Flash Gallery Help

HOW TO START? (WHICH FILES SHOULD BE UPLOADED ON THE SERVER AND HOW?)

1) Please unzip the template after you have downloaded it to your computer. When you have unzipped the template you will see 4 folders. Namely Flash, HTML, Fonts and PSD.

2) Open the "html" folder. (see picture below)

3) Upload all files to the root of your website (this is where the index.html file should be located) This directory is called public_html or WWW). You need to do this with an FTP application such as CuteFTP.

Please note: That we ask you to upload the contents of the HTML directory we send you, so do not upload the entire HTML directory just the contents of the HTML directory, which also include sometimes the "inc" and "images" directory. Sometimes it's needed to create the "inc" and "images" directory manually on your webhost first.

HOW TO SET "PERMISSIONS" ?

Our admin tool requires read and write permission, else you would be unable to update the template

1) After you have uploaded all the files and directories to the web server, you need to change the permission for the config.php file, on your web server so you can modify the config.php file.

2) To do this, go to the file named "config.php", right click on it and select "properties / CHMOD". and do the same with the gallery folder.

3) In the properties window, go to the permission field, and enter 777, then click on "Apply" and after that on "OK"

If you have a problem adding categories please also set the permission for the "categories.mdb" file to 777.

Note that some windows webhosts may work differently and you need to set the permissions in the admin cpanel as provided by your host instead.

HOW TO INSTALL THE GALLERY ADMIN TEMPLATE ON YOUR WEB SERVER?

1) To do this enter the following in your browser URL bar

http://www.yourdomain.com/install.php

If you do not have a domain name yet, use the temporary IP address as provided by your web host instead.

2) Enter your username and password, max size of new pics, X and Y width, etc.

If you would like to use the same dimensions as we did in our sample, please use the dimensions as given in the sizes.txt file.

3) When you have entered all your details, click on "SUBMIT"
and after that you should see the following screen:

4) Please follow the instructions, and delete the "install.php" file from your web server and set "config.php" "permission" to 755.

Now the installation is all done!
Your site would be at:
http://www.yourdomain.com

Your Admin Cpanel can be found at:
http://www.yourdomain.com/admin.php

HOW TO ADD OR RENAME YOUR GALLERIES CATEGORY IN THE ADMIN CPANEL?

1) To do this open the admin panel at

http://www.yourdomain.com/admin.php

2) Enter the name of the required category in the "Add new category" input field, for example "Architecture" and click on "ADD".

Now the category has been successfully created and added to your template.

3) To rename a category, click on the small blue button next to "Architecture" , and in the "NEW CATEGORY NAME" field enter the new name.

3) When done click "Submit Query"

HOW TO INSERT IMAGES INTO THE TEMPLATE?

1) First enter the URL to the admin system in your browser

http://www.yourdomain.com/admin.php

and then click on the "Browse" button.

2) Browse to the photo which you want to add to your gallery and click "open"

3) To upload the file to your web server, click on the "ADD" button.

NOTE:
If the size of your photo is larger than set in step 3, the program will notify you about the size limit, and it will not insert the photo into the gallery. To solve this you need to make sure the pictures are not exceeding the dimensions as set in step 3

4) If your photo's are the correct dimensions they will be added to the gallery.

NOTE:
If you would like a particular photo to be added to the home page, click on the little "circle" and it will be displayed on the main page.

In our latest update there is no circle anymore and instead you need to drag the photo to the top of the list, as it will be be by default the first picture of each category that will be listed on the main page.

HOW TO INSERT THE AUTHOR'S NAME INTO THE TEMPLATE?

1) To do this open the "text.html" file in Notepad. This file is located in the HTML Directory on your computer.

2) Replace the current name ("name1", the text with the yellow background) with your own name, or any other text you would like to use.

3) Save the text.html file and upload the text.html file to your web server.

NOTE:
Note that you can only change the highlighted text, any other changes will cause problems when loading/reading the text.html file.

HOW TO RENAME THE BUTTON LABELS?

This is the same process as changing the author name, or any other content in the text.html file. To do so please do the following.

1) Open text.html in Notepad, search for the current button names, namely("menu2, menu3, menu4, menu4, and replace the text with the yellow background with your own content.

3) Save the text.html file and upload the text.html file to your web server.

IMPORTANT! :
Note that you can only change the highlighted text, any other changes will cause problems when loading/reading the text.html file, so just change the highlighted text only, and do not enter any info outside the yellow text.

