A Multimedia Exhibition
If you want to have an exhibition dedicated to multimedia, here’s how you can do it. In a previous post, I wrote how to show a video in an exhibition.
- Create a new exhibition, called “Multimedia”. (You can change the name later.)
- For each video in your exhibition, find a small picture that you can upload. It does not matter what the picture is! It is just a trick to create a new picture in the exhibition.
- Upload the fake picture. This will create a new picture. Now, follow the instructions on how to show a video in an exhibition to connect the new picture to your multimedia video.
- Repeat for each picture in your exhibition.
- When you’re done, navigate to your new exhibition. You should see your videos, ready to play. Now, get the ID number of the exhibition. At the top of your browser page, where you see something like “http://mywebsite.com/gallery.php?ProjectID=29″, write down that last number. In this example, write down “29″.
Now, let’s say you want a menu item to link to multimedia. By this, I mean a link in the same menu that says, “New Exhibitions” or “About (my name)” or “Blog”. That menu is set in the “Gallery” tab, as an “Advanced Feature.”
- In your list of exhibitions, click on the
- Click on the Galleries tab.
- Click on “Show/Hide Advanced Features”.
- Be sure the checkbox “Use custom menu bar”, next to “Menu Bar (Top)”, is checked.
- In an unused, blank entry in “Menu Bar (Top)”, choose “custom 1″.
- In the “Menu Bar Custom Items” area, further down, write this code into field, “Custom Item 1″
<a href="http://milosbicanski.com/gallery.php?ProjectID=XXX">Multimedia</a> - Remember the ID number we wrote down, above? In place of “XXX” in the code, put that number. In this example, we chose “29″, so you would end up with:
<a href="http://milosbicanski.com/gallery.php?ProjectID=29">Multimedia</a> - Click the “Save and Close” button to save your changes.
Go to your front page, and you should see the new “Multimedia” menu entry.