PixiePlus Users Guide: Section 1.11


Web Image Galleries

What are Web Image Galleries?

PixiePlus allows users to easily create HTML pages and thumbnail previews of all their images in order to use on the Web. This is done by selecting "Make Web Image Gallery" from the "File" menu.

This feature is highly configurable and includes many options - so many that there is a whopping 8 page wizard in order to configure them. Don't worry, though. Even the the wizard is big all the options contain sensible defaults and you can select "Finish" any time to use the current settings.

The Web Image Gallery Wizard

Since all the pages in the wizard contain their own descriptions the guide will only briefly go over what is on each page.

Notes on index.html.

If you wish the first page to always be the special "index.html" file simply change the output filename from the default of "thumbnails" to "index".

Files created for the image gallery and how to use them.

Once the image gallery is created you need to place the new files on your web site if you want other people to be able to view it. You may do this either by dragging and dropping the new files to an FTP site with Konqueror and Pixie or by using one of the many FTP programs available for Unix and KDE.

You will need to copy both the generated HTML files and the thumbnails. The HTML files will all start with the prefix specified by the "Output filename" option in the wizard, so if you used the default settings you should have a "thumbnails.html" file and possibly "thumbnails2.html", "thumbnails3.html", etc... depending on how many images there are, what the grid size is, and if you selected a frame based style.

The thumbnails are all prefixed by "thb_" and you will need to copy those to the same directory you put the HTML pages.

Some examples

Examples of the different HTML and thumbnail styles are available in Appendix 4.4

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