1) Start inside picasa that is the software that you can see all your pictures you want. You choose the pictures you want to upload to the site inside picasa.

2) Click the export button.Here it is important to note!

- keep the export location in mind, you are going to need this when you upload the smaller images to your site.
- Image Size: Resize the images to 800px
- You can add a watermark if you want
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3) Click Export and let it do its magic.
4) Click the firefox icon (make sure it is firefox, that way you can do bulk uploads) and surf over to your website administration http://www.sheermagic.co.za/newsite/administrator/index.php
5) Add your username and password and login (this was sent to you by the system) and login

6) When you are logged in click the “add a new article” button

7) Add your Title “African Deco” for example
8) Pick a Category “Showcase” for now

9) ignore the rest and scroll down until you see the “Article Text” window.
10) There is a lot of little icons, on the 4th row down and 14th across you will see and icon that looks like a little picture

11) Hover over it and it will say “Insert/Edit image” Click it.
12) It will open a pop up window, scroll down until you see file browser.

13) Just below the word “file browser” you will see “Root”. Note it is always important to start in root. Below that you will see a list of all your folders.
14) To the right of “Root” you will see 3 icons, if you over over them it will tell you what they do. 1st one “New Folder”, 2nd one “Upload” and 3rd on is “Help”
15) Click on “New Folder” type in the name of the folder you want. Note: No spaces between words and keep it all lower case.

16) Click Ok, you will be taken back to the list of your folders.
17) In the middle column click on the folder you just made. Now you will be in that folder and can upload your pictures.
18) Click on the “Upload” icon. A pop-up will open and it will say “Drop files here”.

19) This is where you need to remember where you exported your images to.
20) Open your finder window and find all the pictures you exported in the beginning. Select them all and drop them onto the “Drop files here” pop-up.
21) You will then see a list of all the files you are going to upload. Click “Upload”

22) Once the upload is complete the popup window will close and you will see all your images inside the middle column.
23) Scroll down and click cancel. This will close the image pop-up window.
24)In the “Article Text” box write the following {gallery}foldername{/gallery} replace the foldername with the name of the folder where you uploaded your images.

25) Scroll to the top and click “Save & Close”

26) Thats it, you are done!
Just a note, this process is just for all your showcase gallery pictures. There is another system for each stock item and I suppose another manual
Have a look at your handy work by going to your website http://www.sheermagic.co.za/newsite/ and clicking on “Showcase”
To add more pictures repeat the process.