Instructions for Uploading and Displaying Graphics
If you have some photos you would like to share do the following:
- register - Contact John Elberfeld at [email protected]
- sign in
- go to edit tab
- towards the bottom of the page is the Edit panel
- scroll down the Edit panel and until you come to the following:
<gallery>
Image:{filename}|<center>{caption}</center>
Image:{filename}|<center>{caption}</center>
Image:{filename}|<center>{caption}</center>
Image:{filename}|<center>{caption}</center>
Image:{filename}|<center>{caption}</center>
Image:{filename}|<center>{caption}</center>
{...}
</gallery>
- above the line for <gallery> add your name between double equal signs and on the line below it add a sentence or two about yourself. Example:
==Harold Miller==
Harold Miller lives in Oaxaca, Mexico and returns to Berne every summer to visit family.
<gallery>
- click on "Upload file" in left column
- enter the location of the file for your image
- change the name of the file of image to be uploaded so as to be briefly descriptive
- enter a description of the image, your name, date of photo and any details about the picture you would like
- every page must have one or more Categories. For these images there are two that should be added in the panel on the last line:
[[Category:All Images]] [[Category:Natural History]]
- click on Upload
- copy the name of the image
Image:New name of image.jpg
- go back to edit page
- paste name of image in the first line replacing Image:{filename}
- add a caption relpacing the words {caption} with a description of your picture and the year taken.
- your entry should look like this:
==Harold Miller==
Harold Miller lives in Oaxaca, Mexico and returns to Berne every summer to visit family.
<gallery>
Image:New name of image.jpg|<center>Description of image, 2009</center>
Image:{filename}|<center>{caption}</center>
Image:{filename}|<center>{caption}</center>
Image:{filename}|<center>{caption}</center>
Image:{filename}|<center>{caption}</center>
Image:{filename}|<center>{caption}</center>
{...}
</gallery>
- click on Preview on bottom of page to preview what the page will look like.
- if it looks correct then Upload another image File.
- when you are done, Preview and Save.
- If you need more information you can go to Hell...I mean "Help".