• Can I use WebPics to make web pages from my photos in iPhoto?
• My changes do not show up after rebuilding my web pages - what happened?
• I have a new 4 mega pixel digital camera and WebPics does not seem to work with the pictures I have taken with it. Why is this?
• I am having problems using the 'FTP to web site' feature in the Output tab. Any suggestions?
• Can I use WebPics with Image Capture on Mac OS X?
• Can I use some small pictures in place of the previous, next and return to gallery text links?
• Can I put the web pages made by WebPics on my iTools iDisk?
• Can I hand edit the web pages that are generated by WebPics?
• Can I setup my own default values for the various settings in WebPics?
• The thumbnail picture for a QuickTime movie that I added to my web page is garbled. How can I fix this?
• Is there a 'Carbonized' version of WebPics to run under Mac OS X?

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Yes! WebPics has many more features than the current iPhotos Export to Web command. The easiest way to do this is click here and download the 'Send to WebPics' script. Position it someplace convenient on your desktop. Run iPhoto, select the photos you want to use in WebPics and drag and drop them on the 'Send to WebPics' icon. WebPics will be started and your photos will be automatically added to the picture list.

A few important details.

• The Send to WebPics script assumes that your WebPics application is named exactly 'WebPics'.
• iPhoto has a great Undo feature - but it does not save your changes (such as rotation) to the picture files as long a the change can be undone. So if you rotate a file and then send it to WebPics (or anywhere else) you will get a photo that has not been rotated. The only way to force iPhoto to update the picture files is to quit iPhoto and restart it. Hopefully they will address this short coming in a future release.
• Make sure and grab a copy of the AppleScripts for iPhoto that Apple has posted here. They are lots of fun.

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Lucky you! Picture files from 4 mega pixel cameras are really big - often more than 800k bytes. When using WebPics with Mac OS 9 you need to increase the memory size for WebPics to handle these large pictures files. Click on the WebPics icon in the Finder and choose Get Info from the File menu - select the Memory item in the sub menu that appears. Change the 'Preferred Size' to 10000. Now WebPics will handle your pictures just fine.

Alternatively you can run WebPics in Mac OS X and it will get all of the memory it needs without any problem. Or of course you could send your 4 mega pixel camera to me and I will send you my 2 mega pixel camera ;)

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The FTP feature in WebPics does not currently work with Mac OS X 10.1 or 10.2. I am investigating it and hopefully will have this resolved soon.

WebPics uses the URL Access system for moving your web pages to a web site. Early versions of the URL Access system extension had many problems. The best results have been had with version 2.3 (or later) or URL Access. To get URL Access 2.3 you will need Mac OS 9.0 (or later) and use the Software Update control panel. Alternatively you can go here and get the English-North American version and install it for yourself (other language versions and later releases of URL Access may be available by now, it would be best to do a search at the Apple Support web site).

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Yes. Select 'Other...' in the 'Automatic Task' popup in the Image Capture window. Choose WebPics. Now when you download pictures from your camera WebPics will be started, a new document will be created and the pictures will be added to the picture list.

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Yes - but there is not a specific place in the WebPics window to add the pictures. This is a good place to use the HTML quoting feature of WebPics.

Go to the Text options tab. Copy the following HTML code and then use the 'Paste Quoted' item in the Edit menu to paste it into the Previous picture link field.

The Paste Quoted command will put the necessary characters « and » around the text. Here is what this HTML code says:

• Instead of a text link we will have an picture (image)
• In this case the picture file is named 'prev.gif' and is located in a folder called 'misc' that is located in the main folder for our web pages (same place as index.html)
• No border on the picture (border=0)
• A small amount of space around the picture (hspace="4" vspace="4")
• If the browser cannot show images (most can) or the user has images turned off the text "previous picture" (alt="previous picture") will be displayed

Make your web page and then add a folder called 'misc' to the output folder. Inside the 'misc' folder put a picture file called 'prev.gif'. You can experiment with the border, hspace, vspace and alt parts of the HTML to get different results.

Now launch your web page (Launch Web Page in the File menu) and click on one of the thumbnails. You should see your picture file (prev.gif) in place of the 'previous picture' link - clicking on the it will work the same as clicking on the text link.

You can use the same steps to replace any of the link text fields with a picture. For more details about the HTML quoting feature see here.

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• From the Apple web site, click on the iTools tab, then the iDisk picture, and finally click on the 'Open Your iDisk' button.
• If you're using Mac OS X, you can choose iDisk from the Finder's Go menu. You can also access your iDisk folders directly from any file open or save dialog box.
• If you cannot remember your iTools password go to the iTools section on the Apple web site and click on the help button. There you will find information about changing your password (you cannot just get your old password, but you can change it to something you will remember).

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