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How to add an Image gallery to your site
I must have thought about doing this a thousand times
Im sure theres other ways of doing this, but this method came to mind, and it works great
besides I was afraid I would mess up the board, so this is definatly a safe method.
in your control panel
1. create a new template and name it “gallery” or whatever you wish, just remember what it is
2. create a new style called “gallery”
3. now goto modify templates
4. expand the list for “gallery”
5. click on edit, “postbits”
6. highlight and copy all
7. import that code into your html editor, I use Dreamweaver
8. you’ll see the entire table setup with bb codes
9. its pretty easy now
10. make the table look like anything you want, just be sure to leave the attachment code
centered in the message area.
11. now “ don’t save anything, or your html editor will insert unwanted code”
12. copy that new code and go back to the VB control editor, which you should not have closed.
13. delete all the code for postbit that is on the screen, now with the prompt in the upperleft corner go ahead and paste your altered code.
14. That’s it
note: you may want to edit the VB options to the size of files you willl allow, also the dimensions, “don’t want a wacked out display”
also if you have altered the look of the original VB default before now, you’ll want to cut and paste your boards altered code to the new style “gallery”
okay have fun....
oops almost forgot: choose the forum you want to be the gallery and select the gallery style as default and turn off the option for users to select a different style.
I must have thought about doing this a thousand times
Im sure theres other ways of doing this, but this method came to mind, and it works great
besides I was afraid I would mess up the board, so this is definatly a safe method.
in your control panel
1. create a new template and name it “gallery” or whatever you wish, just remember what it is
2. create a new style called “gallery”
3. now goto modify templates
4. expand the list for “gallery”
5. click on edit, “postbits”
6. highlight and copy all
7. import that code into your html editor, I use Dreamweaver
8. you’ll see the entire table setup with bb codes
9. its pretty easy now
10. make the table look like anything you want, just be sure to leave the attachment code
centered in the message area.
11. now “ don’t save anything, or your html editor will insert unwanted code”
12. copy that new code and go back to the VB control editor, which you should not have closed.
13. delete all the code for postbit that is on the screen, now with the prompt in the upperleft corner go ahead and paste your altered code.
14. That’s it
note: you may want to edit the VB options to the size of files you willl allow, also the dimensions, “don’t want a wacked out display”
also if you have altered the look of the original VB default before now, you’ll want to cut and paste your boards altered code to the new style “gallery”
okay have fun....
oops almost forgot: choose the forum you want to be the gallery and select the gallery style as default and turn off the option for users to select a different style.
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