How to Add Photos to Website Templates

Video Transcript

"Hello everyone. I'm Terry Bowden with Expert Village, and we're taking a look at a template website program here with Websites One. Now, earlier we added a page and it was a photo album page and we entitled it "actors" because we're on the Actors Club's website so we just felt fitting we'd use that one as the name. So now we're going to go in and we're going to edit the page. So we go into "edit." It's going to come up and going to ask us to change the header and the footer, manage the photos, add photos, and internet marketing. Now here we can add a photo, so let's do that. We're going to go to "add photo." Click on that. Now, it's telling us here you have uploaded zero photos and our upload limit is five hundred photos. I'm mean, that's unbelievable. You're probably not going to use that many, but you have that. Now, it says "click to change" right here to the left, and if you look up here, it says "title" so we can give it a title. Let's say we give it "actor." We'll give it a description. We can type in whatever we want to. And we're going to go over here and we're going to add the photo. Now the photo we're going to be adding are photos that we had made ourselves. We're not getting them from another site or have to have some kind of release, or anything like that. They're ours. Now, if you look on here, too, before we even get to adding one, we can add a photo here of the ones that Websites One are allowing us to use. Comes with the service. And we can have whatever we want to add, so let's add one of these real quick. Let's go to, um, let's just click "people," of course. We're going to add an actor, right? And here's a lovely young lady. We'll click on her, and there she is. She's ready to be uploaded. Now let's go and let's add one from our computer. We're going to add one that we made, right? Alright, let's do that. Click to change. It'll come up. Now, at the top it says it's the library. Now these are the library of the images that they have already in the system. But now we're going to add one, so we go up to, of course, add image. Now, one thing is very important. Now, when you're uploading photos to this, or pretty much any other website out there, it really depends on your connection. If you have a dial-up connection, it's going to be a little bit slower to load it on there and it won't load some photos. It really depends on the size of the photograph that you're going to upload. So be very, very careful. You want to also have a type of program to size your images down, because when you go out there and you take a picture of your mother, loved one, whoever, or a product that you're going to sell, you have to size them down so they can be uploaded easily. Because what will happen is, if it's too large, the program will tell you its too large and you can't upload it. So we're going to go to "browse." Now, if you notice up here to the left, your images, there's a main folder. That's where these images are going to go. So, go to "browse." We're going to go to one sample photo. Of course, we've already made these, and then we go to "add image." It takes a few seconds and there's our photo. It's already in there. So we click on our photo. There it is. We scroll down to save changes, and look there. There's our photos. Let's take a look at it, what we just did. There's our photos. We've added an actor and a little scenery. And that's how you upload a photo to the website."