# Step 2: Your photos

Do all your uploading now, in one sitting. Every step after this one asks you to
pick a photo, and picking is quick when the photo is already there.

Go to **Content**, then **Media**. [Media](/content/media/) has the full steps.

## The checklist

### 1. Upload the lot

Put every photo you might use on the site into the library at once. You can pick
many files in one go.

Photos straight off a phone are fine. A big photo takes longer to upload, and
that is all. A small one cannot be fixed later, so send the big one.

[Media](/content/media/) walks through **Upload to Library**.

### 2. Describe each one

Alt text is a short line saying what is in the picture. It is read out to people
who cannot see it, and search engines read it too.

Click a file in the library, type the words in **Alt Text**, and click **Save**.
A few plain words are plenty: "A new white kitchen with a wooden worktop".

:::note[Important]
Write the alt text now, before the photo goes on a page.

The words are copied onto the page when you pick the photo. Change them later
and the pages that already use it keep the old wording. [Media](/content/media/)
explains how to fix that.
:::

### 3. Group them into albums

An album is a set of photos shown together: one job, one year, one kind of work.

Open [Gallery](/content/gallery/) and you will find one album named
**EXAMPLE**. It holds no photos, but its name is on your **Gallery** page for
anyone to read.

- Open that album, rename it for a customer, and put your photos in it.
- Or move it to the **Trash** and start your own with **Add New**.
- Write a caption on each photo.
- Click **Publish**.

Name an album the way a customer would say it. "Kitchen fitted in Fairhaven"
beats "batch 3".

### 4. Folders, if you have them

Some sites have a **Media Folders** screen under **Plugins**. It keeps one job
or one year together. If it is not in your menu, skip this and nothing is
missing. See [Media Folders](/plugins/media-folders/).

:::caution[Warning]
Do not delete a file from the library to tidy up.

Nothing checks where a file is used first. If a page is showing it, that page is
left with a broken picture, and the Trash cannot bring the file back.

An unused file costs you nothing. Leave it.
:::

## What done looks like

Click **View Site**, then open your **Gallery** page.

- Your work is on it, in albums with names a customer understands.
- Every photo you plan to use is in the library.
- Every one of them has alt text.

Next: [Step 3: Choose your colors](/setup/choose-your-colors/).