site (Figure 4.27).

Figure 4.27. The final step in publishing your site is the Congratulations page, which gives you the URL for your new page as well as the opportunity to send an iCard announcing the page.


Tips

  • To prevent a photo from showing up on your Web page, uncheck its Show box.

  • To arrange the pictures in a different order than the one shown, simply drag them to their new locations.





.Mac with iWeb Visual QuickStart Guide Series
.Mac with iWeb, Second Edition
ISBN: 0321442288
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2006
Pages: 113

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