Hello, I just got into umbraco and I'm wondering where I upload images into the server in order to recall them later in css. So far I have images inside of the media section, but every image I put up there has a different numbered url. Such as /media/388/dotted_line.jpg and /media/393/star.gif
Is the media section where I'm suppose to upload images? Is there a reason why the numbers keep changing?
oooh, that is a great idea... some sort of file-based access to the /data directory perhaps as a tree or a new section in the lower left navigation area
I normally use the media section only for images that must be managed by my customer. The numnered folder is because it correspondents with the id of the media item.
For images that I'm using in my template or stylesheet I create a seperate folder and store the images in there and reference the images from there. I manage the images in that folder using a FTP program to upload it.
The solution I came up with was to add a simple style element within my header that referenced the proper image using an umbraco field. I did it in this manner so that the editors would have easy control over changing the header image if they wanted to. Now I just need to integrate some sort of image size validation.
For "some sort of image size validation"... I can recommend ImageGen, which will resize the original image (and rotate, crop, watermark, etc. etc. etc.) to your design's requirements. http://our.umbraco.org/projects/imagegen
You can simply add an image from your page via the RichText editor, where you can also see the path for it. If you click the HTML icon in the toolbar list inside Umbraco you can also change the inline css if you want.
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Hello, I just got into umbraco and I'm wondering where I upload images into the server in order to recall them later in css.
So far I have images inside of the media section, but every image I put up there has a different numbered url.
Such as /media/388/dotted_line.jpg and /media/393/star.gif
Is the media section where I'm suppose to upload images? Is there a reason why the numbers keep changing?
Thanks for the help,
Chris
You can create a folder in root directory (e.g. 'images') and upload images to use in css etc
Bringing up a good point. It would be great to be able to manage such items from within umbraco.
oooh, that is a great idea... some sort of file-based access to the /data directory perhaps as a tree or a new section in the lower left navigation area
Hi Chris,
I normally use the media section only for images that must be managed by my customer. The numnered folder is because it correspondents with the id of the media item.
For images that I'm using in my template or stylesheet I create a seperate folder and store the images in there and reference the images from there. I manage the images in that folder using a FTP program to upload it.
Cheers,
Richard
@bob,
I agree, a simple file manager would be a great addition.
The solution I came up with was to add a simple style element within my header that referenced the proper image using an umbraco field. I did it in this manner so that the editors would have easy control over changing the header image if they wanted to. Now I just need to integrate some sort of image size validation.
For "some sort of image size validation"... I can recommend ImageGen, which will resize the original image (and rotate, crop, watermark, etc. etc. etc.) to your design's requirements. http://our.umbraco.org/projects/imagegen
cheers,
doug.
You can simply add an image from your page via the RichText editor, where you can also see the path for it. If you click the HTML icon in the toolbar list inside Umbraco you can also change the inline css if you want.
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