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ImageIsland Overview
With ImageIsland website software you can upload, manage, and share all your photos on the Web, turning your existing website into your very own Online Photo Gallery! Using your current website and ImageIsland, your photos are uploaded and hosted online, so are always available from any computer, anytime, and from any place in the world. Even your friends and family can view your HTML image galleries live and online. Why even use desktop software or some third party website when you can do the same thing from your current website with ImageIsland? Install ImageIsland in your website today and begin uploading, managing, distributing, and viewing all your photo galleries online! Let us show you how easy it is to install and use ImageIsland.
Easy Installation
To install ImageIsland, all you need is a website and a connection to the Internet. There is no database to install, no plugins, and no desktop software to worry about. Once you have your website and server setup correctly*, you are ready to install the product. ImageIsland consists of folders and web pages. So to install it on your site, simply upload (or FTP) the ImageIsland folder to your web server. That's it! You are now ready to start adding your photos. Simply open a web browser, surf to your ImageIsland folder in your site, and start uploading media immediately!
Getting Started
It's easy to get started with ImageIsland! Once installed, just open ImageIsland in your web browser of choice. You will quickly see the interface and web design is very simple. Most of the navigational elements are clickable dropdown elements. And the layout is designed for maximizing the display of your photos. All features and functions inside ImageIsland are limited to a handful of icons and toolsets. We only provide whats needed to get the job done without overwhelming you with options you do not need. You want to get to your photos, right? With its simple thumbnail viewer and clickable photos, you will find ImageIsland is easier to use than any photo software out there.
Uploading Images
Uploading photos has never been easier. Using a simple upload web page inside ImageIsland, you can start uploading photos directly to your website. The ImageManager in ImageIsland allows you to view and manage, as well as upload, photos to your website. In the upload area, you will see ten upload fields, and a photo submit button. Simply choose photos, graphics, images and photos you wish to upload by clicking "browse" buttons, then clicking "upload images" to upload photos from your computer to the server. Please be patient while your photos upload to your site. The upload page will refresh the page and will then generate thumbnails for all your photos automatically. The new photo images are now in the ImageManager Module and ready for viewing and sharing!
Viewing & Managing Photos
As mentioned above, the ImageManager allows you to manage your photo library. Some of the things you can do with your photos include: Uploading, editing, deleting, resizing, rescaling, rotating, naming, and viewing. You can also grow your online library as large as you need, using this powerful module. A special paging system built into the viewer in this module will allow you to manage thousands of photos easily, and allow you to quickly surf through dozens of images at a time. Different views and sorting features also make viewing your photos a fast and efficient (and fun) process.
Sharing Your HTML Photo Galleries Online
Sharing your photo and image galleries online with ImageIsland is done using image web pages. This is the cool new way to organize photos. Think of a photo web page as a "photo album", or "HTML image gallery". A new feature, called ImageWebPages, allows you to create these image gallery pages and share then online with others. You can create an unlimited number of these HTML photo galleries in the ImageWebPage Module. Once you create a gallery page, you assign photos stored in your library to these web pages. You can assign any photos you like to these pages and create these HTML albums, or web photo galleries this way. Each page can be assigned one of 10 different cool web templates or design layouts. These include clickable thumbnails, photoboxes, next-previous slideshows, and even a mobile page for viewing over phones and handhelds. Combining these special web pages with your photos allows you to get creative with how different sets of images are displayed. You can even control how they are seen online by sending links to these pages by email to your users, or placing links from your website pages to these special image web pages. ImageIsland creates all the HTML for you, so your HTML image galleries are ready for viewing online. Anyone with a web browser and a connection to the World Wide Web can see your photo albums by simply clicking a link to one of your image web pages!
Distributing these pages can be fun, too. As mentioned above, you can send links to these web pages. In the email, your users simply click the link to view the page. The best way to share your image web pages is to simply link to them from your main website. You can easily copy the links to these pages and create that same link inside your main website. You can also copy the path to your photos in these pages and paste those into your main page as photos. In this way, you can manage all your photos using ImageIsland, but share and distribute them using the Web and your current website.
Setting Up Users
The Security Feature in ImageIsland is another very important module. This module allows you to decide which modules in your product are accessible by outside users, and if private, which users can view them using a login. You are always given a Global Administrator account so have ultimate control over who sees what. A special hidden login area appears once you make modules private, and allows you to require a user login to access them. Users assigned to the ImageManager and ImageWebPage Modules can even login and upload, manage, and share their own photos and web pages, without your assistance. In this way, you can turn your website into an Public Photo Portal! You can then create logins for as many as 10 separate users, and allow the whole family, group of friends, or select set of customers the ability to upload and share their photos with you and the world through your website. ImageIsland makes online user photo management easy!
Modules & Skins
All functionality and design in ImageIsland is controlled by two special areas in ImageIsland: Modules and Skins. Modules provide different types of functionality and feature sets in the product. The look-and-feel of the product is completely controlled by CSS and cascading style sheet Skins. These skins allow you to choose different website designs for your pages and control how the overall interface looks to you and your users online. Combined, modules and skins give you complete control over ImageIsland and all its assets.
Important! Did you know you can purchase new modules for your product? At GiantIsland.com, you can purchase new features for your website and enhance your product. Just upload them into the Modules or Skins folders and they are added instantly and ready to use! View the bottom of our Purchase page for a listing of all our custom Modules available for your product.
Fun to Use
Did you know that ImageIsland is actually fun to use? With its gorgeous interface, expanded image and photo display, floating photo thumbnails, and simplified navigational system, ImageIsland makes managing photos online simple and intuitive. In the overall architecture, design, code, database, and interface, we wanted to make sure this was a web product built for our users, not our developers. There is a difference! ImageIsland makes Website Photo Management fun once again!
