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Photo World Theme

 

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Photo World Theme

Using your own background image

Photo World theme will pull through the image you have set as your DB Primary background on your learning platform login page.

If you have yet to do this, and wish to change from the default image, please use the following steps:

1. Login to DB Primary

2. Click on Administration on your homepage. You can use the toolbox icon or access administration from the homepage dropdown:

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3. Select the school tab:


4. Click on Upload to look for your background image:

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Inserting a slideshow

The slideshow box will appear by default once you choose the Photo World theme:


To insert your own pictures in the slideshow you will need to link the slideshow to a group of tagged pictures in one of your DB Primary communities.


Note: Make sure that the access setting of this community is set to public, otherwise the photos will not be visible without a login to DB Primary. For more information on changing your community access settings click here.

See below for more information on how to tag your files.

To insert a slideshow use the following steps:


1. Click on Design Page at the top right of the screen.

2. Right click the photo gallery and select Gallery Properties from the dropdown:



3. From the following dialogue, click on the community where your pictures are located then select the appropriate tag from the dropdown list:

4. Click on OK to confirm, close down the dialogue window and click on save in the design page view. The pictures will now pull through to the website slideshow:

Tagging your files

In the gallery of the appropriate DB Primary community click on and open up any of the files you wish to tag.

In the dialogue window that appears, type in your tag and click on the blue cross to confirm:


Once you close the dialogue window, the tag will now appear in the gallery:


Menu Items

In the Photo World theme, only the first five menu items appear on the homepage:

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If you have more menu items they will be hidden, but will appear on any page other than the homepage:


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