Thread:SnowyMountain/@comment-30571613-20190917182018/@comment-24652145-20191124000313

Sorry, guess I should have been a bit more clear. And I was a bit rushed for time yesterday.

I personally, find it easiest to do my editing in Source Mode not Visual Mode. There are occassionally various embedded command codes and prompts on pages that are not visible in Visual Mode which is mainly graphical.

When you are in Source Mode; it reduces everything to text. Everything. It's a bit irritating sometimes but it does have the advantage of seeing everything on a page; even invisitext. Command prompts are also highlighted and visible which can help if you might mess up and wondering why something isn't appearing bold or italic or whatever.

You can edit in Visual Mode but it's mostly so that you can "see" how or what is going to appear. There are advantages and disadvantages to both modes.

Using the Image Button from the Edit Toolbar is best if you're just dropping and pasting an image on most page articles but the Image Gallery is a bit different. I tried to copy 'n paste the code blocks that I was talking about in Source Mode to explain in my earlier post but the site just tried to create an image gallery with it and an image snapshot just did not work too well.

Let me try to explain; using the Image Button from the Edit Toolbar is fine for a SINGLE image. But when you have a collection of them, it's a bit harder to keep them all straight and organized. Unless all of your pics are of the same type (jpeg, gif) and dimensions, they rarely mesh too well in a side by side format. The computer will autoformat them otherwise and that's why pic pages might look weird.

That's why we built the Image Gallery Page whcih enforces a set of protocols to keep them coherent and without messing each other up too much.

Now, you can follow my earlier instructions and use the Source Editor and simply copy 'n paste the image files but did you use the "Add a photo to this gallery" button? It should be at the bottom of the Image Gallery itself; just above the giant green "Back to Main Article" shortcut arrow. It's got a little blue + button.

It'll go to a new window that will allow you to add photos as well as search the site for images as well as add captions if you want and edit the photos to a limited extent. You can use this if Source Mode doesn't work for you as well.

Oh and searching for images on the site is hard. Basically, our image library is whatever someone has added to it. It does not contain nor does it draw upon the internet for images if that's what you were expecting. So if you want an image, you may have to go to the internet; find it and save/copy it and then download it to the Movie/TV site itself using the Add Image button from the Edit toolbar.

In addition, our search engine is a bit more limited than the ones on the internet. You may have to try different names and even lower case or capitals to find certain images. This is because the searches are sorting through the file names and will pull up those with the closest match. If someone misspelled it or gave it an odd name or something, it just might not come up.

The internet's images usually have "descriptors" that will tell a search engine, "oh, this image might be named BLANKBLANK but it's really an image of Sean Connery" which is why it's easier to look things up on the internet rather than this site too.

Whew. Hope that helps.