Thread:Fossiliferous/@comment-27173043-20151107145519/@comment-24668482-20151110215838

Hi Juliet,

Apologies for missing the t last time.

So I figured the best way to simplify things for you would be to start the job, and as such set up a template so you can just look at first pics in order to see how to approach adding any more.

So I uploaded the first 45 collections from my set of images and created a new List of Collection Items page that has the images. It is a sub-page of the List of Collections page, and if it works will replace it, but for now is separate.

For the naming convention for the Collection item images, we will use:

C041_Amusement_Park_i03_Balloons.png

The reason the name of the item is at the end rather than the beginning, is so that all the items will be kept in order (sorted by the C000 first and the i00 second so they will be in order from first item in first collection down to last item in last collection when altogether). This is for ease of use later.

In order to save space, names are abbreviated to remove small words where necessary. If a collection name has been shortened, then the shortened version must be used for all 6 items for that collection.

e.g. the Book of Secrets from the Wisdom of the Library Collection becomes:

C002_Wisdom_Library_i05_Book_Secrets.png

and all the items in the Wisdom of the Library collection begin with C00_Wisdom_Library for consistency.

You'll notice that all the images names have spaces between the words on their individual pages but the links use underscores. I used underscores for uploading, the software creates the spaces for name, and likewise it uses underscores for links. So if you use spaces in your file names or you use underscores, the result will be the same. The link will have underscores and the image name on the site will have spaces... so it actually doesn't matter which you use.

Once uploaded, they need categorisation and the the description/copyright template.

For the categories, we will just add 2 for now - 'Collection Items' and 'Collection Item Images'. The Collection Items Category is the root category and not really that important for using the images, but the Collection Item Images Category will be the important one for using, as it will only contain these images and so can be used as a way to access them all easily. If you follow the link to that category you will see why using them makes everything else so much easier (and also why the naming convention above was used to force the items to remain in correct order to easier management). When looking for the images later, you can just open the category to scan all collection item images, rather than trying to look through every single image uploaded to the site using the photos link at top of page.

For the description/copyright, you can have a look at a couple to pictures to see how they are written. But you can just copy and paste an existing one when doing them, changing the details. Note that the 6th item for each collection (item created when combined) is written slightly differently. The easiest way of doing it is pressing edit on the i01 of any collection, copying the whole block of text, and then pressing edit on first item of collection you have added and changing the numbering etc, and then copying that one 5 times (making the slight adjustment to 6th by hand). It is still time consuming, but hopefully the copy/paste will make it a bit easier.

I will probably add more when I have time, so i would suggest that to avoid over lap, that you could start at the bottom of the collections list (with sorting disabled in your game). That way we avoid any wasted effort if you do spend time creating images and I upload the same one first by accident.

I'll do the same for one of the Picture pages as well (tomorrow if I have time), so that there will be a category and template set up for all Picture items ready to go that can be used as guide (and copy/pasted as needed).