Pictomos Instructions

Welcome to the Pictomos user's guide

1- How does Pictomos work?

Pictomos is made of two parts.
- The admin:
This is the place where you manage your image library and the website elements (the "Tomos" ). This part is password-protected.
- The website:
Visible to general public, this part is the website as seen by your visitors. The page layout is managed with the "Tomos", which can be moved in the page.

2 - What is a Tomos?

A Tomos is a "content unit", therefore an element of your website that interacts with other elements. All the availableTomos can be personalized in your admin, thanks to an easy-to-use toolbar.

7Tomos are currently available examples from the website demo.pictomos.com

	-> Logo Tomos True core of the wholeTomos, it remains visible and is your site sign. This is where you can put your logo. It also acts as a "home" button to come back to your site homepage.
	-> Showcase Tomos This Tomos appears in your homepage and randomly displays an image of your whole picture library.
	-> Menu Tomos Displays the main categories of your site (the main Menu).
	-> TextTomos A Tomos for text-only content.
	-> Submenu Tomos This Tomos displays a menu's submenus (if any).
	-> Thumbnails Tomos Preview the whole selected gallery, with thumbnails. Several pages of thumbs can be displayed.
	-> Player Tomos Displays in large format the selected image.

3 - First steps with Pictomos

When you enter your admin , you can see the Pictonews page (Pictonews tab).

- Click on:

4 other tabs are present on top of the screen:

- My Tomic Space : where the website layout and look can be edited and configured.

- Click on:

- Menu : to create / edit the main Menu or Tomos Menu.

- Click on:

- Submenus : to create / edit Submenus of a Menu, displayed in the Tomos Submenu.

- Click on:

- My images : to upload images to your website and edit your current images.

- Click on:

3a - create a picture gallery menu in the admin:

- To ease the process, we recommend that you first create a Menu before creating galleries.

a)Create a Menu:click the "Menu" tab

- Click on:

A form appears.

- pick a name (example: "Gallery1") and add a short description (optional).

- pick the type of Menu: slideshow >>

, then Submit.

b) Enter the "My Images" tab:

- Click on :

A form appears.

- Select your image(s) on your computer ("Select images" button in the short form)
- You can also add a title, year, description and keywords if you would like to.

NOTE: the "keywords" field's purpose is to improve your site ranking in search engines.

- On the bottom of the form, select / pick the DESTINATION (e.g. "Gallery1", previously created) then Submit.

c) Check in the "My Tomic Space " tab the gallery ("Gallery1") you created.

NOTE : At first your account has a defaul Menu "Menu1". This is an example and can be edited or deleted.

3b - create a Menu with several picture galleries:

a) Create a Menu: click the "Menu" tab

- Click on :

A form appears.

- pick a name (example: "Insects") and add a short description (optional).

- pick the type of Menu: sub-menu >>

, then Submit.

b) Enter the "Submenus" tab:

- Click on :

A form appears.

- on the left

pick in which Menu this Submenu will be.

- Pick a name for this Submenu (e.g."Bees") and add a short description (optional).

- pick the type of Menu: slideshow >>

, then Submit.

-You can do the same for all Submenus of "Insects". (e.g. "Ants", etc...)

c) Enter the "My Images" tab:

- Click on :

A form appears.

- Select your image(s) on your computer ("Select images" button in the short form)
- You can also add a title, year, description and keywords if you would like to.

NOTE: the "keywords" field's purpose is to improve your site ranking in search engines.

- On the bottom of the form, select/ pick the DESTINATION: the Submenu "Bees" (previously created) then Submit.

- You can do the same with all the images of this Submenu.

d) Check in the "My Tomic Space" tab the different Submenus created in the "Insects"Menu.

NOTE : when picking the "Submenu" of the image in the "My Images" tab, you can also pick a "Menu" on top of it, this image will then be part of those which are randomly displayed in the Submenus Tomos.

3c - create a Menu with text-only content:

a) Create a Menu: click the "Menu" tab

- Click on:

A form appears

- pick a name (example: "Speech") and in the text entry tool, write the content of the Tomos text.

- pick the type of Menu : text >>

, then Submit.

b) Check in the "My Tomic Space" tab the Menu created ("Speech").

3d - Manage the layout of your Pictomos website:

- Once the content of your Pictomos site is ready, you can start managing the site layout and edit the Tomos.
In the "My Tomic Space " tab, you can see on the left part of the screen a toolbar :

	Preview : hides your admin space to be able to preview your website before publishing it
	Browse : to browse your website and use its links
	Move : this tool enables you to move the different Tomos in your website
	Text editing : to edit the text settings (size and colour)
	Background editing : to edit the background colour of the website, and also the background colour of the Tomos

NOTE: to avoid any overlapping between Tomos, do not forget to display your whole site with the Browse tool before publishing it!