Creating a Photo Album

A Photo Album is a web slideshow which is although a little cryptic, very simple to create. The main idea is to create two wiki pages. The first page is a 'HomePage' for your album while the second page is a cryptic Index of the Photo pages in your album.

Choose a Name for your Album

Choose a simple descriptive name for your album such as 'Renee'. While you want to keep the name simple, you want to make it unique enough to not conflict with future albums that you might want to make.

Use the name you chose whereever you see <name> referenced in this HowTo. So if you see Album.<name>, in our example this would actually be Album.Renee.

Creating the Album HomePage

This is where you can put some words about the Album your are about to create. This page should be named after your album, Album.<name>. For a simple example of this, look here. To see how this is done, look here.

The bottom of this page will be automatically populated with a tabular index of thumbnails for you, you do not have to do this. The magic behind this index is coded in the Album.GroupFooter page, take a look if you are interested.

Creating the Album Index

This is where you define a list of Photos that you would like make into an album. Create a wiki page in the Index group with the name of your album, Index.<name>.

A template for this page will automatically be created for you when you start to edit a page in the Index group, but I will describe how this works here anyway.

The content of this page should look like this:

* [[ Photos.<Photo1>?Trail=Index.<name> ]]-
* [[ Photos.<Photo2>?Trail=Index.<name> ]]-
...
* [[ Photos.<PhotoX>?Trail=Index.<name> ]]-
(:if fullname Index.<name>:) (:redirect Album.<name>:) (:if:)

Where <PhotoN> is the name of the Photo page to add to the album.

Example:

* [[ Photos.Imgp1130?Trail=Index.Renee ]]-
* [[ Photos.Imgp1104?Trail=Index.Renee ]]-
(:if fullname Index.Renee:)(:redirect Album.Renee:) (:if:)

That's it, you're done!

A helpfull shortcut

This page contains a trail link for every current photo. You can easily cut & paste ranges of photos from here to make new trails even easier.