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-rw-r--r--language/en_UK/help/help_groups.html6
-rw-r--r--language/en_UK/help/help_misc.html4
-rw-r--r--language/en_UK/help/help_user_upload.html4
-rw-r--r--language/en_UK/help/help_virtual_links.html2
-rw-r--r--language/en_UK/help/photos_add_ftp.html32
6 files changed, 28 insertions, 32 deletions
diff --git a/language/en_UK/help/help_add_photos.html b/language/en_UK/help/help_add_photos.html
index aac235cd4..d36f63781 100644
--- a/language/en_UK/help/help_add_photos.html
+++ b/language/en_UK/help/help_add_photos.html
@@ -1,20 +1,16 @@
<p>Several ways to add your photos in your gallery:</p>
<ul>
- <li><strong>Direct upload</strong> inside your web browser. It is the
+ <li><strong>Direct upload</strong> inside your web browser is the
simplest and most immediate way. It depends on your browser capabilities
- and your web server. For a high quantity of photos or in case of problem,
- the other ways are just waiting for you!</li>
+ and your web server. For a huge quantity of photos or in case you encounter some problem,
+ the other methods are just waiting for you!</li>
</ul>
<p class="nextStepLink"><a href="admin.php?page=photos_add&section=direct">Go to Direct Upload </a></p>
<ul>
- <li><strong>pLoader</strong> is desktop application, to install on your
- computer. Drag &amp; drop photos into pLoader window, click on <em>"Upload
- to Piwigo"</em> and let pLoader do the job. You can find other desktop
- applications such as comme <strong>WinToPiwigo</strong> or the export
- plugin for <strong>Digikam</strong>.</li>
+ <li><strong>pLoader</strong> is a desktop application, to be installed on your computer. Drag &amp; drop photos into pLoader window, click on <em>"Upload to Piwigo"</em> and let pLoader do the job. You can find other desktop applications such as <strong>WinToPiwigo</strong> or the <strong>Digikam</strong> export plugin to Piwigo.</li>
</ul>
<p class="nextStepLink"><a href="admin.php?page=photos_add&section=ploader">Go to pLoader</a></p>
diff --git a/language/en_UK/help/help_groups.html b/language/en_UK/help/help_groups.html
index 22d995735..bbd698152 100644
--- a/language/en_UK/help/help_groups.html
+++ b/language/en_UK/help/help_groups.html
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
-<p>Groups is a convenient way to set permissions for a list of users.</p>
+<p>Groups are a convenient way to set permissions for a list of users.</p>
<p>Create groups in <span class="pwgScreen">Administration &raquo; Users
&raquo; Groups</span> and associate users to this group
in <span class="pwgScreen">Administration &raquo; Users &raquo;
Manage</span>.</p>
-<p>A user can belong to several groups. Authorization is stronger than
-forbiddance : if user "jack" belongs to groups "family" and "friends", and
+<p>A user can belong to several groups. Authorization takes precedence over
+interdiction : if user "jack" belongs to groups "family" and "friends", and
that only group "family" can see category "Christmas 2003" category then
"jack" will be able to see "Christmas 2003".</p>
diff --git a/language/en_UK/help/help_misc.html b/language/en_UK/help/help_misc.html
index 246beff10..3224b2a55 100644
--- a/language/en_UK/help/help_misc.html
+++ b/language/en_UK/help/help_misc.html
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
<p>As soon as you created your gallery, modify default display properties
in <span class="pwgScreen">Administration &raquo; Configuration &raquo;
-Default</span>. Every new registered user will use these default
-configuration settings.</p>
+Default</span>. Every new registered user will inherit these default
+configuration settings upon registration.</p>
<p>If you have any question, Piwigo community will welcome you
on <a href="http://piwigo.org/forum">its forum</a>.</p>
diff --git a/language/en_UK/help/help_user_upload.html b/language/en_UK/help/help_user_upload.html
index 5aea7af54..46c99a83e 100644
--- a/language/en_UK/help/help_user_upload.html
+++ b/language/en_UK/help/help_user_upload.html
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
<ol>
- <li>Authorize upload on any physical categories
+ <li>Authorize upload on any physical category
(<span class="pwgScreen">Administration &raquo; Categories &raquo; Manage
&raquo; edit</span> or <span class="pwgScreen">Administration &raquo;
Categories &raquo; Properties &raquo; Upload</span>). Virtual categories
@@ -15,4 +15,4 @@
<p>Photos uploaded by users are not directly visible on the website. An
administrator must validate uploaded photos
in <span class="pwgScreen">Administration &raquo; Photos &raquo;
-Waiting</span>.</p>
+Waiting</span> to accept or reject the proposed photos.</p>
diff --git a/language/en_UK/help/help_virtual_links.html b/language/en_UK/help/help_virtual_links.html
index ac5e4dce1..ecf6071ba 100644
--- a/language/en_UK/help/help_virtual_links.html
+++ b/language/en_UK/help/help_virtual_links.html
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<p>Photos are displayed in the category corresponding to the file
+<p>Photos are displayed in the category corresponding to their file
directory.</p>
<p>You can also display a picture in several categories, without duplicating
diff --git a/language/en_UK/help/photos_add_ftp.html b/language/en_UK/help/photos_add_ftp.html
index 5bb2c552c..a416c14c2 100644
--- a/language/en_UK/help/photos_add_ftp.html
+++ b/language/en_UK/help/photos_add_ftp.html
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
<ol>
<li>Create a directory on your computer.</li>
- <li>Copy some photos inside this directory, resize them for web display. <em>Warning</em>: the name of directories and files must contain only letters, figures, "-", "_" or ".". No blank space, no accentuated characters.</li>
+ <li>Copy some photos inside this directory, resize them for web display. <em>Warning</em>: the name of directories and files must contain only letters, figures, "-", "_" or ".". No blank space, nor accentuated characters.</li>
<li>With a FTP client, copy your directory in the "galleries" directory of your Piwigo installation.</li>
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
<li>Go to <span class="pwgScreen">Administration</span> and click on the big Synchronization button.</li>
</ol>
-Congratulations! You have successfuly created the first category of your photo gallery.
