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Tutorial - Gallery Setup

Setting up a Challenge Gallery:

First, you need to understand and follow the naming convention which is:

Cnn_subject

Cnn_eligible

Cnn_exhibition

Cnn_pending

Where "nn" = current challenge number

"subject" is the current challenge subject like "Simple Tools" or "Portraits" or whatever.

use the "_" (underscore character) for spaces

Second, you will need three graphic files of your choice for the initial representative image for the three sub galleries that will be set up. These do not need to be high quality images nor do they need to be very big. If they are between 160 to 240 pixels wide that will be fine. The images you need are:

The representative image for the Eligible Gallery

The representative image for the Exhibition Gallery

The representative image for Pending Gallery

Here's some examples:

There is some text that needs to be modified, copied and pasted into the galleries.
We'll do that last. We'll start by creating all the galleries.

To get started go to Pbase.com/ctfchallenge and login using the proper user id and password.

click on the "All Galleries" link - this takes you to the root gallery

click on the "edit root gallery" link

page down and find the "Create a New Gallery" bar

fill in "Name your new Gallery" use the naming convention i.e. "c50_tba"

make sure "Create the gallery at root level" is checked

click on "New Gallery" button

We've just created our first gallery and PBase.com has put us in the new
gallery for further editing. That's where we want to be,

Now let's create our three "sub" galleries

We're already in the "Edit Gallery" mode for our "c50_tba" gallery. Scroll down until you find
the "Create a New Gallery" bar again

fill in "Name your new Gallery" use the naming convention i.e. "c50_eligible"

make sure "Create the gallery at root level" is NOT checked

click on "New Gallery" button

(Hint: It is more convinient to have the gallery place holder images prepared before hand.
If you have an eligible header image ready please upload it at this point)

We've just created our second gallery, "c50_eligible" and we're in it ready for editing.

But we want to return to the c50_tba gallery. Click on the appropriate link as shown below

We've created one sub-gallery. Repeat the last few steps to create the remaining sub-galleries

c50_exhibition

c50_pending

The Galleries are there. Now we have to set some parameters and copy and paste some text.

Let's start with a picture of the c50_tba gallery

The EASY stuff first:

Title Key in the Title for the Gallery. This is what everyone will see when they enter the gallery.

html flag Be sure this is NOT checked.

multi-page gallery Empty

style sheet From the drop down box select "css_webdev2"

"alexc" will place a three pixel frame around each photograph.
"ctf_alexc_lj" will not put a frame around each photograph.

And now the harder one:

description this is the text that appears between the Gallery title and above the pictures. The best way to
fill this area is to go to the previous challenge's edit gallery page, highlight all the
text in the description window, copy it into the clipboard and finally paste it here.

Then you have to make sure the dates are correct. Modify them as needed. Refer to the Date Matrix http://www.pbase.com/ctfchallenge/z_challenge_dates_2009 Personally
I like to paste the text into "Notepad" to make changes because I can see the text better.

NOTE: It is important to copy from the description window while on the edit page
of a previous gallery. There are HTML tags and codes that need to get copied. If you do a copy from
the "display" of the gallery you won't get the needed HTML tags and codes.

Update Gallery Button be sure to click the update button and save all your changes.

The primary Gallery for the new challenge is done (for the moment)

Repeat the same steps to set the Title, Description and parameters for the three sub galleries.

When copying description text be sure to copy

from Eligible to Eligible

from Exhibition to Exhibition

from Pending to Pending

The ONLY difference is with the pending gallery, be sure the html flag is checked (see below)

**How to make this top part of the page appear? The shortcut links to the Eligible,Exhibition and Pending galleries of the challenge

First step, let's go to the edit page of the challenge's main gallery page...

Click the "Advanced" link

then...
Please check the "subgalleries link to each other" option

All the galleries are in place, all the text has been entered and updated, all the parameters are set.
There's only two easy steps left to do.

Here's the one we all know how to do.

Upload your three images, remember them! into the three galleries in Eligible, Exhibition, Pending order.

And now the last step!

Let's get the gallery to the top of the root gallery list. When we created it Pbase.com put it at the bottom!

Start by going to the edit page of the root gallery

Scroll down until you see the listing of galleries

Make a note of the sequence number - here it's 410

Continuing scrolling until you get to the new galleries. They should be the bottom of the list.

Change the sequence number (920 here) to a value smaller than the first gallery, say 400

Click on the Update Gallery Images button.

You're Finished!

If you have any questions pertaining to the gallery setup, please email
CTF2008(-at-)grad.com
or post your questions in the forum.

*Any further changes one is willing to make. Changes to the gallery not listed in the gallery setup tutorial? please send an email first.

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