New Anxiety Zone Member Gallery!

[GreyGoose]

Greetings Anxiety Zone Members...

I am pleased to announce the addition of a new member gallery to the Anxiety Zone forums. Upload, share, rate, comment, create slide-shows, private albums and more - all without the need to re-register. Simply access the member gallery from your existing Anxiety Zone account by clicking on the member gallery link just above the main menu of any page within the Anxiety Zone forums.

Once there, simply click on Create/order my albums to create your new album and begin uploading pictures, videos, audio files, compressed files or documents. You can also create additional albums and add content to your albums at any time.

You can also click on Modify my albums to change your album title, album description, keywords to associate with your album and more. Another thing you can do is decide who has access to the content of your albums. By default, all album contents are publicly accessible but you can also choose to make your albums private so that only you, your family and certain friends can view your content via a user name and password that you create or you can choose to only allow registered members of Anxiety Zone to view your albums. You can also choose whether visitors can rate your albums or leave comments.

If you get lost, just click on "FAQ" where you will find answers to common questions or you are always welcome to post any questions you may have here in this thread.

ENJOY!

- Regards, GreyGoose

[GreyGoose]

The "new gallery" announcement has been updated and a quick-start guide of sorts has been added (see post above).

- Regards, GreyGoose

[laa43]

Hi Grey Goose, I was just curious, on the new gallery it gives you the option to have you photos password protected. But when someone else goes in to try and find me or enter the password....I can't find anywhere to do so. Do you know anything about this? I looked in FAQ's and it didn't seem to address how to go in and enter a password. Any help would be much appreciated! Thanks for the gallery! Great idea.......laa

[GreyGoose]

*** Creating private, password-protected albums ***

The way the gallery script is designed, you must first have a public album before you can create any private ones. Presumably, this is so that at least one album associated with your name will be visible on the categories page (ie; "Anxiety Zone Member Galleries"). So, if you already have a public album, simply follow the instructions below. Public albums are created the same way as private ones except you don't assign a password to them.

To create a private, password-protected album simply go to the gallery and click on "Create/order my albums" and then below the album display box, click on "New". You will see "New Album" displayed in the text box at the bottom (change this to whatever you want to call your new album). Click on "Apply Modifications". A dialogue box will appear asking; "Are you sure you want to make these modifications?" (click "OK" if you are sure). A new page will appear. Click "Continue". Click on "Modify My albums". From the drop-down menu in the upper-right corner of the page, select the album you just created. choose the settings you want for your new album but When you get to "Album can be viewed by" select "Only me". Choose an album password and password hint. The password hint can be anything you want (ie; brownfox, roadtoad, etc). When you are finished, click on "Update album". Now, from the menu on the left, click on "Upload file". Upload your files and click "Continue". On the next page, click "Continue" again. From the drop-down menu, select the private album you created earlier and then fill in the information on the preceding pages (ie; file titles, file descriptions, file keywords, etc). When finished, you will see "The previous file was placed successfully" and "You have successfully placed all the files". Click "Continue". Now you are back at the main page.

To test your new private album, log out and (while remaining logged out) then at the top of the page, click on "Anxiety Zone Member Galleries". Click on the thumbnail image containing your galleries. You should now see a gray image with the word "Private" on it. Click on it. Enter the password you assigned to your private album (your "hint", if you used one, will already be displayed). This password is what you will give to people (outside of Anxiety Zone) whom you want to be able to view the content of your private album(s). Your family, friends and yourself do not even have to be logged in or have an Anxiety Zone account in order to view your private album(s) just as long as they have the password you provide them.

Here's a private album I created earlier. To view the contents, first log out and (while remaining logged out) visit the gallery. Once there, click on "Anxiety Zone Member Galleries". Click on the "demogallery" thumbnail. Click "My PRIVATE Nature Photos" and use the password "private".

NOTE: Making your gallery private does not prevent other registered members of Anxiety Zone from viewing the contents of your private albums...only the general public. This means that the gray "Private" image will not be visible to registered members of Anxiety Zone.

I hope this helps

- Regards, GreyGoose

[GreyGoose]

New member gallery tutorial (see post above). User-selectable themes have also been enabled in the gallery.

[laa43]

Thank you for your response....I'll try that!   laa

[GreyGoose]

Your very welcome :-).

I've just noticed that the file size limit was a little low. I've just doubled it from 1024kb to 2048kb.

Incidentally, your creation of a private album worked. Screenshot below...

 

- Regards, GreyGoose

[laa43]

It did! Thanks so much! is there a recomended file size if you want to put a lot of pics up?

[GreyGoose]

You can actually upload or link to an unlimited number of files just as long as each one is no larger than the default file size (ie; 2048kb). I think at the moment it is set up so that members can upload 4 files at a time and/or link 3 URLS at a time but these numbers can be increased - or - they can be made variable so that members get to select exactly how many files they wish to upload using the upload wizard (which has not been activated at this early stage).

Hope this helps...

- Regards, GreyGoose

[AmInormal?]

GreyGoose,
Thanks for adding the member gallery.  It helps to put a face with a name and make this site that much more helpful on the road to healing. 

[violet33]

hey GreyGoose,

thank you very much. its very helpful and very clear introduced. im sure if i get question id be able to reffer to the information you've given ;)

violet33