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This page should answer your most immediate questions about Web Gallery Mate, but if your questions don't in following list, then please do not hesitate to submit your inquiries online or contact us at support@cooleosoft.com.
    FAQ of using Web Gallery Mate

  1. How to start to use Web Gallery Mate?
  2. How to publish my Web Gallery to Internet?
  3. How to check my Web Gallery out before publishing?
  4. How to build my own Web Gallery?
  5. How to cretae a new channel in under my Web Gallery?
  6. How to get URL of my Web Gallery?
  7. I updated some images in one of channels, how can I update them on Internet too?
  8. I reset size parameters of Big image and Thumb image, how can I do the same change to images on Internet?
  9. How to apply a new template to my Web Gallery?
  10. How to delete a image from my Web Gallery?
  11. How to change channel's sort-order of Web Gallery?
  12. I don't want to delete image(s) from Web Gallery Mate, but I don't wanna publish them to Internet either. What ca I do?
  13. How to copy(move) image(s) from a channel to another?
  14. How to update homepage of Web Gallery only?
  15. How to update channel's homepage of Web Gallery only?
  16. What's different between "Relative images" and "Relative show images" ?
  17. What's the function of setting "Relative information" for image?
  18. How to add a batch images into Web Gallery Mate?

  1. Q: How to start using Web Gallery Mate?
    A: Using Web Gallery Mate is very easy. By following the steps below, you can build your own Web Gallery in a few minutes. Please make sure you have your digital photographs ready before you start.
    There have 2 ways to start using Web Gallery Mate.

    Way 1: Using Web Gallery Mate Express.
    It's simple way that use Web Gallery Mate Express to create a web gallery. This way is suitable for beginer.
    Click here for detail operation reference.

    Way 2: Using Web Gallery Mate directly.
    This way is a little bit complicated than Way 1. But this way is much more flexible than Way 1 too. It's suitable for advanced user.

    (1) In the Site/Channel Tree, right-click the mouse button and select "Add new website" from the popup-menu. You can click the same menu item on the main menu or the relevant button on the toolbars to add new website as well.
    Give a name to your new website and also a brief description. The maximum length of the website's name and description is 255 characters.
    The new website's "Save folder" should not be too long, the longer it is the longer the URL of your web gallery will be.

    (2) Select the new website you just created, right-click the mouse button and select "Add new channel" from the popup-menu. You can click the same menu item on the main menu or the relevant button on the toolbars to add new channel as well.
    Give a name to your new channel and also a brief description. The maximum length of the channel's name and description is 255 characters.
    You have to at least set the "default channel page template" for the new channel, otherwise this channel won't be published correctly. By default, the three valid WGM template's default channel pages' names are "channelpage1.htm", "channelpage2.htm" and "channelpage3.htm" respectively.

    (3) If you want to create more than one channel, please repeat step (2).

    (4) Now, you can begin to add images to the new channels you just create.
    There are 2 ways to add images to a channel. One is to drag-and-drop images from Windows, and the other is to add image one by one though Web Gallery Mate's "Add new image" menu item. We recommend to use drag-and-drop, it's the best and the fastest way to add image(s) to channels.
    First of all, select the channel you want to add images. Then, drag-and-drop images to the image list or add an image by using the "add new image " menu item. You can " edit the image information" after the images are added.

    (5) Repeat step (4) to add images for other channels. Till now, you have done most of the jobs for publishing your web gallery. If you want to do local- publishing (create web gallery in a local folder) only, you have done all the preparation already.
    Note: If you want to accelerate the publishing procedure, pre-generate big and thumbnail images first.

    (6) If you want to publish your Web Gallery to an FTP host on the Internet, please add a new FTP site in the FTP Site list and set up the proper FTP parameters for it.
    Select the site node you want to publish, right-click the mouse button and select the " Publish website " menu item from the popup-menu. According to your setting, you can publish selected website to a local folder or to a special FTP Site you have set up.

    (7)Congratulations! You have just finished creating your first Web Gallery! You can browse your new website in Internet Explorer through the " Browse website " menu item, and send the URL of your Web Gallery to your friends via email. Let every friends of yours share your photographs and happiness on the Internet.


  2. Q: How my Web Gallery is published to the Internet?
    A: Web Gallery Mate uploads your images and web pages to the Internet via FTP, please make sure the following conditions are met before publishing your Web Gallery:
    (1) Your computer is connected to the Internet. If you have installed a firewall, please make sure the port for FTP (default FTP port is 21) is opened on your firewall. If you don't know how to do this, please shut down your firewall and start it up again after you have finished publishing your website.
    (2) You use a web server that provides FTP service and you have an account with the write permission. Add the FTP site with proper FTP parameters in the FTP Site list.


  3. Q: How to view my Web Gallery before publishing?
    A: Select the site node you want to publish in the Site/Channel Tree, right-click the mouse button and select the "Publish website" menu item from the popup-menu, click the "Preview" button to preview the Web Gallery pages. Web Gallery Mate creates all web pages of the currently selected site in a local folder first so that you can preview them in Internet Explorer.


