Captions for Individual Thumbnails:
I am using the neat little program CC PixConverter to generate thumbnail pages for scanned images of newspaper articles. The thumbnails are then linked to full-screen displays of the images on my site. When I first set it up, with a fairly large number of images referenced from a few different, categorized thumbnail pages, I could not find a way to provide a caption for the individual images. Instead, the 'Page Heading' and the 'Page Comment' that I specify for the thumbnail page is repeated for each associated full-scale image page. Since I really needed a descriptive caption for each image page, I went in and manually modified the HTML files and replaced the 'standard' caption with a specific one for that image. I did this for about 100 images, which, although time-consuming, I felt I could live with since I saw it as a one-time effort.
My real problems started when I needed to update by adding new articles, the thumbnails for which I wanted to appear first, i.e. at the top of the thumbnail page.
I am naming the image files in such a way that they will sort alphabetically with the latest article appearing first, but if I regenerate the thumbnail page at each update to accomplish this, I lose all my image captions! So I am back to manually inserting the updated thumbnail information, etc. in the HTML files.
The table set-up of the thumbnail page makes this a nightmare. So now my questions are:
1. Is there anybody out there who has had a similar problem and who has come up with a nifty, time-saving solution? I am a novice and may have overlooked the obvious...
2. Would the CC team consider a program update, which would allow for captions to be specified for individual images? (please say yes!)
I am using all CC for my site, e.g. HTML Editor, PhotoGallery, JukeBox, PixConverter, StylesheetMaker, ColorSchemer, etc., and for all kinds of reasons I prefer to stay with the CC program, rather than Googling for other programs that may do what I am looking for. But maybe I have to give up?
My thumbnail pages are linked to from here:
www.mingas.com/press.html (the full thumbnail pages are reached by clicking on time frames in the right-hand side of the page)
Per
www.mingas.com