HOW TO INSERT OR REPLACE THE CONTENT (text) INTO THE TEMPLATE?

This is the same process as changing the author name, or any other content in the text.html file.

1) If you want to update the text in the "About us" section. Locate the text underneath ////// About ////// and replace all the highlighted yellow text with your own text.

2) Then save the text.html file, and upload the same to your web server.

IMPORTANT! :
Note that you must only change the highlighted text, any other changes will cause problems when loading/reading the text.html file, so please just change the highlighted text only, and do not enter any info outside the yellow text.

HOW TO MAKE THE EMAIL FROM WORK?

Open "snowMailPHP.php" or "mail.php" 
and just change $ToEmail = "mail@yourmail.com"; in the code.

When done save and upload the file

FAQ

Q: When I add images they do not show up in my Gallery Admin tool. They also don't show up in the Flash webpage but I do see them in the new folders created on  the server.
A: You use images with XXXXXX.JPG (all uppercases) please change this to xxxxxxx.jpg (all lowercases)

Q: I use the & symbol in the gallery names, and now can not see any images.
A: The & symbol is not supported and should therefore not be used.

Q: I'm on a MAC and use Textedit to edit the text.html file.
A: Make sure that your edit the file as plaintext instead of HRML to read more about this please click here.

Q: Does each Admin + Gallery Template comes with the respective source files?
A: Yes, we do provide you with the FLA (Flash source files) as well.

Q: How do I set the correct size for the thumbnails and/or photo's?
A: All galleryAdmin templates include a size.txt file, where you can find the correct image size for the thumbnails and/or photo's.

Q: Can I add URL's (hyper links) in the bodtext of the template?
A: Yes, Just open the text.html page in notepad and enter
<a href="http://www.easytemplates.com">click here</a>

Q: I can not delete any pictures or categories?
A: To do this make sure that the "Save" button is clicked and it states "Sort".

Q: I do not see a radio button to put the photo's on the main page?
A: During our latest update we have removed this radio button and now we will put the first picture in the photo list off each category on your main page. You can simply drag the picture in the admin galley interface to the top position if needed. To do this make sure the button is set to "save" instead of sort.

Q: How do I change the name of template in the blue browser bar?
A: Open the index.html page in Notepad, and change the content between the <title>..........</title> tags, save your index.html file and upload it.

Q: I receive the foloiwng error in the video admin section - Fatal error: Call to undefined function: simplexml_load_file() in .....
A: To solve this open the php.ini file and change
;extension=simplexml.so
to
extension=simplexml.so

Q: Why are these templates loading so fast?
A: The templates load fast because all the pictures are located outside the Flash file, and only if the user wants to see a certain picture by clicking on it's smaller thumbnail, the larger picture will be loaded into the Flash file. In this manner you can have hundreds of pictures and still get a fast loading website.

Q: How do I replace the small pictures in the about, contact us , services, etc. sections?
A: This again can be done directly in the "text.html" file,
by simply changing the HTML code that refers to the respective picture, for example <img src="photo2.jpg"> all you need to do is to change photo2.jpg to a new filename, and make sure this picture is indeed uploaded to your we server.

Q: How do I replace the sound file?
A: The sound file are also kept external so you can simply replace the one we used with your own music, or you can remove the sound file if you don't want to hear any music at all.

Q: Does your template support other languages such as Spanish, German, France, Greek, etc.?
A: Yes, we support non-english languages. All you need to do is to save the text file in the UTF-8 format in Notepad. This will allow you to support all unicode characters.

Q: How do I change the font size of the logo/header in the template?
A: In the text.html file you can set the font size in the following manner. &name1=<font size="20">Paul Rowson</font>

Q: I try to edit the FLA file but when I save the FLA I see many errors?
A: To solve this please export the file to the same directory as where you got all the other files, as the swf file communicates with the text.html file.

I use Flash CS3 / Flash CS4 and have done the above but still got a problem. When you want to edit the FLA file in Flash CS3/CS4 you need to make some additional changes to the FLA file

Q: When I try to logon to the admin area it requests for a password and user id where can I find them.?
A: Please open the config.php file in notepad where you will see your username and password.

Q: Why can I not create any new categories.?
A: To fix this you need to set the permission 777 to for the "categories.mdb" file.

Q: I can not add or delete images.
A: Make sure you do not use UPPERCASES in your filename and file extension. On some web servers you can not load the same file twice, so you need to rename the file before uplaoding it again.