This is a so-called “screen-capture” of a typical Gallery page during the “edit process.” This picture shows how Gallery allocates the space on these so-called thumbnail pages. Notice that the very wide space of the column assigned to the right vertical row of small photos is controlled by the longest string of continuous text (no spaces) that is placed in the captions of that vertical row. Notice how this wider text also forces the vertical column width assigned to the other small thumbnails (to the left) to become smaller. As may be seen in the previous “screen-capture,” an extra-narrow thumbnail photo results in an extra-narrow display of the caption below it. This screen capture was done by the ACDsee Photo Browser Software shown in the last pictue in this album.

A “screen-capture” of my computer sereen showing what the photo browser software package called "ACDsee" looks like. It is showing (in dark blue) the “User Comments Data Line" which originally came from the so called "MetaData" in my Canon Digital Camera. The "MetaData" for each individual camera picture is a complete record of all the camera settings such as: date/time, exposure, focus, etc as well as an extensive space for user comments. The Gallery software will eventually be able to receive this standardized "MetaData" format made by all Japanese digital cameras and show this data by a mere “click” on any php Gallery webpage. This is how I will (eventually) use Gallrey Remote to up-load both the captions and the photos simultaneously from my computer to ZMMquality.org/Gallery on the web server. This screen capture was done by the ACDsee Photo Browser Software. As you can see it can even capture its own display on my computer screen!

This is a demonstration photo here to show you the "Gallery Photo Properties" idea. In ZMMquality.org/Gallery, the "Photo Properties" display is only available to the web visitor when: 1) proper EXIF Data has been uploaded AND 2) the chosen picture is being viewed in the Gallery "single picture view mode". It will not be there in the "18 thumb-nails-to-a-page mode" nor the "slide show mode." If you want to see this data for the above photo, you must have a large single picture of the Yellowstone Valley on your computer screen. OK, if you look to the upper right you will see in dark black the word "Properties". When you "mouse click on it" AND scroll the bottom of to the photo caption, you will THEN see the so called "EXIF Data." In the Gallery Software, there is a set of "admin option" choices, seen at the top right of the "thumb nails," which allows the Gallery Website Administrator to choose, among other things, to have the EXIF data displayed at the bottom of every photo. The "admin options" will only be seen if you are officially logged-on as an approved website administrator.

Most computers are unaware of the existence of the EXIF Data. This data was originally put in place by the digital camera itself, and is typically added to all camera digital photos that follow a Japanese Camera Manufacturer's Format. For these photos, the computer file extension is .jpg . The EXIF data can be found as specially labeled files on your computer. Since these files do not normally come to your attention, you will have to search for them, but I can’t tell you how. I have heard of other people seeing and deleting these files as unwanted. I first knew of their existence because this data shows up when using my ACDsee Photo Browser Software. I should think most Digital Photo Browser Software Packages would have the ability to show you the EXIF Data.
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This photo, taken on my ZMM Route Research Trip, shows a view of the Yellowstone River Valley as seen from I-94 Rest Area ~6 Miles W of Miles City MT. Yellowstone River is seen in the distance. This photo is part of an eight photo 360 degree panorama sequence. These panoramas may be seen by clicking on ZMM Route Panoramas Album.
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This is a demonstration photo here to show you a few "tricks" I discovered using while composing and up-loading "Photo Captions" into Gallery (Powered by Gallery v1.4.2, ~New ~Fall 2003). As you may have already noticed, the minimum width of any caption is often, controlled by the width of the photo above the caption. This is especially true in the "eighteen thumbnails" view. As you may have already observed, I have elsewhere in this Gallery used a dotted line, composed of a series of 36 periods (dots) with no spaces to get the width I wanted.

In this caption, I have used a dotted line, composed of a series of 2x36=72 periods (dots) with no spaces here. ************************************************************************ Any series of un-interrupted characters (i.e. no spaces) will do this. For example, a long web-address (URL) in which no spaces are allowed will show up as widening the column of text in the "eighteen thumbnails" view. Here I have not introduced the long dotted line so you can see how narrow the column gets in the "eighteen thumbnails" view.

Another thing I have noticed is that the text print (font size) will stay the same, even if the html code for paragraph is introduced, and/or the "carriage return" key-stroke is used for a paragraphs, as I have done at the start of this paragraph. (Sometimes the "carriage return" key-stroke may come from other text source, such as a Microsoft Word document, and you don't know to look for this particular trouble maker!!) Everything is fine. You get the paragraphs you want and don't notice any problems!

Things are fine until you introduce both the paragraph HTML code and also some other HTML code, such as italics, and now the text in this paragraph is larger. And you don't know where the problem came from!! This I have done in this p paragraph with the bold and the italics. The HTML code for "small" even fails to get back to the starting font size in the caption.
The cure is to use the HTML code for "break." I have done to make this new line left justified. You can see the Result. This problem is probably only in Gallery webpages, and soon may get fixed.


