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StuckInTheSixties:

If you have read this comment before as you’ve begun other Albums of mine, and you’re familiar with it, feel free to simply skip this and get on with the process of looking at the pictures. But if you’re new to my Pictures page, please read this, because it’s important.

When I create Albums, I do so with the purpose of having my pictures viewed in a particular order. In order to insure that viewers will follow this order, I’ve established the procedure of always beginning an Album with the same two pictures, composed of text in bold red and black text. The first picture presents this message which you are now reading. The second picture includes a comment like this one which gives the full title of the album, when it was originally posted as blog, and other information. It functions as a sort of introduction to the Album, and provides a general explanation of what the Album is about. Most of these Albums will replicate what once were blogs created to display the pictures, and which contained text to accompany those pictures. The comment for the second picture will always feature that text under the heading “Original Blog Text.” (In some cases it was necessary, for various reasons, to modify that text for the Album.)



HOW TO VIEW MY PICTURES

First of all, you’ll notice that the Wireclub Pictures page shows several representations of the pictures. Some of these should simply be ignored.

First, on the main Pictures page, the Albums are listed, with the title over to the left, and six little thumbnails in a row to the right of that. Clicking the first little thumbnail will ALWAYS open the picture you see above this comment. If you become familiar with my Albums, and how I set them up, you’ll learn NOT to click that first picture. Even though it says, in big red letters “BEGIN HERE,” that is only for the benefit of those who are new to my Albums. After a time or two, you won’t need to read this tedious message any longer.

Instead, the quickest way to begin one of my Albums is to click the SECOND picture in that row, and skip this message you’re reading now. After a time or two of looking at my Albums, you’ll hopefully know to go directly to the SECOND picture, which says: “THE COMMENT BELOW TELLS YOU ABOUT THE PICTURES IN THIS ALBUM.” That’s important. It tells you what this album is about. The comment below that picture will have a copy of the text that went with the pictures when they were originally placed in a blog. It’s usually significant information that was put there for a reason.

Additionally, each individual picture will have a comment below that will function as the caption for the picture. Each picture is numbered, and captioned in those comments. (If Wireclub ever get’s its shit together, and includes the capability to make actual captions, I may change this setup and use that instead.)

Of course, if you’re familiar with the Wireclub Pictures page, you also know there is a “Gallery,” which shows you all of the pictures, in the form of larger “thumbnails.” You can use this to access any picture in the Album without going through the entire collection.

But I recommend that when you first view an album, you actually proceed consecutively through the order, even if you don’t care to read the captions/comments and just want flip through them quickly. However, the Gallery has its own utility, too. Use it as you see fit.

Here’s a little bit of additional information you probably already know:

When any picture is enlarged to full size it is accompanied by two arrows, pointing left and right, used to proceed from picture to picture. As you probably know, the arrow pointing to the right takes you from the beginning to the end. And as you probably know, with smaller pictures, the arrows will be immediately visible on each side of the picture. If the arrows are not visible, place your cursor on the picture, and they will pop into view.

Also, when a picture is enlarged to full size, you’ll notice a small row of tiny thumbnails located above it. While you can use it to switch pictures, that feature is of very limited use. I recommend you simply ignore it altogether. Every other means of navigating between pictures works much better.

One last thing:

The last picture of each album is another one of these red and black “slides.” It has several functions. It designates that the viewer has looked at the entire album, and it allows me to thank viewers for actually looking at my pictures.

But the main point of it is to try, as much as I can try, to overcome possible confusion that might result from the way that the “Wall” on our home pages displays the notification for Albums. That notification always shows the LAST four pictures of an album. I don’t want people to click on one of those pictures, and wind up going the wrong way through the order, so I placed that “slide” there in an attempt to guide people to go directly to the beginning of the album, and view it in the order that it was intended.

That’s it! I think that’s everything you need to know about how to view my Albums. Thanks for reading this, and thanks for looking at my pictures!
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