Creating Galleries
To add a photo gallery to your site, go to content, then galleries.
Click + Add a New Gallery; the Create Gallery box will appear. Enter your gallery’s name in the Title box and any tags in the Tags box. If you’d like to add any extra information about your gallery, type it into the Body box. Click the “Save” button at the bottom.
Click “Upload” under your new gallery and the page Upload Images will appear. Use the “Choose File” buttons to browse your computer and select images for your gallery (you can upload up to five images at a time). Click the “Submit Images” button to upload the images to your gallery.
After the images have uploaded, you will be able to caption them as well as click and drag to arrange them in a different order. You can also delete an image by checking the box on the far left under the “Delete” column as well as choose a cover image by click the box on the far right.
Click the “Save” button to affect your changes.
Comments
Galleries inside galleries
Hi,
Can i created galleries insede a gallery...it would be easier to organize the info.
Thank you,
Lucia
Image orientation
Is their a way to change the size or orientation of the images on our site, specifically in the gallery area? It seems that the thumbnails in all the design themes are horizontal. My images are primarily vertical so the thumbnail chops the picture off in odd places. Even if I could choose which section of the image to put in the thumbnail it would be better.
Image Orientation in the Gallery Area
Claudia,
I am still in the design phase of my site, but very happy with how it is turning out. My site will feature both galleries of my original photographs and a store with my original greeting cards, etc.
This is not my first website, but each is a little different so I had to experiment a bit to arrive at a solution to the same type of problem you seem to be having. I have found that when designing my IndieMade site, it worked well to create a template to be used with all of my images - vertical and horizontal to give me consistency of style. I use PhotoShop for this, but any program that would allow you to create a consistent shape to which you could layer the image and save it as a jpeg would work.
The background of my site is black, so each template square has a black background to which I layer the image then save it as a jpeg. The template square is sized at 570 px x 570 px with a resolution of 100. If the background of your website is white or any other color, you would simply use that color as the background of your square.
For vertical images, the photograph is placed at the top of the square and has a narrow "border" on each side in addition to a small "border" at the bottom. In the case of my site, these "borders" are black since I need to have them disappear into the background of my site. Horizontal images have no border at the sides as the image extends the entire width of the square, but a larger border at the bottom.
I hope this is helpful to you.