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Album Photos
Album Photos is a module that will allow you to upload photos into categorized groups for easy chronological display. You can configure sizes of thumbnails and full sizes of photos to be displayed.
Album Photos is available in the standard and advanced packages.
To begin using the Album Photos module you must do three things:
- Enable the module
- Configure albums and photos
- Enable the menu item
Enable the module
Go to "Administer > Site building > Modules" and check the checkbox for the "album photos" and "photos swfu" modules. This module only has the "Upload" module (which is part of the "core" modules) as a dependency so you must also make sure that module is enabled for the enabling of album photos to work.
Scroll to the bottom of the modules page and click the "Save Configuration" button to submit the form and enable the module.
Configure albums and photos
This bit of the module is actually a lot more convoluted than most, it's confusing but once you do it a few times it will become much easier to manage.
Go to "Administer > Site configuration > Photos upload" to set up basic parameters for the album photos module to operate with. Such options include the path to save the photos (leaving the default is recommended), setting whether or not people can comment on them, whether or not to compress the upload, whether or not to rename them, how to resize thumbnails, previews and full size views of the photos, how to order and display them and more that should be pretty self-explanatory.
After global configurations are set, go to "Administer > Create content > Album" to create a new album in which to upload photos into.
At this point it starts getting unconventional. Go to the menu management at "Administer > Site building > Menus > Navigation" and enable the link to Album photos. After that is enabled, browse to the album photos pages. From there you will see links at the top, if logged in as an admin of the module, to manage images. At that point you can upload, delete, set titles and descriptions, and so on, for any photo uploaded into any given album.