Creating a Photo Gallery

Photo Gallery is a breeze to use when creating your own customized gallery pages to display your pics.

This tutorial will show you how to create a photo gallery

Step 1 - Log-in

To start, go to the xaraonline homepage and login into your account.

You'll be taken to the welcome page of your account. To create a gallery, or to create any other module for that matter, you need to click on Enter Module Store

Step 2 - Create a new photo gallery

Once in your module store, simply select Applications, Photo Gallery, Create

The application will be created and your gallery admin page will open. Here, you can upload images (click Browse and then select your photo from your computer), give the photo a name, name the gallery if you plan to have more than one, and add a caption to the photo. Once you have selected your photo and entered the desired details, simply click Upload Photo to add the photo to your gallery.

Step 3 - Adding the gallery to your website

There are two ways of incorporating your gallery into your website. The simple way is to add a link from your site to your gallery main page on the Xaraonline site. This is straight forward and just like adding a link to any web site.

To find your HTML link, simply go to your module store, and click on Gallery.htm. Your gallery will load and all you need to do is to copy the URL and link to it from your website.

The second involves copying the snippet of script you are given at the end of creating a photo gallery. After you have added all of your photos to your gallery, the final screen presents you with a snippet of code. For example, for the gallery created in this tutorial, the snippet is:

<script src="http://www.xaraonline.com/zym7/AD822EE0AE57FCC6.js"></script>

To add this to my website, I simply take this snippet and paste it into my page. As you can see below, the gallery is now incorporated "live" in my site.

Your Gallery Store is where you go if you ever need to update your photos, change any details, or add another module. You can access it by either going to www.xaraonline.com, or simply clicking on the Admin link at the bottom of your photo gallery.