We added the Image Gallery module to Spike@School in response to our users wanting a more structured and faster way to add image to their site (they used to use a page to do this). You can add an Image Gallery by choosing Image Gallery from the Add a New: menu and clicking Add in the Construction Zone. You'll get this page:
It's very simple, just give your gallery a name and a description. I've filled in some sample info here. Once we've clicked Add we'll be taken back to the Construction Zone. Click on your new gallery and you'll get this page:
This is our empty Image Gallery. Galleries can have many Categories in which you store images. Let's make a new category now. A category is just like a gallery in that it just has a name and a description. Once we've made a category and clicked on it we'll get this screen:
Once again, the new image category is empty, so let's upload some images. You can actually upload more than one image at a time by adding them all to a Zip File and uploading that. Our smart programme will unzip the file and add each image seperately.
You'll then be presented with this screen which lets you optionally add a Name and Description for each uploaded image:
When you click Done you'll get this screen which lets you re-order the image however you want:
On the front end of your site you can browse the image like so. Here's the view of the gallery. Each category shows the thumbnail of a random image from within that category:
You can then click on a category to see all the images within it:
To view a full-sized image click on it:
From here you can browse backwards and forwards through the category.
Let's learn some interesting things about Calendars in Spike@School...
