You submit your model to the WWI Model Gallery in a sequence of steps:
enter information about your subject (Header, write-up, etc)
up-load photos of the subject
select one of the images to be the header thumbnail.
generate a pre-view of your subject's web page
look at the preview. Repeat steps 2 - 5 until you are satisfied with its appearance
submit it.
The web administrator eventually posts your submission in the WWI model gallery.
The above steps need not be performed in one session. You can stop at any point in the process and resume it later from that point.
Click on create a new submission
This will get you to the "Subject page"
Fill in the box Title with the designation of the model you are about to add to the gallery: ex. "Nieuport 17C1"
Fill in the box Short name with a name for your model. This should be a short unique mnemonic, such as "Nie17". This is only for internal use.
Fill in the box Location with the designation of the category under which you would like to see your model posted. ex: "French Aircraft"
Fill in the Text box with a description of your model and any information that you consider relevant for the readers, taking care not to exceed 3000 characters. For more details about the content and markup in the Text box, See Text markup.
Click on Save
Now look at the bottom of the page: you will see a section labelled Images. This section is for uploading images of your subject.
Click on Browse.. (or Search or Choose, the button label may be different depending on your browser). This will bring into your screen a
File Selection dialog window (this window and its name may be different depending on your browser and Operating system).
Use the File selection dialog window to browse through your files and select the image file you want to insert
(see notes). Once the file is found, click on its name with the left button of the mouse, and click on
Open. This will transfer the name of the file into the box to the left of the Browse button in the
Subject Page.
Click on the Upload button. Please be patient, the server may be slow to respond as it may take a long time to upload your image file. Clicking on
Upload more than once will only make matters worse.
Repeat the previous 2 steps for each of the photos you want to upload of the new submission, always remembering that you can only post, at most, 8 images of any given
model (see notes).
You will notice that a new box will appear on the screen with the names of the image files that you've just uploaded.
One of the photos that you have uploaded will also be used an
index- or head-thumbnail in your Gallery pages, so you'll have to select which one of the uploaded photos will serve this function. To do this,
click on the Make Head TN hot-link in the box to the left of the name of the file corresponding to the image you want to use as thumbnail.
Click on the Generate HTML button. Again, please be patient, the server may be slow to respond.
The Preview HTML hot-link should now appear enabled. Click on the
Preview HTML hot-link. This will cause a separate browser window to appear on your screen showing the page you've constructed and which you are about to submit.
If you're not happy with anything, go back through the procedures above and make the relevant modifications.
Once you're satisfied with your preview, click the Submit button in the
Subject Page. The browser will ask you to confirm this. Once submitted, the subject can no longer be
edited. An e-mail is automatically sent to the Web Administrator. The web
administrator will eventually post your subject in the WWI model
gallery.
You can update subjects that are in your model gallery. The steps are described here :
select a subject from your gallery and download it
update the text as desired
add and/or delete images as desired.
change the header thumb-nail if desired
look at the preview. Repeat steps 2 - 4 until you are satisfied with its appearance
submit it.
The web administrator eventually posts your submission in the WWI model gallery.
The above steps need not be performed in one session. You can stop at any point in the process and resume it later from that point.
On the Main page, Click on Download for update
This will get you to the "Gallery selection page".
This page shows a list of all the subjects that you can download for
updating.
Note: Some of your subject may not appear in the list. In this case, send an e-mail to the Web administrator requesting that the subject be made available for update. Check back later, and proceed from the previous step once the Administrator has processed your request.
Click on the subject that you wish to download. This
will make a copy of the subject as a "work-in-progress"
submission. The subject will now appear as an entry in the list of Pending
Submissions on the Main Page.
Click on the Edit link against the subject.
This will get you to the Subject page. From this point, the
steps are almost identical to those to Create a new submission.
Change the Title if desired.
Do not change the Location field.
The Short name cannot be changed.
Change the content of the Text box with a description of your model and any information that you consider relevant for the readers, taking care not to exceed 3000 characters. For more details about the content and markup in the
Text box, See Text markup.
Click on Save
Now look at the bottom of the page: you will see a section labelled Images. This section is for uploading images of your subject. It should already show the list of existing image files.
If desired, delete any images that you plan to
discard. You do this by clicking on the Delete link next to the
file name.
Click on Browse.. (or Search or Choose, the button label may be different depending on your browser). This will bring into your screen a
File Selection dialog window (this window and its name may be different depending on your browser and Operating system).
Use the File selection dialog window to browse through your files and select the image file you want to insert
(see notes). Once the file is found, click on its name with the left button of the mouse, and click on
Open. This will transfer the name of the file into the box to the left of the Browse button in the
Subject Page.
Click on the Upload button. Please be patient, the server may be slow to respond as it may take a long time to upload your image file. Clicking on
Upload more than once will only make matters worse.
Repeat the previous 2 steps for each of the photos you want to upload of the new submission, always remembering that you can only post, at most, 8 images of any given
model (see notes).
You will notice that a new box will appear on the screen with the names of the image files that you've just uploaded.
One of the photos that you have uploaded will also be used an
index- or head-thumbnail in your Gallery pages, so you'll have to select which one of the uploaded photos will serve this function. To do this,
click on the Make Head TN hot-link in the box to the left of the name of the file corresponding to the image you want to use as thumbnail.
Click on the Generate HTML button. Again, please be patient, the server may be slow to respond.
The Preview HTML hot-link should now appear enabled. Click on the
Preview HTML hot-link. This will cause a separate browser window to appear on your screen showing the page you've constructed and which you are about to submit.
If you're not happy with anything, go back through the procedures above and make the relevant modifications.
Once you're satisfied with your preview, click the Submit button in the
Subject Page. The browser will ask you to confirm this. Once submitted, the subject can no longer be
edited. An e-mail is automatically sent to the Web Administrator. The web
administrator will eventually post your subject in the WWI model
gallery.
There are certain limits that are imposed by the application.
you may have at most 8 pending submissions at any time
each subject may have at most 8 and must have at least 1 image
the total text is limited to about 3000 characters.
image file size is limited to 150 Kbytes.
image files may be in JPEG, GIF and PNG formats only
The optimum image width is 750 pixel. The system will automatically resize down to this. If using jpeg, set the quality to 60 %. Though the file size limit is 150 Kbytes, 40 KB is more than adequate for most images.