Sharing Your Photos on a Webpage


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Sharing Your Photos on a Webpage

One of the easiest and most impressive ways to share your digital photos is to display them on a webpage. This way, anyone with access to the Internet can view your photos anytime. iPhoto 6 works with iWeb and .Mac to make it easy to create your own webpages.

After your webpage is published, you’ll have an Internet address that you can give to others. They’ll be able to access your webpage by simply typing the address in their web browser’s address field.

Use a username and password to protect your webpage

You can set up a username and password to prevent unwanted visitors from viewing your website. Click the Site button in the Inspector, and then click Password. Click the checkbox "Make my published site private," and then enter a username and password. If you choose to send an email to announce your site, your username and password information will be included for the recipients.

Your online photos are a different file size

When your photos are uploaded to your .Mac account they are made "web ready." The resolution of each photo is changed to a web standard so that it can be downloaded and viewed more quickly over the Internet.

Create a webpage to post on a different server

If you want to create a webpage and publish it somewhere other than your .Mac account (such as on your school’s or work’s web server), you can do so with iWeb. In iWeb, select your website and from the File menu choose Publish to a Folder. Choose a location to store your site, enter the URL for your site, and then click Choose.

View your photos in a slideshow

When you publish a photo album to .Mac using iWeb, you automatically get a slideshow button added to your webpage. When visitors click this button, they'll see an elegant slideshow of your photos complete with reflections and user controls for navigation.

Publish a photo or photos to a blog

If you want to use your photos as part of your blog, choose one or more photos in iPhoto, go to the Share menu and choose Blog from the Send to iWeb submenu. You can add your own text to the blog page, and then click Publish when you're ready.

Create a webpage to display your photos by following these steps:

In iPhoto 6, select an album to use as your webpage, and then go to the Share menu and choose Photo Page from the Send to iWeb submenu.

Choose a template for your photo page from the options in iWeb.

Type in the text you want for any of the placeholder text. You can also edit any of the photo titles by double-clicking any of the text.

Change the order of your photos by dragging them to another location on the page.

From the View menu choose Show Media Browser if you want to add more photos to your page.

Using the Inspector, you can add shapes or text to your page.

From the Insert menu, choose Email Me from the Button submenu if you want viewers of your page to be able to send you email messages.

From the Insert menu choose Hit Counter from the Button submenu if you want to keep track of how many visitors access your page.

When you're ready to publish your webpage, click the Publish button. You'll see a message with your new website address, which you can give to others so they can access your website.

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