About the Picture Gallery

First of all, in case you have somehow reached this page without having seen something of the gallery first, it can be found here: http://indics.info/index.php/pictures. A convenient way to reach the gallery from any page of the site is to click the Picture of the Minute in the top left-hand corner - it will take you to the full version of the small image.

The listing page

At the top of the gallery list page, you'll see links to the three root categories of the picture gallery: Topic, Location and Gallery. These allow you to browse pictures in a systematic way, grouped into various topics such as Art, Religion, Nature, etc; by geographic location within India, and by gallery type such as portrait, landscape, abstract, etc. A number displayed next to the category name tells you how many photos you'll find in that category. Note that most of the categories have subcategories or children, and the number of photos in those are presently not included in this count - so it may well be worth clicking an apparently empty category to find its child categories brimming with nice pics.

To return to the gallery listing page, you'll also see a box titled Options. This lets you go to the Article Map, which at present is more like a dump than a map: it lists all articles on the site, grouped by article type and by category within each type. It's good for an overview of what you can find on the site, but not for much else - this may change in the future. Your second Option is to visit the Archive page, where you can look for articles - not only pictures - by publication date and by category.

Further down the page you'll find a self-explanatory pager, and options to sort pictures by publication date, alphabetically by title, number of times they have been viewed, and by rating.

This is followed by the actual picture list at last. You can click either the picture title, the thumbnail image or the View picture link to go to the page with the full-size image. Next to the thumbnail and below the title you'll see a number of maroon headwords in square brackets. These are links to categories, which let you browse other pictures in any of the categories to which this image is assigned. An easy way to find similar pictures. There's also a sand-coloured box on the right side, which contains keywords for the picture. Clicking one of these will take you to a list of all articles that share that keyword, giving you another way to look for related items.

The display page

The display page of a picture contains the same text as its listing; the only difference in content is the image itself, which can be viewed in large size. Feel free to download the image for personal use, but note that you cannot use it for any commercial purpose, and if you pass it on or publish it in any way, you must give credit to its source and pass it on with a CC BY-NC-SA licence (see Copyright Information for details).

The categories list on the list page is replaced by category crumbtrails at the top of the display page - click any of the category names to see more images in that niche. The keywords box is next to the image description, just as it had been on the list page. Below the image you'll see <prev and next> links to see more images without returning to the list page (previous and next in the order they were published on the site).

If you are a registered user and are logged in, you can rate each picture (once only), giving it 0 to 5 stars. Registered users can also add comments to each picture. It is recommended that you post generic queries in the Forum rather than in article comments, which should be reserved for discussion of the article at hand.

Submitting pictures to the site

At present users cannot post their own pictures on IndiCS.InfO. It is possible that in the future a separate section will be created for user albums. If you have pictures related to India that you would like to publish on this site (and don't mind giving up your copyright), you are welcome to contact us by email to admin at indics dot info.