Frequently Asked Questions

• What software do you use for your web photo gallery?
• How do I post photos in the Gallery?

Butlerisland.org's web photo gallery is a cusomized version of Gallery, an open source web photo application written in PHP. Visit Gallery's website to learn more about it.

These directions guide you through the process of adding photos to the gallery on this website using a tool called "Gallery Remote." If you don't want to install Gallery Remote to upload photos, you don't have to. Gallery Remote just makes the process easier -- especially since it can do nice things like resizing images before uploading them to the server.

The process works like this (the first time, subsequent times you can start Gallery Remote and begin from step 8):

You need to be on-line while doing all of this and this seems like a lot of directions, but once you've set up Gallery Remote the first time, it's really easy to use thereafter.

1. Register for an account like so:
1. Go to the Gallery.
2. In the gray bar right below the "Search" field, click on "register". This will open a popup window.
3. Create a username, provide your full name and email address. When you hit the "create" button, it will send you an email that will have your login info and at that point you'll be registered.
4. At this point you'll be able to add pictures to albums that already exist once you are logged into Gallery (see next step). We can give your account privileges to add entirely new albums. Contact us if you need assistance, but if we know who you are we will give your account this privilege within a day or two of you registering.
2. Go to the Gallery application (http://www.butlerisland.org/gallery/) and make sure you can login with your new account -- look for the "login" link. If you see "Welcome, YOUR NAME HERE" in the gray bar, you are already logged in -- continue with the next step.
3. Download Gallery Remote and install it. Most users want the version for Windows labeled "JVM included".
4. Launch Gallery Remote on your PC. In the "Destination Gallery" box, click "Add Gallery URL..."
5. In the new window ("Gallery Remote Preferences"), click the "New..." button.
6. Fill in the following information, replacing the text below with your information as necessary, then click "OK".
   Alias: Butler Island Gallery
   Username: YourUsername
   Password: YourPassword
   Gallery Type: Standalone
   Gallery URL: http://www.butlerisland.org/gallery


7. Click on "Upload" in the left part of the "Gallery Remote Preferences" window then check off "Resize before upload", choose "Album default", and check off "Read EXIF from JPEG files to auto-rotate images".
8. Click the "OK" button in the "Gallery Remote Preferences" window which should now have a listing that says "Butler Island Gallery".
9. In the "Destination Gallery" box in Gallery Remote, click "Log in". This will log you into the Gallery application on the website so you can upload photos. When it's done, you should see the existing albums listed in the "Albums" pane. One of them will be "Summer 2004".
10. If you want to create a new album, click the "New Album..." button (**Only possible if your account has been given privileges to create new albums per Step 1D. If you need to create a new album and we have not given you permission within a day or two of your registration, contact us. Once you have registered, you may still add photos to existing albums, however. Skip to the next step). You can make your new album a sub-album to another album (for example if there was a big event on the island and 5 of us took pictures we might all create sub-albums of a parent event album so they weren't all mixed together.) I generally make the Album Title and Album Name the same thing. The title is the human readable thing people will see in the Gallery on the website, and the Album Name is used to create a URL direct to the new album (for example Summer2004 is the Album Name for the first album, and you can reach it with this URL/Web address: "http://www.butlerisland.org/gallery/Summer2004"). "Album Description" is the text that everyone will see that describes the album like you see on this page: http://www.butlerisland.org/gallery/. Click the "OK" button when you are satisfied with your entries. Now you will see your new album show up in the list of Albums in the Album pane.
11. Now the fun part: adding photos. Here's where you should do what is easiest for you on your computer. Windows users can open Windows Explorer to the folder where their photos are, and then literally drag and drop the pictures onto the name of the album you want to put them in, or you can click the "Add Pictures" button in Gallery Remote and navigate your hard drive to where your photos are and add them that way.
12. When you are ready, click "Upload pictures". This will send them to the server -- then you can admire your work on the website!