How to Put Up Photos
A rough guide by Glenn
1. Squash all your pictures down to less than 50k in size (the wiki's upload limit). I use Photoshop's "Automate-->Make Web Photo Album" feature, which makes admirably compressed jpg's really quickly, in a batch; then I throw away the html pages and keep the images. I would suggest uploading jpg's, though you can probably use png's. Stay away from tiff's.
I made my photos 500 pixels in their widest dimension. So 500x375 if landscape, 375x500 if portrait. You can make them bigger, but you'll probably have to compress the jpg's more. It's a trade-off: bigger picture/more compression, or smaller picture/better quality. Up to you.
2. Go to the Photos page, via the link in the right-hand side bar.
3. Click on "Attachments", up top.
4. The password is "nospectators" (NB: no space).
5. Upload your pictures using the handy buttons. Rename 'em if you wanna. You won't see the pictures appear on the page yet, you'll just see their names appear in the list of uploaded attachments at bottom. Also you'll see "File_name.jpg was successfully uploaded." (Or not.)
6. Go back to the Photos page. Click "Edit Page" at bottom.
7. Let's not put ALL our Ignition photos on the same page, OK? Put in a link to a sub-page for your photos, by putting doubled square brackets "[[...]]" around the name; this make it a link to a new page. (You'll note I organized my photos into several pages, to keep the number of photos-per-page down to something reasonable. Nobody likes pages that take four years to download -- especially those with slow connections.)
8. Save the Photos page.
9. Now your page's name should appear as a link with a "?" next to it, meaning it hasn't been defined yet. Click on the link to open your page.
10. Give it a header -- use "!!" for headers -- put in whatever explanatory text you want; put in a copyright notice if you want. Link to each photo using this URL:
http://wiki.bruleurs.net/uploads/Ignition/file_name.jpg
(obviously you replace "file_name" with your image's name, duh.)
Put a Line break "\\" after each caption, or two Returns (to start a new paragraph).
11. When you're done, save the page.
There ya go!