NEW INFO

The Seven Hills Camera Club website is under suspension pending a decision by the board about how to manage it in the future. This affects the display of images for the exchange. For now, the 7HCC images will be unavailable.

OLD PROCEDURE INVALDE

What you read below about our procedure is no longer valid but we are leaving it here for future reference in case we need to adapt.

Read no further.

No kidding, stop reading.

Go way, don’t read anymore.

You’ll go blind!!!

The 7HCC images for the clubs’ exchange must be placed in the main “hosted” website under /ccpx/7hcc and must have their filenames  exactly as described below. This is so that the Worcestershire and 7HCC club sites can pull them into the web pages automatically. (Our own site on WordPress uses theses images via references to the main hosted site.)

It may be tempting for editors to just upload images to the WordPress site directly, but the Worcestershire folks won’t have automatic access to them. So don’t do it!

Steps To Follow For Photographers

1. Acquire an image. It’s best if it starts off at about 600 pixels in its largest dimension.
2. Provide text explaining what the image is all about.
3. Send the image and text to the club’s site maintainer(s).

Host Site mainainters…this next part is for you.

1. Log into ReadyHosting’s FTP site. (If you don’t know what this is, you’re not the host site maintainer, so you need to find out who that is.) There are many FTP programs you can use for this. (Check out Filezilla.)
2. Navigate to ccpx/7hcc
3. Optional – you can upload the original image using the original file name to the archive folder (ccpx/7hcc/arc).
4. Resize and upload images according to the naming and sizing rules below. You can just copy over the existing images with your FTP client.
5. Log into WordPress, and access the page 7HCC Exchange Image in the 7HCC blog site. Because of steps 1-4, you should already be seeing the new image in the edit window. If not, try refreshing your browser. If it’s still not there, you may have done something weird in steps 1-4.
6. Optional – you may need to adjust the size parameters of the image in the image dialog. The WordPress interface has basic and advanced methods of doing this in the same dialog window.
7. Change the page title as required (to match the image), change the photo credit, and drop in any text provided by the photographer. Don’t forget to click the Update button to update WordPress with your changes.

Sizing And Naming

Images should have three basic sizes and names as follows:

• Small – longest side is 150 pixels and has a filename of 7HCC-PhotoExchange-150.jpg. 7HCC uses this thumbnail image.
  
• Medium - longest side is 300 pixels and has a filename of 7HCC-PhotoExchange-300.jpg. 7HCC uses this image size.
• Original – longest side is 600 pixels, both 7HCC and the Worcestershire site uses this file. You must name this file 7HCC-PhotoExchange-original.jpg.

There are lots of different ways of resizing images. Some operating systems provide this feature automatically. Others may require you download a program. Do your best.