Hi, I'm not really understanding the photo gallery thing in vsd. I now have a music website that I am slowly building in vsd, (www.bluesic.com) but we used to have one I built with frontpage. I had a page called media resources where I could tell the press to go to download a high resolution image they could use of the band. I just made a half dozen thumbnails of these nice big format photos and they could click on the thumbail, open it up and then download it. They could then stick it in the paper, and it was done. We often got media coverage when other bands didn't because we had these high res images and easy access to them. So I had the big images, but since they were held as thumbnails they didn't slow down the page opening up. Now I don't know how to do that in vsd - and I can't seem to figure out how to get the photo gallery to do this for me. I tried searching the forums, but couldn't find anything like this. Everyone else is trying to keep people from taking their photos! I suspect there is a really simple answer... my simple mind sure would like to be pointed in the right direction!

Hiya Vallorie,

I don't think you're going to get photo gallery to do what you are wanting it to and still maintain the quality of your images unless you do what I've done in the past and replace them after you have created your gallery. Basically what you would do is let the photo gallery do it's thing and once you have the gallery created etc. you would then replace the images it created with your big nice quality ones. Making sure of course that the names are the same on them so the files of the program don't need to be changed at all.

This way when you set the medium size image to be clickable it will open a new website page with the larger image that is the nice quality for them to download (copy).

Hope that helps, and if someone knows how the gallery can maintain this on it's own, I'd be interested to know too, but this method worked for me in the past

Disclaimer: I haven't use the gallery in about a year *slaps fingers... shame on you* lol, so it could very well have had updates that addressed this that I'm unaware of

Hi Vallorie,

If you upload the hi-res image to you server you can add the thumbnails to your page in VSD and click the "Link" button to link the thumbnails to the larger image on the server.

1. Open your site in Visual Site Designer.
2. Go to Settings > Add Files. Click Browse to choose the hi-res photo.
3. On the right under "My Website", click "New Folder" to make a new folder and call it "hires".
4. Then select the new folder you just made and click Add. The hires image will now be added to that folder.
5. Repeat this step for all the hi-res photos, then click Ok.
6. On the page you want the thumbnails on, use the image tool to add the thumbnails to the page.
7. Click the first thumbnail and select "Link".
8. Choose the third option that has "http://". There you can type the url to the hi-res version of the image you just added in step 2. The url would be something like: http://www.website.com/hires/bigpicture.jpg

I hope that helps!

Hmm, that method seems very antiquated. Any reason that Vallorie shouldn't just use Link>Link to a document? It does the same thing in about one tenth the amount of time...

I think Monica is trying to make sure a directory for the hi-res and the files are all in the website directory first.

"Antiquated"

Very nice!