There are a couple of quick and easy ways to customize your WHIIST photo album that I haven’t seen posted. The page default settings are located in default.aspx. To edit that file:
- Using Windows Explorer open the directory where the photos are placed for the album.
- Using Wordpad (or your favorite text editor) open default.aspx.
- To change the title displayed in the web browser’s title bar:
- In between the
<title>HTML tags, replace the “Windows Home Server Gallery” with what you would like displayed at the top of the viewer’s web browser. - Save and close the default.aspx file.
- In between the
- To change the heading displayed at the top of the web page.
- In between the
<span class="LandingHeaderStyle"></span>HTML tags, replace the “WHIIST Photo Gallery” with what you would like displayed at the top of the photo gallery web page.
- Save and close the default.aspx file.
- In between the
Thanks for the tip(s) here. Since you’ve obviously dug into the way Whiist does photo albums, maybe you have a solution for this one? When I updates photos (edited or rotated or whatever), they thumbnail doesn’t change – it stays the same as when the pic was first added to the folder. Do you know where this info is stored and/or know of a good way to force it to regenerate the thumbnails? I was hoping that deleting one of the aspx files in the storage folder would cause it to regenerate & recreate the file, but no luck.
Thanks!
Hey, no problem. I believe the thumbnails are generated at least every time the folder contents change. Have you tried removing the picture showing up in the thumbnail? Also, it does look like it uses a fixed aspect ratio for the thumbnail images. There’s a chance that the thumbnail generation puts the pics in this format automatically. Sorry if that doesn’t help.
What do I need to do to have Whiist display my photos in the right orientation? All of the photos in my albums display in landscape but some of them should be in portrait.