Image sizes are as follows:
Header-Logo image size is 967px wide.
Maximum gallery image size is 950px wide.
All other images automatically resize to 185px wide.
Images can have any height.
Thumbnails are re-sized automatically to a height of 50px.


The only file types allowed are .jpg, .gif, .bmp, .png, .JPG, .GIF, .BMP, .PNG

When deleting and image from the server you must remove the image info from the gallery as well. This action will delete the file from the server only. Be sure that you have removed the gallery image info first. You will have a blank space in your gallery thumbs otherwise.

Avoid using spaces and other characters (&, ", >, <, *, [, {, ], }, #, ~, !, $, |, ^, or upper ASCII characters
in your image file names. -- Image file names will be modified to a server friendly format on upload. Dashes will replace spaces and the above described characters will be removed.

1. Go the 'Galleries' menu and select 'RemoveGallery Image.
2. In the remove image section select the image you wish to delete and click the delete button. This will remove the image from the gallery but not the server.

If you want to delete the image from your server, go to 'Manage (Upload/Delete) Images.' and select the image you want to delete from the dropdown form and click delete. (This will not delete the image space from your gallery so be sure to remove the image from the appropriate gallery as well).

1. Go to the 'Galleries' menu, select 'Add Gallery Image'.
2. Upload your image.
3. Name your image.
4. Fill in the information you wish to display.
5. Select which gallery you wish to display the image in.
6. Click the 'Add image to gallery' button.

1. Open templates/template.phpin your web editor (Dreamweaver etc), or notepad.
2. Save template.php As (the file name of your choice ie: 'mypage.php'. Your file name must contain the .php extension).
3. Upload into the top level(same level as the index.php file") of the folder you have installed easyArtShow.
4. Enter this name into the 'Page Link' input box Be sure to use the.php extension on in your page file name..
4. Add the 'Page heading name' as it will appear in the web page.
5. Add the 'Page menu name' as it will appear in the navigation bars.
6. Click the 'Check this box to activate page for display' checkbox.
7. Click the "Add Page Info" button.
8. All done! Relod the page to see your new menu item in the top and bottom navigation bars.

A. You can approve the galleries for display and change the page/menu names under the 'Pages' menu.
B. If you want to edit the gallery images, select 'Update Gallery Image' from the "Galleries" menu.

Make sure that the imgs folder's permissions are set to 777.

1. Go to your hosting control panel file manager
2. Select the imgs folder.
3. Change (chmod) the permissions for the imgs folder to 777.

A. Using your FTP Client navigate to /install and delete the directory named "install" and all of it's contents.

B. Using your hosting company's file manger, delete the directory named "install" and all of it's contents.

To change username, password, database name or hostname.

1. Open include/conn.php.
2. Change database information.
3. Upload changed file

The page add and update forms are HTML friendly so you are able to add HTML tags to your content.

1. To change your website theme to one of the included theme packages, under the 'Site' menu locate "Update Site Info"
2. Use the theme selector to choose your theme.

Advanced Users:
1. To change the style sheet that controls the color of your site find the css/as-theme-custom.css and apply changes to the color information contained in that one page.
2. Select 'Custom' in the theme dropdown menu contained in the Update Site Info page.

Proceed with caution in making changes to other dimensionally related selectors as the site has been set up to work in ie6, ie7,ie8 , FF2, FF3, Opera and Safari browsers, as well as Mac, Windows and Linux operating systems.

To install
1. Upload EasyArtShow files to your host server and domain name. (You can use the file manager provided in the control panel of your hosting company).
2. Navigate your browser to www.yourdomain.com/install/index.php
3. Create a MYSQL database on your host server. (This is done in the control panel of your hosting company under database management).
4. Enter the database name, username, password and database url into the form provided by easyArtShow.
(This information is provided to you by the host on successful creation of your database).
(The easyArtShow installation process will create the necessary tables and information needed).
6. Click continue.
5. Enter your website information into the form provided by easyArtShow.
6. Click the submit button.
7. Add your logo using the form provided by easyArtShow.
8. Remove the install folder from the server and you are done.