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Media Manager
From Elxis Official Documentation
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Using the media manager
The media manager helps us upload and manage multimedia files such as our photos, images, flash, sound, and other files on the server of your site that you wish to make available to visitors.
Before we do this, it is recommended that you do your photo or image editing before uploading so that they are smaller in file size. One reason is for speed and another is your server space.
It is always a good idea to think about the layout that your pages will have before uploading photos or images.
Generally, photos are changed to some form of standardized sizes, such as (height x width in pixels) with a photo editing program such as Paint Shop Pro © or Adobe Photo Shop © or some other program.
After you have changed your image size, you can save them using an organized method,
for example:
flowers.jpg to flowers-2008-sm.jpg
This layout uses a name, the year, and sm for small.
ATTENTION: It is always recommended and preferable to use a latin based character set and the hyphen or underline for file names due to problems that can arise at the hosting servers and on different operating systems.
When saving images with your photo editor, one more reason to use SAVE AS with another file name is to keep the original image in case you make a mistake.
If your image editing program can save your image as a jpg that is preferable because it will help you reduce the file size and the picture quality, saving from 30 to 40% in disk space and gaining in display speed when the page is viewed by visitors.
The final images that you will upload to your server will be those that you changed, not the originals.
Just as the above mentions only images, we can also apply this similar to other multimedia files.
Supports the following media file formats: Images: gif, jpg, png, bmp, jpeg Video: mpg, avi, wmv, mov, flv, mpeg, asf, rm, nsv, xvid Audio: mp3, wav, mid, ram, wma, ogg, aac Other: doc, xls, csv, ppt, swf, pdf, txt, zip, tar, rar, gz, tgz
The media manager toolbar From left to right there are the following controls:
Home: Click to return to '/images' directory.
Up: Click to move on level up in directories hierarchy.
Copy: Select a file and click this icon to copy it. You will be prompted for the destination folder. You cannot copy directories.
Delete: Select a file or directory and click this icon to delete it. All files and folders inside a directory will also be deleted.
Rename: Select a file or directory and click this icon to rename it.
New Folder: Click this icon to create a new folder (directory).
Permissions: Select a file or a directory and use this combo box to select a new permissions value for it. Click the 'Change Permissions' icon next to it, to apply changes.
Icons/Thumbnails View: Toggle switch that changes the way files are displayed.
Extract Zip: Select a zip file and click this icon to extract its contents.
Relative Path: It has two uses. It is used to display the current path or it can be used to type a new relative path and by clicking the 'arrow' icon, move to it.
ADDITIONAL FEATURES
Right clicking the mouse over an image helps you to do the following:
RESIZING IMAGES ONLINE Right click an image file and select 'Resize'. A new window will open, from where you can select the new image dimensions. Click 'Go' to resize image.
WATERMARK AN IMAGE
Using this option the user can add a text typically used to indicate ownership of the image.
A tip: If you intend to use watermarks on many images, the images can be prepared externally using Google's Picasa © with the watermark and then uploaded.
OPEN
PREVIEW
RENAME
COPY to
DELETE
RESIZE Right click an image file and select 'Resize'. A new window will open, from where you can select the new image dimensions. Click 'Go' to resize image.
