ZIA Gallery Maker

How to Install

Double-click the disk image to open it. Drag the ZIA Gallery Maker.app to your 
/Applications directory. 

Step By Step Usage Guide

1 Launch the ZIA Gallery Maker application

2 Add the Artworks You Want

You use Drag and Drop to place images in the Zen Ink Art Gallery Builder window. You can drag images straight from IPhoto, or you can use the Finder to browse to the images you want, and drag them from there. Either way, you drop them in to the Zen Ink Art Gallery Builder window. 

3 Arrange the Artwork in the Gallery

Arrange the Artwork in the order you want them to appear on the website by selecting an image with the mouse and dragging it to the location you want. 

4 Fill in the Details

4.1 Add a title for the gallery in the Gallery Title text field

4.2 Fill in the details for each artwork

Each artwork image displayed in ZIA Gallery Builder has two lines of text below it - the first is the file name of the artwork image. The second indicates whether you've filled in the details for the artwork by displaying Needs Data or Done. 

Select each artwork and type in the details you want to be displayed next to that artwork on the website gallery. You can use a mixture of Western, Chinese, and whatever other Input Manager languages you have installed to fill out each field. 

When you've filled out the details for an artwork image, the Needs Data will change to Done. When all the artwork images are marked as Done, you're ready to write the new gallery out to your computer. 
 
5 Write out the gallery

After arranging the artwork images in the order you want, adding the gallery title, and filling in the details for each artwork, select the Write Gallery button to write the gallery.

Pressing the Write Gallery button will open a File Browser dialog. You can either choose an existing empty directory or create a new one with the New Folder button.  Choose a folder name similar to the gallery title, but with no spaces. For example if the gallery title is 'Zen Enso 2010', you could use 'ZenEnso2010' for the directory name. 

The new gallery will be written to this directory when you press the Open button in the File Browser dialog. This includes:
	• index.html, the main page for this gallery
	• an enlargement html page for each artwork
	• an enlarged image for each artwork
	• a thumbnail image for each artwork

6 Use Cyberduck to upload the new gallery to the live website

6.1 Launch Cyberduck

6.2 Find the new gallery in Finder

Use the Finder to browse to the new gallery's directory you created in step 5. 

6.3 Upload the new gallery to the website

Drag the new gallery directory from your Finder window to your Cyberduck window. Drop it in to the zeninkart.com directory on your website. Cyberduck may put up a dialog asking you if you want to upload the directory. 

6.4 Verify the gallery upload was successful

Verify the new gallery uploaded correctly by using Safari to browse to 
http://zeninkart.com/<NewGalleryDirectory>, where <NewGalleryDirectory> is replaced by the directory name you chose in step 5.

7 Add the gallery to the main gallery page

I'll help you with this once the new galleries are finished. It will involve editing the gallery_header.html, gallery_footer.html files, and creating a new main gallery page that will include a thumbnail from all the new galleries. We'll also remove the old galleries from the website at that point. It will take me on the order of an hour or two once the new galleries are in place to add them to the live site so that visitors see them.