How to customize your photo gallery in FrontPage 2003

A photo gallery is a Web page that contains a collection of graphics that are arranged in a specific layout. This article discusses how to customize the appearance of your photo gallery by using Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003. To do this, you have to modify the Real.htm file. The Real.htm file is created automatically by FrontPage 2003.

Customize Photo Gallery

The following example shows how to change the caption of an image to a hyperlink:

1. Create a new disk-based Web, and then create a new blank page.
2. On the Insert menu, point to Picture, and then click New Photo Gallery.
3. On the Pictures tab, click Add, and then click either Pictures from Files or Pictures from Scanner or Cameras to locate your image files. Select an image, and then click Open.
4. In the Caption box, type the text that you want to use for your picture caption, and then click OK.
5. On the File menu, click Save.
6. In the Save As dialog box, type Photo.htm in the File name box, and then click Save.
   
   Note If you want the page to have a specific title, click Change Title in the Save As dialog box, type your new page title, and then click OK.
7. In the Save Embedded Files dialog box, click OK.
   
   Note After FrontPage 2003 saves the page, your Web will have a new folder that is named Photogallery. In the Photogallery folder, there will be another folder that is named Photonnnnnnnn, where nnnnnnnn is an 8-digit random number.
8. Open the Photonnn folder, and then double-click the Real.htm file.
9. Select the text that is under the photo, and then make that text a hyperlink to where you want. To do this, with the text selected, click Hyperlink on the Insert menu. After you have selected or typed your hyperlink, click OK.
10. On the File menu, click Save to save your changes to the page.
11. On the File menu, click Close to close the Real.htm page.
12. With the Photo.htm page open, point to Preview in Browser on the File menu, and then click the browser that you want to use to preview the Photo.htm file.
    
    Note You may have to click Refresh to view the most recent version of this file.

WARNING Do not edit either the Real_p.htm or the Real_x.htm files in the Photonnn folder. Both of these files are used exclusively by Microsoft FrontPage and must not be altered.

Note If you double-click or right-click the photo gallery image, and then click Photo Gallery Properties to make changes, any changes that you made to the Real.htm file are overwritten.

For more information about about working with Photo Galleries, click Microsoft Office FrontPage Help on the Help menu, type photo gallery in the Search for box in the Assistance pane, and then click Start searching to view the topic.