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After you have create web page for fun or for professional use you realize the ease of use, and now you want to create your own Photo CD. The CD should auto-play when loaded. It should have a main index to the different Photo Albums on the CD. Each Album should have a Thumbnail index page and each Photo page should have navigation between the pages in the selected Photo Album.

Here is a step-by-step for creation of a Photo CD:

  1. Create a folder on you hard disk. This folder will become the root of the CD when you are ready to burn the CD.

  2. Create an Index.HQL file in this root folder. See sidebar for suggestions.

  3. If your Index.HQL file includes gif’s or jpg’s ensure that you also have them in the root folder.

  4. Now create one or more Album folders under the root folder. The PageIndex Verb will use the name of the Folder when the Index.HTML file is created.

  5. Create a folder with the name "Original" in the Album folder. Copy your jpg photos to the Original folder. The images in this folder will not be changed. Many times the jpg picture size will be 1024 pixel by 768 pixel which is great for high-resolution pictures. However most computer users are using the 800 x 600 setting so scaling the images to that screen size will make sense. Since the Web Browser is using some of the 800 x 600 pixels a scaling factor of .70 will give you a nice picture size (717 x 538). Note: The PhotoAlbum Verb will do all the scaling for you including the creations of thumbnails if needed.

  6. Place your Album.HQL file in the Album folder. See sidebar for suggestion.

  7. Convert all the Album.HQL files to Album.html files with the NTS HQL Converter program.

  8. First when all the Albums are created you should conver the Index.HQL file to the Index.html. The Page Index file will create the AutoRun.Inf file needed to create the CD an auto-play CD. The Verb will also check for the ShelExec.Exe file that is needed for the auto-play function.

Email us if you need help with your creations of your Photo Albums.
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Sample Photo HQL files:

In the root of the CD you will need the Index.Hql file.


<HTML>
   <HEAD>
    <TITLE>My Photo Album</TITLE>
    <STYLE TYPE="text/css">
      <!-- A:hover {background: Yellow;} -->
    </STYLE>
    <LINK REL="SHORTCUT ICON" 
        href="http://www.go2nts.com/images/ntslogo.ico">
  </HEAD>
  <BODY bgcolor="#C1F5F5"> 
    <table width="100%" border=2 cellspacing=0 
              cellpadding=3 bgcolor="#FFFFCC">
      <tr>
        <td width="1%" valign="top"  bgcolor="#76828F" 
          background="http://www.go2nts.com/images/sideline.gif">
          <img border=0 SRC="dummy.gif" width=28 height=1 alt="">
        </td>
        <td width="71%" valign="top">
          <table cellspacing=0 cellpadding=3 border=0 width="100%">
            <tr align="left" valign="top">
              <td bgcolor="#76828F" >
                <font face="Arial" color="White">
                  Photo Album<br>
                </font>
              </td>
            </tr>
            <tr align="left" valign="top">
              <td>
                <#hql
                  $LF = <br>;
                  Echo = $LF;
                  Echo PageIndex StartFolder='{HOME}' 
                       FileName='Album*.html' 
                       ImageSource='{HOME}Photo1.Gif' 
                       UseLink='FolderName';
                  Echo = $LF;
                #>
              </td>
            </tr>
          </table>
        </td>
      </tr>
    </table>
    <p> 
    <#hql
      Echo Include {HOME}copyright.txt;
    #>
    </BODY> 
  </HTML>

In the root of all the albums you will need the Album.Hql file.


<HTML>
   <HEAD>
    <TITLE>The Album</TITLE>
    <STYLE TYPE="text/css">
      <!-- A:hover {background: gray;} -->
    </STYLE>
    <LINK REL="SHORTCUT ICON" 
        href="http://www.go2nts.com/images/ntslogo.ico">
  </HEAD>
  <BODY bgcolor="#C1F5F5" link="White" vlink="Aqua"> 
    <table width="100%" border=2 cellspacing=0 
              cellpadding=3 bgcolor="#FFFFCC">
      <tr>
        <td width="1%" valign="top"  bgcolor="#76828F" 
          background="http://www.go2nts.com/images/sideline.gif">
          <img border=0 SRC="dummy.gif" width=28 height=1 alt="">
        </td>
        <td width="71%" valign="top" bgcolor="Black">
          <table cellspacing=0 cellpadding=3 border=0 width="100%">
            <tr align="left" valign="top">
              <td bgcolor="#76828F" >
                <font face="Arial" color="White">
                  The Album<br>
                </font>
              </td>
            </tr>
            <tr align="left" valign="top">
              <td>
                <#hql
                  $LF = <br>;
                  Echo = $LF;
                  Echo PageIndex StartFolder='{HOME}' 
                       FileName='Album*.html' 
                       ImageSource='{HOME}Photo1.Gif' 
                       UseLink='FolderName';
                  Echo = $LF;
                #>
              </td>
            </tr>
          </table>
        </td>
      </tr>
    </table>
    <p> 
    <#hql
      Echo Include {HOME}copyright.txt;
    #>
    </BODY> 
  </HTML>

 

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