How to transfer photo gallery with thumbnails from Fireworks?

Question

Hi
I am trying to create a website. I am using Dreamweaver CS3
and for my main homepage I used one of their templates.
From my main page I give a link to photo gallery. I intend to
build a gallery in Fireworks as I will need a thumbnails for my
photos.
My question is how can I transfer the created gallery to
Dreamweaver CS3? I need the same template I used for my homepage
for my gallery?
Please help!
Thanks

Answer 1

jcdesigns wrote:
> I am assuming you are building a photo gallery like you
can in photoshop. In
> Fireworks, are you going to something like:
File>Automate>Web Photo Gallery,
> and pointing to the folder where the images are located,
and Fireworks builds
> the pages, thumbnails and larger images by itself? If
this is the case, then
> you just need to make a link on your home page to the
gallery page.
>
> If you are building this all by hand, meaning you are
making and resizing all
> of the thumbnails and images yourself, you will need to
create a second page
> and place all the thumbnails on that, and link them to
the larger image files
> or pages with those images.
>
> www.projectseven.com has a REALLY good photo gallery for
Dreamweaver and
> Fireworks for a good price. That is the way to go.
Especially if you plan on
> making more photogalleries.
>
Resize your photos as needed to cut down their size use jpg
or png format.
save then in an outside folder.
next inside the directory you use for your web files create a
directory
with either the sme name as the outside folder or name
desired open that
directory.
Open up Dreamweaver and create a Blank HTML page.
Now go to Commands menu and and choose create web Photo
album...
next a menu will pop up and ask directory where images are
located. Then
will ask the destination directory browse to the new
directory you
created. You will also settings for Thumbnail size and
whether to use
captions if you do use captions it will use the file name of
of each
image and you will have to go in and edit the caption names
for the
photos as desired when everything is setup fireworks will
takeover and
create the album. it will create three subdirectories one
with the full
size photos , one with the thumbs, and one with the html
information for
each photo. Plus three other files in main directory one
being an html
file. once completed and Fireworks returns editing back to
Dreamweaver
close and don't save the blank html file. the index file
needed will be
created by Fireworks.
open the index file inside you album directory and edit
cations as needed.
Remember if you do this you'll need a total of 3 times files
of the
photos you use for example.
if you have 30 photos it will be a total of four directories
and 93 files.
for 20 it would be 63 files, for 10 33 files and so on.
If you need to add photos or take away photos the method is
to start
over from scratch and use you FTP program to do a recursive
delete on
the directory then re-upload.
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