Creating a SimpleViewer Gallery with Picasa

Follow these steps to automatically build SimpleViewer galleries using Picasa (Windows or Mac).

1. Install SimpleViewer Picasa Template

  1. Download the SimpleViewer Picasa Template. (NOTE: this is a different file than the regular SimpleViewer download). Unzip and copy the folder to your Picasa web templates folder:
    • Windows: \Program Files\Google\Picasa3\web\templates
    • Macintosh: Applications:Picasa.app:Contents:Resources:web:templates
      (To browse inside a package, use ctrl-click and select "Show Package Contents")
  2. Restart Picasa.

2. Create SimpleViewer Gallery

  1. In Picasa, select the images you want in your gallery, then click Folder -> Export as HTML Page...
  2. Select your image size and gallery title.
  3. In the Select a Web Page Template page, select SimpleViewer.
  4. Click Finish.
  5. The gallery will be generated and displayed in a new browser window. Image captions in Picasa will show as captions in SimpleViewer.

3. Edit gallery options (Optional)

Once you have created your SimpleViewer gallery, you can tweak some of the gallery options by editing the generated gallery.xml file in any text editor (e.g. NotePad, TextEdit ). Here is a list of the XML gallery options with their descriptions. SimpleViewer-Pro users can use svBuilder to open and customize the generated gallery folder.

Note to give the best layout for your gallery, you should set the 'maxImageWidth' and 'maxImageHeight' to match the dimensions of your largest image.

4. Set your gallery background color (Optional)

To set the background color, edit index.html. Enter the hex color value like this:

params.bgcolor = "222222";

5. Upload gallery to your web-server

Use the FTP program of your choice to upload the generated folder to your web-server.

Modifying the default options created by the Picasa Template.

You can modify the default XML options generated by the picasa template by editing the header.xml file in the picasa template folder.