How do I create an image gallery in Cascade?
The Image Gallery Asset Factory allows you to build a photo gallery automatically rather than having to manually build a page for each photo. To create your new image gallery, do this:
- Prepare the images you wish to include in your image gallery. On your computer, save the full-size images for your photo gallery into one folder. Make sure all the images have web-friendly names (or rename them so their names are web-friendly).
- If you have Adobe Dreamweaver and Fireworks, open Dreamweaver and go to “Commands > Create Web Photo Album.” Follow the onscreen instructions. You will end up with two folders: “images” and “thumbnails.”
- If you do not have Adobe Dreamweaver and Fireworks, you will have to create these files manually. You want a folder named “images” containing full size images, as well as a folder named “thumbnails.” This folder should contain copies of those same images, only with a width shrunk to around 150 pixels. (The exact dimensions are up to you, but make sure to shrink the image proportionally.)
- Create an image gallery parent folder in Cascade. Create a parent folder named galleries. Within the galleries folder, you can create multiple image galleries.
- Select the galleries folder you just created.
- Go to the New menu and choose New-->Clemson-->Image Gallery. A New Folder wizard window will open and you can fill in the information specific to your new image gallery folder. When completed, choose Submit.

- Your galleries folder will now contain your new image gallery folder. Inside the new image gallery folder will be an images folder, a thumbnails folder, an imagegallery.php file and an index page.

- Upload the images and thumbnails you created in step 2 into images and thumbnails subfolders in your new image gallery folder.
- Select the imagegallery.php script and choose the edit tab. Specify the number of columns you want and whether or not you’d like each image to have a border. Choose Submit.
- Select the index page and choose the edit tab. Fill in the display name, title and author fields.
- Publish your new gallery to the development server. View the index page in your web browser. Edit the imagegallery.php if you want to change the columns and border.
Note: The content area of your index page will appear empty within Cascade. You must publish to the development server in order to see the final result.