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For Windows XP. using 'Picasa' to create the thumnail images and the webpages and using 'WinSCP' to copy them over to the internet.
Sorry if this is very basic/long, but I tried to write it such that even a complete klutz like me can't get it wrong! Once you've got the hang of it this whole process takes about 5 minutes.
It'll be full of spelling/typing mistakes and awful grammar no doubt, so feel free to use the log in and then edit page buttons at the top right hand side of this page to correct it/add advice to it as you see fit.
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Step One
Download the two files located here:
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Once they're finished downloading, open each file and do the usual 'yes, yes, whatever' installation routine. (if in doubt, hit 'i accept', 'yes', 'next', 'ok' or 'finish')-
The one called 'Picasa' and will hunt through your computer for all your photographs and make lots of thumbnail images of them to make it easy to look through them. We will use this software to select the photographs we want to upload and make a webpage from them. The one caleld 'WinSCP' is what lets you copy the webpage from your computer onto you MIT webspace.
Step Two
Now we're going to use the 'Picasa' program we just installed to look at our pictures and select the ones we want to upload.
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If you'd like to select all the pictures in that folder, there is a 'select all' button you can click on next to the green arrow below:
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Here's the bit where we make the webpage! Opposite the folder title (and green arrow) is an 'actions' button with a down arrow on it. Click it, and click on the 'make a webpage' option:
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When it finishes a new window will open up, showing you your new webpage. Clicking on the thumbnails will bring up a bigger version of the picture. Remember that caption you typed in earlier? The software puts it into the picture title for you when it creates the webpage! (green arrow)
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Your webpage is now finished - all we have to do now is copy it from your computer to the web, and we'll need the 'WinSCP' progeam to do that.
Step Four
'WinSCP' is what lets you copy the webpage from your computer onto you MIT webspace. Open up the 'WinSCP' program and you will get a screen that looks like this:
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Type athena.dialup.mit.edu into the box that says Host Name
Type your kerberos ID into the box that says User name
Type your kerberos password into the box that says password
This is a pain in the bum, so once you've done that click on the 'save' button. You'll get a new warning screen telling you that if somebody hacks into your laptop they can steal your kerberos password, doctor your photographs and rack up huge athena printing bills, or words to that effect:
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If you're worried, click cancel and you'll jsut ahve to type in all that rubbish every time you want to upload photographs. If you're as lazy as me, just click on ok. Another box will pop up asking you to give the 'session' a name. Anything will do, then click ok:
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You should now have a screen that looks like this:
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Click 'login' and the usual 'i accept', 'yes', 'next', 'ok' or 'finish' when the new warning message comes up. (you'll only get this message once). You should now have a screen that looks something like this:
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The files/folders on the left hand side are on your computer (top red arrow). The files/folders on the right hand side are on the MIT computer (top green arrow). Everything you put inside the www folder (bottom green arrow) will be visible to the world. The example folder (bottom red arrow) is the webpage we made earlier. All we have to do to make the page visible to the world is copy the example folder into the www folder.
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Open up the www folder by double clicking on it. Now everything on the right hand side is what's on the internet.
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Create new folders by right-clicking in some empty space on the above screen, give it a name and click ok:
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Open your new folder by double clicking it:
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Now click and drag the webpage from your computer (left hand side) into the new folder on the right hand side:
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Click 'copy' on the message box that pops up, and wait for it to finish:
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Step Five
Your photos are now on the internet!
http://web.mit.edu.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/cosic/www/Example%20Photos/Example/
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If you can't remember the folder names you used, type:
web.mit.edu/yourkerberosID/www/
into your web browser and click through the links that appear.
Good luck!