5. Photo Album Guidelines: Create Your Photo Essay

Ok, now you’re ready to put your photo album together on TypePad. For general Photo Album directions, Typepad has a good help area. Log on to your account and click Help and then click “Your Photo Albums.” Unfortunately, there are a few things to be aware of.

1. When you Create your photo album, be sure that you title your photo album folder something on the order of civil_war. We will be doing another photo album, and you want to keep the images for each one separate.

2. When you select your Layout, use the third option; it is the only one that has an introduction option. For the interior pages, the choice is yours.
3. When you select your Content, be sure that the following are checked: under Photo Album Cover Page: Photo Album Description and Album Cover Image and under Your Photo Pages: Photo Album Title, Photo Title, Photo Caption, and Location. (We’ll use Location for our image credits.)
4. When you select Style, you can make your own choice. (Perhaps Midnight isn’t the best since you’ll be using a great deal of text, but it’s up to you.)
5. When you select Configure, give your album a title and write or copy/paste your introduction. To underline or bold in TypePad’s Photo Album, however, you may have to use a bit of HTML code. This is very straightforward and easy.

   To bold your thesis sentence:

   1. Write your thesis.
   2. Put the following tag at the beginning of your thesis: <strong>
   3. Put the following tag at the end of your thesis: </strong>
   4. The thesis should look like this: <strong>This is the thesis. </strong>

To underline your thesis sentence:

1. Write your thesis.
2. Put the following tag at the beginning of your thesis: <u>
3. Put the following tag at the end of your thesis: </u>
4. The thesis should look like this: <u>This is the thesis.</u>

There are still several more steps in configure that need attention.

1. Still in Configure, choose the image for your cover and make the album public. Under Thumbnail size, medium is probably the best choice, but you’re free to do otherwise. Be sure that you choose the following: Display Order: Title Ascending and Photo Size: Medium (500 px)
2. Still in Configure, be sure that the following are checked: Photo Title, Photo Caption, and Location. That’s it. You’re good to go.