  4. Q: How to build my own Web Gallery?
    A: Please think about the following before building your Web Gallery:
    (1). The structure if your Web Gallery, how many channels you want to have and what images for each channel.
    (2). You should own an Internet host space.
    (3). And then, please click here for details.


  5. Q: How to create a new channel in my Web Gallery?
    A: Select the site node you want to create a new channel in the Site/Channel Tree, right-click the mouse button and select the " Add new channel " menu item from the popup-menu to create a new channel.


  6. Q: How to get the URL of my Web Gallery?
    A: Select the site node you want to get URL in the Site/Channel Tree, right-click the mouse button and select the "Browse website" menu item from the popup-menu to view the URL of the current site.
    Note: The URL is not available until Web Gallery had been uploaded to the FTP site.


  7. Q: I updated some images in one of the channels, how can I update them on the Internet too?.
    A: Select the site node you want to update in the Site/Channel Tree, right-click the mouse button and select the " Publish channel" menu item from the popup-menu and check the "Update publish" option, then press the "publish" button. Web Gallery Mate will update the images on the Internet.


  8. Q: I reset the size of Big and Thumbnail images, how can I make the same change to the images on the Internet?.
    A: First of all, select the channel you want to update in the Site/Channel Tree, and " Generate images " for this channel. Please make sure you check the "Overwrite exist files" option. If you want to update the size of big and thumbnail images for the whole website, you have to repeat this step for every channel in the website. And then, publish website again, all the big and thumbnail images on the Web Gallery will be updated.


  9. Q: How to apply a new template to my Web Gallery?
    A: Please make sure the template you want to apply exists in the Template Tree, and this template has been set as the default homepage template, default channel page template and default detail page template.
    Each WGM template's default template file should follow the naming rule below:
    Default homepage index.htm
    Default detail page detail.htm
    Default channel page channelpage1.htm
    2nd channel page channelpage2.htm
    3rd channel page channelpage2.htm
    If the WGM template's designer follows this naming rule, you only need to change the current template setting in "Edit website information" without any other extra template setting. But if they don't follow this naming rule, you will have to change every channel's template setting in " Edit channel information " and image's detail page template setting in " Image properties setting ".

    After that, republish the whole Web Gallery, the new template will be applied.


  10. Q: How to delete an image from my Web Gallery?
    A: Select the image you want to delete from the Image list, right-click the mouse button and select the "Delete image " menu item from the popup-menu. If you want to delete the image from the FTP Site too, please make sure the "Delete file on FTP Site" option is checked.
    Deleting image is a complicated process, Web Gallery Mate not only deletes the selected image, but also rearranges the other images' position on the channel page and regenerates relative images. If you found something on the web pages that is not perfect, you need to republish the whole channel that you have deleted images from to correct the errors.


  11. Q:How to change the channel's sorting order in my Web Gallery?
    A: After you change the channel's sorting order in the Site/Channel Tree, you have to republish the whole Web Gallery to change the sorting order in every web page. Before you republish whole Web Gallery, please check the "Update publish" option, the system will publish web pages only. If you have lots of channels or lots of images, it will take a certain amount of time.


  12. Q: I don't want to delete image(s) from Web Gallery Mate, but I don't want to publish them to the Internet either. What can I do?
    A: It's simple. Set those images as "Do not permit publish" in " Edit image information " one by one.


  13. Q: How to copy/move image(s) from a channel to another?
    A: Select the image(s) you want to copy/move, and drag them to the target channel directly, all image(s) will be copied to the target channel. If you want to move those images only, please delete the original images after copying operation.


  14. Q: How to update the homepage of a Web Gallery only?
    A: Select the site node you want to update the homepage for in the Site/Channel Tree, right-click the mouse button and select the "Publish website" menu item from the popup-menu, check the "Publish homepage only" option, and press the "Publish" button.


  15. Q: How to update the channel's homepage of a Web Gallery only?
    A: Select the channel node you want to update the homepage for in the Site/Channel Tree, right-click the mouse button and select the "Publish channel" menu item from the popup-menu, check the "Publish channel page only" option, and press the "Publish" button.


  16. Q: What's different between "Relative images" and "Relative show images"?
    A: In Web Gallery Mate, you can set relationship between images. We call a group of images "Relative images" when they are relative to a special image. Technically, "Relative images" and "Relative show images" don't have substantial difference. "Relative show images" is a part of "Relative images" (it can be set in Edit image information). You can think of "Relative show images" as the most important part of "Relative images". On the detail page, we will display the current image and all "Relative show images", and put titles of the "Relative images" at the bottom of the page as "rest of the story".

  17. Q: What's the purpose of setting "Relative information" for image?
    A: In most situations, images are not isolated. People normally use several pictures to tell a story. Using "Relative information" you can put more than one image into a group so that they can be displayed on the same detail page.


  18. Q: How to add several images at the same time to Web Gallery Mate?
    A: Select the image files in Windows Explorer, and drag-and-drop them into the Image list. Please make sure that the currently selected channel in the Site/Channel Tree is the channel you want to add new images.
    After adding the new image files, you can edit image information if necessary.

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