Two of the HTML codes for "break" will be effective in starting a "paragraph" as I have done here. However, as you can also see the size does not go back to the smaller size we started with. If the HTML "beak" code is used through-out the caption, then you do not get the larger font, and I have been able to get a proper display of “nearly paragraphs,” without excessive creation of too much blank space below the gallery picture. This you will consistently see in the My Gallery album, "Sights and Scenes from the ZMM book."

USCA Librarian, Stan Price, recognizes the white-green trees in this photo as "Tea Olive" tree. He says they have a wonderful distinctly different aroma. Having been there and experienced this all wonderful pervading scent in the breeze, I can only agree with him! This paragraph was started with a "carriage return" introduced in a Microsoft Word Document, and imported with this entire caption by “Highlite-Copy-& Paste.”

Here Is a Demonstration Photo To Show What Happens When A Faulty Caption Gets Up-Loaded Into Gaallery. Here I say How To Clear This Problem.

This is a "screen print" of a faulty Gallery Page. What you see here is portion of a thumbnail page with a completely spurious white "data entry box" at the bottom. The words in this box = [center div class="viewcounter"], (plus the additional HTML symbols) show the fault. This evidently cause great problems with the Gallery Software. When this fault is present no further addition of new captions is possible, AND even worse, the problem could not be removed by any action I could do on this faulty page. To remove this problem I went the administrative options and clicked on edit captions.

I am not sure how this fault happened. I suspect my XP 2003 Windows Computer, because I saw other "fussy operation" on this machine earlier.

New Topic: How Was This Image (showing this fault) Created? With this faulty webpage showing on my XP 2003 Windows Computer, I pressed the keys Ctrl & Print-Screen. Then I Launched the Application mspaint, clicked on Edit, plus Clicked on Paste. Then I clicked on File Save As, with the request (at the bottom) to do the save in a jpg file. The application mspaint can be found by Start } All Programs }Accessories } Paint } Click on Icon.

In a Macintosh Computer the Equivalent Result Can Be Done by pressing keys Apple & 3 (this is the "Print-Screen" for entire Screen), then clicked on Edit, plus Clicked on Paste into some sort of an Apple Paint program. If you just want part of the screen, pressing keys Apple & 4, will give a cross hair so the mouse can make a rectangle what you want. Then clicked on Edit, then edit copy plus Clicked on Paste into the Apple Paint program, and save as a jpg image. Many thanks to Larry Nelson, USCA Computer Services for all the instructions how to do this.


A Note About a Great Very Powerful Software Application That Helps You Make WebPages With Least Work, Its A Free HTML Editor Called HTML-Kit. At the top and bottom of my above "Gallery Fault Demonstration Photo", you see unfamiliar toolbars that have nothing to do with the "Faulty Gallery Webpage" shown in the page center. What you see illustrated in all these tool bars, are a small fraction of all the choices that are available in the WebPage Editor (HTML Editor) called HTML-Kit. This wonderful software is available as a free download from: http://www.chami.com/html-kit/ . If you are making, or updating, WebPages, you owe it to yourself to try this editor. This HTML Editor is a great way to quickly switch from the HTML ”coded document in the editor" to "preview" (ie show what the new page will look like) I first compose (write) photo captions in MS Word Text Editor. Then I use HTML-Kit to preview (and check-over) my draft photo captions to see if they are OK. I really should be doing my caption composing (writing), from the very beginning, in HTML-Kit, But I am a bad speller and I have to do a lot of Searching (Using Find Replace), and I find that MS Word is faster and easier for these functions than HTML-Kit. I should add that my HTML Editing Tasks are really quite simple, so I don't really need the full power of HTML-Kit. Also HTML-Kit, which is so very powerful, necessarily requires extensive learning to become comfortable with HTML-Kit, and thus make use of that extra power. ****************************************************************** FileSys1691=ImgGalleryFault050707 LnelsonCtrlPrntScrn}mspaintSaveAsJpg

This is a TopoZone.com map of the Hghest Part of the Beartooth Pass where the ZMM Narrator's "Tiwn Walls of Snow" ("tunnel of snow") was located. Read more about this in my ZMM Sights and Scenes Album for Part II.

I think I made this TopoZone Map by asking for a "save page as" (or on Windows Computer Rt Click + Save Image as).

The narrow red black border around all the thumbnails and all the larger photos (in any one album) can be changed to avariety of standard colors (red, grey, etc ) by going to "administrative options" then "properties" and typing in the color. I have some information on what colors work. You can ask me in an email. The light green background color can be like wise be changed (for any respedtive album) by typing in the colow on the same "administrative options" then "properties" page.