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| Question: How do i save my slide show and make a link for it? |
Answer: There are several ways to do a slideshow and keep it saved, before we get started understand that you save your slideshow through a link and not an actual extra saves show. The first step is to build an album that you want to use for the slide show, do not add any pics to that album that you do not want included in the slideshow. Once you have the album built then click on any pic in that album and open up the picture, click on the slideshow icon on the top menu above the pic display, then while the slideshow is playing copy your url at the top of the browser, copy and paste that url to notepad if you want, sometimes it makes it better if you want to come back to it so you dont loose it until you get it saved here. Now edit your file information on any pic in that album and you will see a display field called Albumslideshowlink that you can use to save that link. You can also post that link inside of your album properties under description just post it inside the description box and people can copy it from there. You can also paste that url on web pages and it will run that slideshow for you on your page.
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| Question: How do i save a link to my album? |
Answer: Edit your profile and you will see there is a profile field for Albumlink, You can only save one albumlink using that field, you may save additional links in the album discription box under album properties.
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| Question: On the Login box i get this message, Warning your browser does not accept scripts cookies, why? |
Answer: It just means that you went directly to the login.php rather than going first to the home page which is index.php, there is nothing to worry about.
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| Question: Why do I need to register? |
Answer: Registration may or may not be required by the administrator. Registration gives a member additional features such as uploading, having a favorite list, rating pictures and posting comments etc.
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| Question: How do I register? |
Answer: Go to "Register" and fill out the required fields (and the optional ones if you want to). If the Administrator has Email Activation enabled, then after submitting your information you should receive an email message at the address that you have submitted while registering, giving you instructions on how to activate your membership. Your membership must be activated in order for you to login.
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| Question: How Do I login? |
Answer: Go to "Login", submit your username and password and check "Remember Me" so you will be logged in on the site if you should leave it. IMPORTANT:Cookies must be enabled and the cookie from this site must not be deleted in order to use "Remember Me".
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| Question: Why can I not login? |
Answer: Did you register and click the link that was sent to you via email?. The link will activate your account. For other login problems contact the site administrator.
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| Question: What if I forgot my password? |
Answer: If this site has a "Forgot password" link then use it. Other than that contact the site administrator for a new password.
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| Question: How do I save a picture to "My Favorites"? |
Answer: Click on a picture and click on the "picture info" link ( ); scroll down to the picture information set and click "Add to fav". The administrator may have the "picture information" on by default. IMPORTANT:Cookies must be enabled and the cookie from this site must not be deleted.
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| Question: How do I rate a file? |
Answer: Click on a thumbnail and go to the bottom and choose a rating.
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| Question: How do I post a comment for a picture? |
Answer: Click on a thumbnail and go to the bottom and post a comment.
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| Question: How do I upload a file? |
Answer: Go to "Upload"and select the album that you want to upload to. Click "Browse," find the file to upload, and click "open." Add a title and description if you want. Click "Submit".
Alternatively, for those users using Windows XP, you can upload multiple files directly to your own private albums using the XP Publishing wizard. For instructions on how, and to get the required registry file, click here.
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| Question: What type and size of a file can I upload? |
Answer: The size and type (jpg, png, etc.) is up to the administrator.
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| Question: What are cookies? |
Answer: Cookies are a plain text piece of data that is sent from a website and is put on to your computer. Cookies usually allow a user to leave and return to the site without having to login again and other various chores.
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| Question: Where can I get this program for my site? |
Answer: Coppermine is a free Multimedia Gallery, released under GNU GPL. It is full of features and has been ported to various platforms. Visit the Coppermine Home Page to find out more or download it.
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Navigating the Site |
| Question: What's "Album List"? |
Answer: This will show you the entire category you are currently in, with a link to each album. If you are not in a category, it will show you the entire gallery with a link to each category. Thumbnails may be a link to the category.
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| Question: What's "My Gallery"? |
Answer: This feature lets users create their own galleries and add, delete or modify albums as well as upload to them.
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| Question: What's "Last Uploads"? |
Answer: This feature shows the last uploads to the site.
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| Question: What's "Last Comments"? |
Answer: This feature shows the last comments along with the files posted by users.
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| Question: What's "Most Viewed"? |
Answer: This feature shows the most viewed files by all users (whether logged in or not).
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| Question: What's "Top Rated"? |
Answer: This feature shows the top rated files rated by the users, showing the average rating (e.g: five users each gave a : the file would have an average rating of ;Five users rated the file from 1 to 5 (1,2,3,4,5) would result in an average .) The ratings go from (best) to (worst).
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| Question: What's "My Favorites"? |
Answer: This feature will let a user store a favorite file in the cookie that was sent to your computer, you do not need to register to add a favorite because favorites are stored on your computer.
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