I’ve been slowly crossing off one of the big to-do items on my list, which is to mine through my hard drive for pictures from college and recent pictures from camping trips and post them to pics.neelfirst. So I finally did all that. There’s pictures from the Olympic mountains, Pinnacle rocks, as well as albums for my second cat Nunin and the Treasure Island festival. I also developed this incredibly long checklist for how to upload a new album to the pictures site. Perhaps a future goal will be to simplify this process in an all-in-one app…
[reduce to 640x480 and upload]
01. Launch Fotosizer, click Add Folder and navigate to hi-res pictures
02. Set Destination Folder to Website/ALBUMS/(name) [lowercase,spaces]
03. Briefly verify everything is okay, then close Fotosizer
04. Launch CuteFTP and log in to Godaddy. Navigate to pics/upload, clear any files
05. Navigate locally to Destination Folder in #02, upload all files
[create album within gallery2]
06. Login at http://pics.neelfirst.com/main.php
07. click “Edit” in the bottom left, under “Options” click “Add Album”
08. For Name/Title/Summary/Description, type same as #02. Set the date, click Save
09. Go to “Add Items”, and then “From Local Server”, choose the pics/upload path
10. select all files, Check all boxes under “Copy base filenames to”.
11. Click “Add Files”. When done, click on album link at the top, copy the URL
12. Go to Edit Permissions, remove all User Permissions except for “neelshah17″
13. In Group Permissions, add “All access” for “Everybody”
14. Logout of administrative account, return to pics.neelfirst.com
[thumbnail, front page setup]
15. Pick one photo to serve as album thumbnail. Resize to 120×90
16. Save in pics/THUMBS/(same name as #4) USE UNDERSCORES IN PLACE OF SPACES
17. In CuteFTP, navigate to pics/thumbs, upload the new thumbnail
18. Move up one level and open index.php for editing. copy lines 39-47 (approx)
19. Edit PHP values for filter, thumbnail URL, link URL from #15 (twice!)
20. Edit date, album group, album title, album description (3 lines)
21. If new group, insert “< option value="name" >name< / option >” below line 26
22. Close, save, download to synchronize local copy.
[final check]
23. Verify public access to album from thumbnail and title.
24. Verify description is three lines deep.
25. Verify album shows up under correct group filters.