+Congratulations! You have successfully created the first category of your photo gallery.
</fieldset>
<fieldset>
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ Congratulations! You have successfuly created the first category of your photo g
<p>Category directories are in the Piwigo directory
"galleries". Here follows the directory tree of a very small gallery (but
- using many features) :</p>
+ using many features):</p>
<pre>
.
@@ -63,10 +63,10 @@ Congratulations! You have successfuly created the first category of your photo g
</li>
- <li>Each directory under "galleries" produces a category. There is no limit on deepness.</li>
+ <li>Except for those named "thumbnail", "pwg-high" or "pwg_representative" (see explanations below), each directory under "galleries" produces a category. There is no limit on deepness.</li>
<li>Basically, an element is represented by a file. A file can be a
- Piwigo element if its extenstion is among <code>file_ext</code>
+ Piwigo element if its extension is among <code>file_ext</code>
configuration parameter possibilities (see <span
class="filename">include/config_default.inc.php</span> file). A file can
be a picture if its extension is among <code>picture_ext</code>
@@ -78,15 +78,14 @@ Congratulations! You have successfuly created the first category of your photo g
<li>Picture elements can have a high quality file associated. As for
wedding.jpg in the example above. No prefix on the high quality picture.</li>
- <li>Non picture elements (video, sounds, file texts, what you want...) are
- by default represented by an icon corresponding to the filename
- extension. Optionaly, you can associate a thumbnail and a representative
+ <li>Non picture elements (video, sounds, file texts, whatever you want...) are represented by default by an icon corresponding to the filename
+ extension. Optionally, you can associate a thumbnail and a representative
file (see video.avi in the example above).</li>
- <li><em>Warning</em>: the name of directories and files must contain only letters, figures, "-", "_" or ".". No blank space, no accentuated characters.</li>
+ <li><em>Warning</em>: the name of directories and files must contain only letters, figures, "-", "_" or ".". No blank space, nor accentuated characters.</li>
<li>Once files, thumbnails and representatives are correctly placed in the
- directories, go to : <span class="pwgScreen">Administration &raquo; Categories &raquo;
+ directories, go to: <span class="pwgScreen">Administration &raquo; Categories &raquo;
Synchronize</span></li>
</ul>
@@ -98,15 +97,16 @@ Congratulations! You have successfuly created the first category of your photo g
<li>Each photo must have its thumbnail.</li>
- <li>Thumbnails are stored in the sub-directory "thumbnail" of the category
- directory. The thumbnail has the same filename as the corresponding photo, with <em>TN-</em> as prefix.</li>
+ <li>Thumbnails are stored in the "thumbnail" sub-directory of the category
+ directory. The thumbnail has the same filename as the corresponding photo, with configuration parameter <code>prefix_thumbnail</code> as prefix (see <span class="filename">include/config.inc.php</span>).</li>
- <li><em>Advise</em>: use an external module for thumbnails creation.</li>
+ <li>Thumbnails files have not necessary the same extension as the associated image (eg a ".jpg" image may have a ".GIF" extension).</li>
- <li>Even if it is not recommended (image quality, web server resource load), you can use <span
- class="pwgScreen">Administration &raquo; Pictures &raquo; Thumbnails</span> page to create thumbnails.</li>
+ <li>It is recommended to use an external module for thumbnails creation.</li>
- <li>Give write access on all category directories.</li>
+ <li>The usage of the thumbnails creation tool integrated in Piwigo is not advisable, because the resulting quality might be disappointing and this will lie heavily on the server ressources (and that could be a serious problem on a shared server).
+
+ <li>If you choose to use the webserver to generate thumbnails, you must allow write access on all category directories.</li>
</ul>
</fieldset>