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ImageFolio Pro Edition 3.0 User's Guide
Organizing Content into Categories


This document covers the organization and categorization of digital content in ImageFolio Pro Edition 3.0 using hierarchical directory structures.


Overview
ImageFolio supports unlimited categories and subcategories, allowing you to organize your digital content into an deep hierarchical category structure. This offers your site visitors an easy-to-use "point and click" interface to files of interest.

How ImageFolio Deals with Categories
For displaying category names on the home page, ImageFolio scans the ImageFolio3_files/gallery directory and makes a list of all the directories it finds. ImageFolio then generates a dynamic HTML page that contains links to those directories/categories.

For displaying subcategory names on the thumbnail and image pages, ImageFolio scans the ImageFolio3_files/gallery/DIRECTORY directory, wherein DIRECTORY is the name for the directory/category the user is currently viewing, and makes a list of all the directories it finds. If it finds any directories within the current category, it will include links to those categories in it's HTML output.

About Underscores
Due to a bug in Netscape browsers, you need to use underscores ("_"), instead of spaces, when naming a directory. However, ImageFolio will replace underscores with spaces when it displays the directory name as a category.

Adding Categories
When you installed ImageFolio, you created a gallery directory, and you created your first category called Test_Images, a top-level category. Adding new top-level categories is done in the same fashion, with an FTP utility.
  1. Using an FTP utility, log in to your server and navigate to the gallery directory
  2. Create a new directory using your FTP utility's mkdir command

Adding Subcategories
Adding subcategories is essentially the same as adding a category. The only difference is instead of making a directory in your gallery directory, you make it in the ImageFolio3_files/gallery/DIRECTORY directory, wherein DIRECTORY is the directory name for which you would like to add a subcategory.

ImageFolio sets no limit as to the number of subcategories deep you can go. So, you are free to design your category structure any way you wish.

Removing Categories
Using an FTP utility, you can remove a category by removing it's directory. Before removing a directory from your server, you will need to delete all the files contained in the directory.
  1. Using an FTP utility, log in to your server and navigate to the ImageFolio3_files/gallery/DIRECTORY directory
  2. Select and delete all files contained in the ImageFolio3_files/gallery/DIRECTORY directory
  3. Navigate to the parent directory (one level up)
  4. Select and delete the ImageFolio3_files/gallery/DIRECTORY directory
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