I had created a large photo gallery of Period Drama images from films. I currently have 23,000+ rows in the database and that is only the tip of the eventual iceberg.

I want to extend the Zenphoto to more than just a gallery. I will have exhaustive descriptions of the specific film being displayed. I will video and most likely audio (theme music). This is going to take the place of my 2000 webpages that have been created, so that all I have on a film is in one place.

Here are my questions.

1. Is there a way to place an image where the default look says .flv or mp3 - this could be in general - like something stating FILM TRAILERS of THEME MUSIC but preferably something specific?

2. I cannot find any information on what you do with "codeblocks" and or "custom data".

3. This is where my naivte really shows. Where can a put the meta data per category for the search engines to pick up?

4. In the gallery album view, is there a way to show the description or is it only shown when you click on the single image?

Thanks for the help, I'm sure they're be more. I've already got several years of hard work into this site and now I'm going to depend on Zenphoto to pull the train.

[i]I want to extend the Zenphoto to more than just a gallery[/i]
Please review the glossary. "Gallery" commonly refers to the Zenphoto site in total, all else are albums.

1. I don't understand the question actually. You can use videothumbs. See the troubleshooting how to create them.

2. Codeblock are documentatend and can contain php code (or html or just text as well) which then would be exectuted if the item is displayed (if the theme supports the usage of codeblocks)
Custom data is just what it is a field you can use for what you wish to (which you can do with a lot of fields, "location" must not contain a location).

3. If you mean the `<meta>` meta data you surely know that virtually no search engine cares for these anymore. But there is a plugin for html meta data to generated all these from hte page's content.

4. What description? Of an album, of an image? What is displayed is a matter of the theme used and how it is setup. Only your web techique knowledge is the limit. If you want to learn more about theming read the theming tutorial.

I would generally suggest you install Zenphoto and play around to see yourself before asking all kinds of questions about things you can just try out to see how they work.

Thank you for your quick reply although a bit condescending. I'm sorry to be taking your time. I am a 66 year old widow that has been doing websites since 1997 and have been using Zen for several years, but only in a capacity for photo sharing. It's a lovely product.

Surely, I do NOT know that meta data has virtually little use on search engines. Dreamweaver Creative Suite seems to indicate different, but I will look into what has more relevance these days.

The codeblock sounds like it will be very useful. I used the Users Guide and searched for codeblock and there is no hit on it. I didn't know where to go next. I will research further on your custom data and I don't understand your answer. I have put data into that box and nothing shows on the screen.

As for description, this is what I meant. You are inside an album and see 6 images. You click on one image and you see the description. My question has been if it were possible to see the description when you are in the album looking at the 6 images. Example. I have 6 presidents showing. I would like to have the name of each president showing under the image before you actually clicked on the single image itself.

Again, I am sorry to take up your time.

It is certainly possible to show the descriptions under (by, over) the image thumbnail. It is something you theme must do, though. The function you want is `printImageDesc()`. Please note that there is a distinction between the description and the title of an object. I would expect you would want to make the title of the president's image his name and the description some more detailed information about him.

`printImageDesc()` and all the functions you might want to use are described in the functions guide. If you are going to be extending themes you should become familiar with this section of the website as well as with the themeing guide.

Much Thanks.

Yes, I can see that as I look into all the corners searching for ways here-to-fore done through html pages.

I have now bookmarked the Glossary which I never did find. I thought everything I needed would be in the docs directory, but that is beyond me in those pdfs.

Thanks again.

You did not find the codeblock on hte user guide as functions are separately documentated on the functions documentation. That is linked from the sidebar on the user guide section. It is not possible to combine that into the user guide for technical reasons.

I will research further on your custom data and I don't understand your answer. I have put data into that box and nothing shows on the screen.

Yes, because virtually no theme features a call to it. You have to add it yourself where you want this to be displayed. Which applies for a lot of other functions, espeically from plugins, we can't add all always as we leave the freedom for people to decide where they want it. It is absolutly up to you what to use this for.

Surely, I do NOT know that meta data has virtually little use on search engines. Dreamweaver Creative Suite seems to indicate different, but I will look into what has more relevance these days.

The only meta tag that has really use regarding search engines is the description as that is display on the search results on Google for example. What matters most these days is the acutal content of the page/site and a proper HTML structure.