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Procedures for the Jamaica Hotel History Website
Contents: Open Wiss-Websites-Processing.xls.
Rebuild Sitemap after any changes.

— Adding Hotel —

Find where it fits into the location order.
Add to: HotelData.txt and NameList.txt in same location. An edit will stop you if they aren't.

— Updating Google Map —

Click link on home page
Click EDIT
Click Add layer
Click Import under the new untitled layer.
Drag the csv file from the site-building folder to the web page.
Click continue. Select Title. Click continue again.
You now need to delete the old layer, which is above the new layer. Click the three dots.

— Adding Brochure —

Note that for brochures only there is a naming convention that must be followed:
A name cannot be a subset of another name. There is an edit.

— Special Features for Postcards/Photos/Clippings —

Subtitles

In these three sections a + symbol in Column (B) in the editing worksheet turns that row into a subtitle. And the contents of Column (D) become the subtitle.

Combining images

— Adding Postcards —

— Adding Clippings —

Clipping from NewspaperArchive.com

  1. Entire Page - is too small to be useable:
  2. Part of Page (which gets a more useful image, even for entire pages):

Clipping from Newspapers.com

Cleaning up Clippings and Processing

It is hard to get a clean clip (at least with NewspaperArchive).
Use IrfanView to crop a little cleaner. And remove the edges of adjacent articles with Erase.
Often for newspaper clippings I make 400 px per column.
Then save with "Try to save with original JPG quality (estimation)."
Put all cleaned clippings in the temp folder under the scans folder.
Open an image and press T for Thumbnails in IrfanView. Review them.
On ImageUtilities tab make thumbnails. Quality e; Max Width/Height 200. Check Give -tn suffix. If newspapers, then Sharpen.
Sort by date. Move thumbnails to: JamaicaHotelHistory.com\clippings\images
Also move any images without -f suffix.
Go through each one with IrfanView and reduce, usually with Sharpening, but test each.
If from Gleaner, Run utility on Create Gleaner Clippings Workbook button
Copy hotel names down columns.

— Adding Tourism —

These pages are hand coded. Clone similar htm file. 
scan cover first, before pulling book apart.
scan all, processing each page after its scan.
for pages with multiple images, name the entire scan with the name and the letter a after the page number.
Using jpegcrop, starting with the last ad, save them with changing the a to the appropriate letter
When finished, move to the temp folder under the scan folder.
On the ImageUtilities tab:
- press to clean. a must if jpegcrop was used
- list file sizes. adjust crop to even out sizes. clean again, if jpegcrop was used
- list files, using button copy filenames to Notepad
- using Replace, remove the -f.jpg
-     add tourism\ in front of the names
- Create Link Text. Path prefix is images/ and Entry Type is 1
- Resize: First Process button is 80% and 0.375 Proportion
- Resize: Second Process button is Quality e, and Max Width and Height is 200. give -tn suffix
- the first thumbnail needs to be renamed without the page number
- move all to the images folder
- on Dashboard tab open Edit ClippingsList.txt
- add many rows in the appropriate place. empty rows will be deleted when saving
- copy in the list you have in Notebook
- fill in the other columns

Tourism with page heading to be repeated. [Need example]

Tourism with entry straddling pages

— Adding Map —

All files under the main index are create by a macro. Underlying data can be found by clicking Edit: Maps Data.
Resizing is generally 0.375, but some done at 0.3125.
Depending on image size, quality can be 85% down to 70%.
At 70% some of the street names on the large maps are hard to read. So no lower.
Last batch was 80% and two at 70%.

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