Create Web Page Image Index

The Web Page Creation Wizard (Registered version only) allows you to create an HTML thumbnail index for all files in the current mode. These can either be used as an index to files on your computer or to publish your images on the Internet.

To display the Web Creation Wizard select Tools > Web Creation Wizard

Note: If you are uploading to a UNIX web server where case sensitivity is important, select the 'Force lowercase' setting in Advanced Options.

Here is a summary of each step of the wizard:

Step 1: Choose which files to include

Specify whether all files in the current mode should be included in your thumbnail index, or just the selected files.

Also select whether to only include image or all file types.

Step 2: Specifying Save location

Specify the folder where the Web index should be created. All HTML, images and other required files will be copied to this folder so that you can easily publish it to the Internet

Also you will need to specify the name of the first HTML file

Step 3: Page Layout

Allows you to specify the layout of the created pages and whether descriptions are displayed.

Step 4: Page Style

Displays a selection of pre-built styles. Select your preferred style, or choose the custom option to specify your own style settings

Step 5: Other Options

This step provides optional settings for customizing your HTML Page:

• Heading
  Specify the heading to display at the top of each page
• Add a link to your home page
  If you would like to add a link to your home page or other file at the bottom of each page, then select this option. You need to provide two values:
  • The text for the link, e.g. 'Back to Home Page'
  • The actual link. This will generally be a HTML file name such as 'Index.htm' (if it is in the same folder as the Thumbnail indexes), but any can be any HTML supported link, e.g. /C:\Windows\Black Thatch.bmp
• Do not display filenames
  By default, beneath each thumbnail is the filename of the image. If this item is checked the filename is not added
• Add Link to Xequte web site
  Specifies that a small link to Xequte is added to the bottom of each page.
• Use custom images for your navigation links:
  If you select this option then you can specify images to use for the Previous Page, Next Page and Slideshow links. Otherwise a text link is used
• Show visible grid between rows and columns
  By default the grid holding the thumbnails is not visible, if this option is selected a grid is displayed

Step 6: Thumbnail Options

• Number of Thumbnails
  Allows you to specify how many rows and columns of thumbnails are displayed on each index page. If there are more files than will fit on one page then Next/Previous links will be added.
• Maximum thumbnail Size
  These settings allow you to specify the maximum dimensions of the thumbnails. As the image aspect ratio is maintained, images will generally be narrower or shorter than the value you set here.
• Thumbnail JPEG quality setting
  Specify the quality setting for your JPEG thumbnails. This does not need to be as high as you would normally use because the thumbnails are small so image degradation is not as noticeable. A setting of 60 - 70% is recommended.

Step 7: Image Options

Web browsers can generally only display JPEG and GIF type images, so it is recommended that you convert all images to this format. You can also choose to resize images that are over a certain size, so that they fit on screen and load faster.

Note: Typical screen size is 1024x768 pixels

Step 8: Image Slideshow

This setting allows you to add a slideshow page to your thumbnail index. If users select this page then images will be displayed in sequence at the specified delay. You can also choose to use transitions as images flip one to the next (Note: some browsers do not support transitions and will only flip the images normally). You can add a sound file to play in the background.

Controls:

Menu: Tools > Web Page Creation Wizard