Portfolio User Guide
When you first sign up for an Indexhibit Portfolio, it will take us up to 2 business days (usually less) to create your new website, and send you the login details.
When you receive the login details, go to your new website, then click on the ‘Admin’ link in the left hand side. You can then enter your username and password.
Admin Header
When you first log in you will see your website administration panel. Take the time to click on some of the headings to find your way around the website.
The page you are looking at lists your ‘Exhibits’. Each Exhibit is one page of your website.
You can click on the ‘Statistics’ link at the top and see information about how many people have looked at your website, and which websites or ‘referrers’ are referring people to your website.
Over to the right hand side of the header, you’ll see a link called ‘View Your Site’. This is the easiest way to get back to your website’s front page.
Click on ‘Admin’ on your front page again to get back to the admin area.
The ‘Preferences’ link, also in the right hand side of the admin header, is where you can change your password.
The help link will take you away from your website and over to the Indexhibit forum where you can learn more about how to use your website. If you have any questions, searching the Indexhibit forum will usually find you an answer. You’re also welcome to post questions in our forum.
Next to the help link is the logout link. It’s a good idea to always log out from your website if you are using a computer which is not password protected, or not your computer.
Exhibits = Pages
Click on ‘Exhibits’ in the header to get back to your list of pages.
Start by editing your ‘Main’ page. You can do this by clicking on the ‘Edit’ link to the right.
Delete the text which says ‘Edit this page’, and replace it with a description about yourself. When you’re done, don’t forget to click the little ’save’ icon at the top of the text window.
You can change the title from ‘Main’ to something else by clicking the title.
You can upload an image by clicking on the ‘Browse’ button and finding the image file on your computer. When you have found the right file, press the ‘Upload’ button. Don’t forget to hit the little save icon after wards.
Click on ‘Exhibits’ in the header to get back to your list of pages. You can create a new page by clicking the ‘New’ link to the right, above the list of exhibits.
Sections
Indexhibit is broken up into three sections ‘Info’, ‘On-Going’ and ‘Projects’. This is so that you can categorize your website information into meaningful areas.
To change, delete or add sections, click the ‘Settings’ link.
Background Colour
When you are editing your exhibit, you’ll see an option for editing the background colour in the right hand side. Click on this and choose your preferred background colour from the palette. Don’t forget to hit the save icon.
Background Image
How the background image displays is determined by which Exhibition Format you are using. Upload the background image using the form field in the right hand side. When you’ve selected the background image from your computer, just wait for the page to finish reloading. It will show you a thumbnail and have the delete button when the file has finished uploading. You’ll still need to save the page, so don’t forget to hit the save icon. Check your page to see whether it is displaying the way you want or not. Most background images will tile (which means they will repeat over and over to fill up the whole background). You can stop the background image from tiling by clicking on ‘Advanced Settings’ and turning off tiling. Don’t forget to hit the save icon.
Image Sizes
Most computers have a screen size of 1024 pixels wide by 768 pixels high. You don’t want to make your images that big, because there are headers, footers and sidebars on the screen which take up some of the screen space. I personally have an internet viewport of about 1200 x 680 pixels. Computer screens display images at 72 pixels per inch, or dpi. So, when you output your photos from GIMP or Photoshop, you want to export them at 72dpi, with the maximum height 680 pixels and the maxiumum width 1200 pixels. You’re free to make either dimension smaller than this. We totally recommend the free software GIMP for editing your image files. http://www.gimp.org/
Exhibit Format
You can lay each page out in a different way. When you are editing your exhibit, you’ll see a drop-down box on the right which has a list of ‘Exhibit Formats’ you can choose from. Each format will display the content of that page in a different way.
Here’s some examples:
Slideshow
Crabs (on the beach)
Attaching Files (Advanced)
You can attach a file like a .pdf by selecting the folder icon on top of the text edit box. When the popup box appears, click on the ‘Upload Files’ link in the top right hand corner. When you’ve uploaded all your files, click on the ‘Files Manager’ link to see all your files. Click the arrow to insert the file link into your text box. The file link is an html link in the format of <a somefile></a> however you need to insert some text between the two tags like this <a somefile>click here</a> for the link to show up on your page. Don’t forget to save!
