TURN YOUR PHOTO COLLECTION INTO AN AJAX-POWERED WEB GALLERY IN A FEW CLICKS!

One of the many useful features of Vista Photo Gallery is it's built in ftp client. This means that you can upload your gallery to your web server in the same environment in which you are developing it.
To use the built-in ftp client, go through the following steps:

1) Start Vista Photo Gallery.
2) Create your gallery or open your project.
3) Click "Publish Gallery" button on the toolbar.
4) In the next step you have to specify the technique you are going to use to connect to the server i.e Publish to folder / Publish to FTP server. In our case we are using FTP.
5) In the 'FTP Location Manager' window specify your domain name without the 'http' protocol, for example: domain.com and not http://www.domain.com.
6) Then enter your FTP username and password.
7) To test the connection, simply click the 'Test FTP Location' button. Then click 'OK'.
8) Now you should specify the remote folder path where you are going to upload the files i.e 'www/gallery'.
9) Then simply click 'Publish'.

* Vista Photo Gallery main area has three display modes: small icon, large icon and details.

Small Icon - an arrangement of icons in a main area which uses smaller icons and alphabetizes across the window.
Large Icon - an arrangement of icons in a main area that uses a larger icon. Arranged alphabetically across the window.
Details view - shows the picture properties across the main area, like Caption, Date modified, Size.

* On the fly filtration of your pictures by tags, date and folders.

* The tooltip with oversize picture and detailed information appears when you hover over the pictures.

* Full size picture preview. Your picture will scale proportionally when you resize your browser window, and the picture will always stay at the center.

Image info.

When you select an image you'll see the various information about it, such as:

• Caption - you can enter any comment or text about the image (up to 512 symbols) in the website photo gallery.
• Tags - when you select an image all tags applied to it will be shown. You can easily add new tags to the selected image or delete some tags.
• File Info - for each image, you will see the file name, full folder path; file size and date of last change.
• EXIF Property - you'll get detailed info about your photos: digital camera model, exposure time, focal ratio, focal length and much more..

Publishing of the web site gallery.

When you are ready to publish your website photo album online or to local drive for testing you should go to "Gallery/Publish Gallery". Select the publishing method: publish to folder or publish to FTP server.

• publish to folder. To select a local location on your hard drive, just click the Browse folders button and choose a location. Then click Ok. You can also set "Open web page after publishing" option.
• publish to FTP server. The FTP Location Manager window enables you to define a number of connections for use when uploading your web site album to an FTP.

You are able to add a new FTP site by clicking "Edit" to the right of the "Publish to FTP server" drop down list. FTP Location Manager window will appear. Now type in a meaningful (this is not the actual hostname) name for your site and fill in the FTP details in the appropriate fields. You will have to type in your hostname, e.g. domain. The FTP port is normally located on port 21 thus this has been prefilled for you already. If your web site uses another port, you will have to enter it here.

Type in your username and password for the connection. If you do not fill in this information, Vista Photo Gallery is unable to connect to your site and thus not able to upload your gallery to website. If this site enables anonymous connections, just type in anonymous as the username and your e-mail address as the password.

You might want to change the Directory as well if you need to have your uploaded images placed in e.g. "www/gallery/". You can specify it in the FTP Folder field on the Publish Gallery window.

Notice: Write the name of the folder where your website gallery will be placed on the server. Notice that you should specify this field; otherwise your website album will be uploaded into the root folder of your server!