The image administration

Images are an important design tool for your website. Unlike many web building kits, page4 has an image manager that you can access directly in the main menu under "Images". All images that are uploaded from your computer to your website are stored in page4's image manager. There are a few things you should keep in mind.

 

 

The dialog looks a little different than our new dialogs, because we have not yet completely changed this area. The dialog is always as large as possible and adapts to the browser similar to the page management.

 

On the left side you will find the main folder of the image administration and below it the possibility to create your own folders. With this you are able to sort your pictures. The advantage of this is that you can find the right images much faster. This folder structure is also displayed in the image selection dialog and you can limit the selection of images using this structure.

 

All the images you uploaded will be uploaded to the main folder first. If you have created your own folders, you can move images into these folders. It is best to sort all uploaded images into folders so you can access them much easier.

 

On the left side there is a green plus sign. This is used to add folders. Click on the plus sign. A dialog opens where you can enter a name. As soon as you end the dialog with ok, the new folder is displayed in a list.

 

Each list entry has 3 icons and the name of the folder followed by a ().
With the first icon in front you can touch the list entry and move it, if there is more than one folder. Moving is done with the mouse. Just touch it, keep the mouse pressed and move it. If you have at least two folders, you can make a folder a subfolder by moving it to the right while holding down the mouse button. This way you can bring order into your image collection similar to a navigation.

 

You can change the name of the folder at any time with the stylus.

 

With the recycle bin you delete a folder. However, only empty folders can be deleted. If you click on a recycle bin of a folder that contains images, a warning message appears. A second way to delete an empty folder is to grab the entry and move it to the large recycle bin below by holding down the mouse button..

 

To load images into a folder, they must be available in the large clipboard on the right. Grab the image with the mouse and drag it to the desired folder with the mouse button pressed and release the image. It will be removed from the clipboard and moved to the folder. Behind the folder name there is a bracket as said before. This shows the number of images in the folder. If you want to move more than one image at a time, just click with the mouse on the corresponding images. Each activated image will be marked. Clicking again will remove the mark. All marked images can be touched and moved with the mouse. When you do this, the names of all the images you just touched together will be displayed in an area that is visible when you move them. As soon as you are over the folder (this is indicated by the folder being highlighted in blue) you let go of the images.
Tip: If you want to move more images from the clipboard to a folder than you want to leave in the clipboard, you can also just select the images you don't want to move. Then click on the "Invert" link at the bottom of the dialog. This will invert the selection and you can then move the now correctly selected images. If you want to move all images, you can click on "All" to select all images and then move them.

If you want to move images from one own folder to another own folder, then you click with the mouse on the folder from which you want to move images. Only the images from the active folder will be displayed in the clipboard and you can select and move the desired images.

 

page4 recognizes which images of yours are used on each page. In the image administration there is a link "Unused" and a link "Used" at the bottom. If you click on the "Unused" link, all unused images will be marked in the clipboard. Since the clipboard only shows the images from one folder, you have to click on the respective folders and then on "Unused" to check which images in the individual folders are unused. The link "Used" does the exact opposite and has the same effect as if you would invert the marking of all unused images.

Important: If you embed images with the icon provided by Text Editor, page4 may not recognize that this image is used, since we have to use a different technique here. Likewise, images that you use in the blog may not be recognized as used, because the same issue exists here.

Important: If you delete an image from the administration that is used on one of your pages, then the image can no longer be displayed. The content elements only link to the image administration and depend on the fact that all used images are available there. The cache image of an image that has been deleted will also be removed by page4, so your visitors will not be able to see a deleted image.

 

With the reset link you deactivate all markers in the image administration.

 

You can upload images from your computer directly from the administration. Just click on the link "Upload new image" and the familiar dialog for uploading images will open. All newly uploaded images are automatically loaded into the main folder. It is currently not possible to upload images directly to your own folders.

 

Since we have customers who use far more than 10,000 images on their website, it is of course important that all of page4's functions work at sufficient speed even when particularly high performance is required. In order for our image administration to be able to handle such large amounts of data, we have limited the simultaneous display of images in the clipboard to 250 and created the possibility to create as many folders as desired. At the bottom of the dialog, above the links, there is a selection box. There you can see which and how many images are currently in the clipboard. For example, if you have 135 images in total and all of them are in the clipboard, it will say 1-135. If you have 1,000 images and all of them are in the clipboard, it will say 1-250 and if you click on the selection box, there are more entries labeled 251-500, 501-750 and 751 to 1,000. If you select the 501-750 entry, the corresponding images are displayed in the clipboard. This concept has the advantage that the image administration is very fast, no matter how many images you have in total, and that you can still browse all images very quickly. The disadvantage is, the links to select images ("All, Invert, Used, Unused" can only be applied to the current clipboard. For example, if you have loaded the images 251-500 with the selection box and now search which images are unused and 35 images are marked, then these are 35 images of the 250 that are displayed. If you now select the images 501-750, the selection is cancelled, because there are now new images in the clipboard. So you have to complete all actions before you add new images to the clipboard, otherwise you will lose all selections.

 

All actions you take in the image administration are executed and saved immediately. Images you delete are deleted immediately. Images you move are moved immediately. Therefore the dialog has no save button but only a close button. You should be especially careful when deleting images. Once deleted, images cannot be recovered. This is another reason why it is important to always keep all images on your local computer.

Tip: If you have deleted an image by mistake, this is no problem if you still have the image on your computer and the name of the image is identical to the deleted image. So if page4 did not change the image name because it was too long or contained special characters. Just re-upload the image and if the image name is identical, the individual content elements can link back to the image and display it again.