Ask Agaric: Upload photos and display them on a page with introduction

Description

Hi Ben,

I have some things like photos and some audio files and whatnot I could add to the site.

How do I know where something will end up and how it will be listed on the menus? For some reason I haven't figured that out.

For example, say I want to upload 10 photos from the old contest and want to show them on a page that also has brief text about the last contest. What menu/s will it show up under. Same for a couple of podcast files.

Is it easier for me to just make these entries part of my blog posts?

Ed

Hi Ed,

There's a couple ways to do this. The two (or three) I'm going to talk about can be changed between one another at any time without having to re-upload the pictures.

Option 1: You can upload all of your pictures to Drupal using Create Content -> Image from your user menu.

http://example.org/node/add/image

It's best if you first set up a way to categorize the images you upload, but we can categorize them later also.

This is the easiest way to keep expanding the image set. Introductory text can be added to a view or an image gallery, and closing text can be added to a view.

So to create an Image Gallery to hold your pictures:

http://example.org/admin/content/image

Image galleries use Drupal's core classification system (taxonomy), so we can use the gallery created here to create a more customized view if you choose.

Option 2: Image Assist button

At the bottom of every textarea, there is a small icon (with a green plus sign and a photo) from the Image Assist module. Clicking the icon allows you to select existing images uploaded to the Drupal site or to add new images through the pop-up window, for inserting directly into the place you choose in your content.

This module creates and uses the same real image files as uploading through Create Content -> Image would do, so this solution can be switched to or from at any time.

Audio files are best uploaded as Create Content -> Audio, and they can then be listed in Views and/or referenced in blog posts.

Required Modules

• Image
• (For option 2) Image Assist