Creating Slide Shows

Follow these steps to create a slide show:

Create the album

1. Log in as pack95admin.

2. Go to Picasa to create a web photo album in Google's Picasa service.

3. Follow these instructions to create a web album. Make sure to mark the album's visibility as "Anyone with the link".

4. Copy the URL (or "e-mail link") for the album (see "Link to this album" on the right side of the album's page).

Create the new page for the slide show

1. Click "Create page" at the top of any page (sign in at the bottom of the page first if you don't see it).

2. Select the "Photo Album" template to use.

3. Enter a name for the page following the established syntax, something like "photos-2007-oct-hiking".

4. Don't change the "Put page under Photo Albums" selection.

5. Click "Create page".

6. Select the Picasa Web slideshow gadget properties and paste in the URL previously copied from your Picasa Web album.

7. Click to save the slideshow gadget.

8. Change the web page header to a good name for your slide show.

9. Save the edited web page.

Add a link to the new page

1. Go to Photo Albums and click on "Edit page" (sign in first if necessary).

2. Create a link by typing in a month and album name, following the established syntax (something like "Feb Woodbound Inn Overnight"). The newest links go at the top of the page.

3. Select the album name portion of the text you just entered (e.g. "Woodbound Inn Overnight") and click on "Link" on the toolbar.

4. Add a link to the page you just created by opening "Pack 95 Home" and then "Photo Albums" and then selecting the existing page you just created.

5. Save the edited web page.

You're all done!