Select the locations of your project on your disk.

You can choose the folders for your website as well as the folder for the source of your images.

We suggest you use the following strategy:

1. Create a folder for all of your work somewhere on your disk that can be written to by all users who will use the program.
   Shared Documents is a reasonable location, as is a folder off the top of a disk drive, for example c:\webgallery.
2. Create the following folders in the folder you just created.
   • originals
     Under this folder, you will create folders of original artwork for each exhibition.
   • templates
     This folder is where you should store all of your templates you will process.
   • images
     This folder is used to store any generic images that will be used on your website.
3. Copy any generic images from your website to the images folder.
4. Copy your original artwork to folders contained in the originals folder.

The benefit of structuring your work in this way is that there is a single folder which contains all your work. This makes it very easy to make a backup copy by copying it to a CD or compressing it into a zip archive.

Decide the structure of your website

You may want to divide your website into different areas for each artist. For example, suppose you wanted to have separate folders for prints, paintings, and sculpture.

When you create the website, the program will begin in the location entered in the folder for input. The folder for input must end in a backslash character. It will then create a subdirectory of this input directory with the name specified in the show folder.

This allows you to move the files at a later date. If you choose an image or a template that is located in a subdirectory of the chosen location, the file locations will be shown beginning with an initial dot character. The directory for input must have a backslash on the end.

To select the show folder, enter the name in the box. We suggest naming your shows with names like "show10" or "2004-10" so that they are easy to maintain in future, and have a logical structure.

An Example

Suppose you want to generate a show containing David Hockney paintings, you may want to set the show folder to paintings/david-hockney. Note that the filenames do not contain spaces, and contain a hyphen character instead. Many web servers and browsers dislike spaces in filenames, and they are not allowed in the URL convention. Search engines tend to interpret a hypen as a space in any case, so as a result, your pages in this show will rank higher for search terms like "david hockney".

You can also use this item in a template. It is <@SHOW@>. Possible uses for this item:

• Use it in the document title as base for an image file:
  <img src="<@SHOW@>/../offers/special.jpg" alt="<special offer!>">

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Remember, if you want information on an individual item, click the question mark button in the top right corner of the window.