Customize your homepagePosted Sep 2, 2009 by Björn Fant in JAlbum news
In the new website layout we have merged your community profile and album hosting pages into a single customizable album home page. One page to rule them all. The new customizable homepage is the crown jewel in our new site release. You are now able to display more information about yourself and your photography: - Change the main message welcoming your visitors. The default is "Yourname's albums". Change it to something more fun. We hope this will provide a flexible way for you to display your photography in a personal way and to present you as a photographer in more detail. Now the exciting part. We have released a series of templates for you to use to style your new homepage! You can easily switch themes from your Settings page, they will instantly change the look and feel of your page. Some themes are free, premium or power users have lots of themes to choose from and ...drum roll... you can make your own theme! For now you can control colors of different parts of your page, but we're soon adding the ability to upload your own backgrounds. Now go check out your new customizable homepage! |
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carl says:
We added that option a couple of weeks after the initial release of the new site. That's probably why you didn't see it in the first place. Stay tuned!
1 month ago
Mike de Lange says:
I can't believe how blind I've been, but regardless, I'll wait for the enhanced options.
Thanks Carl
1 month ago
carl says:
Hi Mike, yes you can find a "Sort albums" button below your album thumbs. So far you can only order them by latest updated, created and alphabetically. We are working on adding manual drag and drop ordering.
1 month ago
Mike de Lange says:
Is there any way to change the order of appearance of separate albums on my homepage?
Best regards
1 month ago
141R45 says:
Yes, connection broke when I downloaded. it is still broken
2 months ago
carl says:
Could yo uplease try to remove those albuma and Publish again? Maybe the connection broke when you uploaded.
2 months ago
141R45 says:
To Carl :
Of course, the album and correct on my computer at the time of the previsualisation for the two albums.
2 months ago
devid says:
Carl, another question: if i go to "Add external ablum" and add one. I only get a small thumbnail in te questbook and not a bigger picture next to my jablum.
can the external links not be places aside the jalbums instead of the questbook which loses it's function as a questbook
2 months ago
carl says:
@141R45: it looks like the album wasn't built properly. Does it look ok on your computer before publishing?
2 months ago
141R45 says:
I have just published “Giannis D”. No photograph is present on line…
2 months ago
141R45 says:
Hello,
Why there are only 4 photographs which appear in the album “Le Krisoulaka” ?
Thank's
2 months ago
carl says:
Hi devid, you can enter the address (url) to the image. I have done that for you now. I'll DM you regarding the other question, since I'm not sure what you mean.
2 months ago
devid says:
and the new pictures you show are not resized .....
2 months ago
devid says:
If a do an new upload i can't edit the text. I can write a new one but always the old text appears. frustating ...................
2 months ago
luvs2dabble says:
Wonderful news!! Looks great..
2 months ago
141R45 says:
For Mike de Lange : l like much search in your photographs RUSTIC, cheer !
2 months ago
141R45 says:
Bien sur que ce serait génial en français... Et alors, réviser son anglais, c'est pas mal non plus...
Of course that it would be brilliant in French… And then, to revise its English, it is not badly either…
Natürlich, dass es auf französisch genial wäre… Und dann sein Englisch, ist es zu überprüfen schlecht auch nicht…
2 months ago
141R45 says:
Bien sur que ce serait génial... Et alors, réviser son anglais, c'est pas mal non plus...
2 months ago
mecasport says:
je suis d'accord avecs tephanebetion;homepage en francais sera geniale.):
2 months ago
mecasport says:
your pictures is your presentation
2 months ago
Dor says:
@Mike de Lange: Thanks for the feedback, we appreciate it. We're working on the "Own backgrounds" functions and hope to get it out within a couple of weeks. We're also planning to add more customization options, but we have to get the basics right first. So far, we've received tremendous feedback, it seems like we've done something good :) Thanks again.
2 months ago
Mike de Lange says:
Congratulations with a successful (re)launch. Everything appears to be working very well so far. Well done.
I'm now looking forward to the promised "own backgrounds" functions, but was hoping that there would be more options in basic homepage design than the standard template with just different colour schemes and (dare I say) awful rounded box corners. Will some more design options be coming? Also, it would be great if we can have some basic text editing choices like different fonts, bold, italic, underlines, justification etc. If I'm missing these functions, I'd be glad if you can correct my errant ways.
Best regards, and again, well done!
2 months ago
Marianne Begaux says:
this is great, ahving a homepage is really usefull!!
thanks
2 months ago
lozanophoto says:
Welcome to my photo sharing site. Some albums are password protected and some are available for all to see. The layout has changed. Hope you enjoy it.
John
2 months ago
carl says:
@johnhepworth: thanks for the feedback John. We sent out information about this switch, specifically to users who had uploaded their own index.html pages in the root of their account (approximately 0.3% of the users). I'm very sorry if you didn't receive the e-mail, where we explained why and what changes were coming up. Please let us know if there's anything we can do to assist you.
2 months ago
johnhepworth says:
Hi guys,
It looks great and full of brilliant features but not all of us want this. My site has a look and feel that I want my visitors to see. It would have been a better approach for you to give us a choice and not just make the switch . I've now got to spend time redirecting my domain name to point at my original index page and not your new one.
I love jalbum and admire your work but I can't help but feel slightly annoyed that you've assumed you know best regarding what we all want.
In short a great step forward for JAlbum but it could have been handled better.
2 months ago
carl says:
@stephanebiton: it will! We just have some other stuff first in the pipe..
2 months ago
stephanebiton says:
in any case a big applause to all the photographers for their superb images
2 months ago
stephanebiton says:
should be that this site is not translated into French!
il faudrait que ce site ne soit pas traduit en francais!
2 months ago
stephanebiton says:
Björn Fant Merci!
2 months ago
Dor says:
@devid: first, compliments to the amazing photography. Regarding your questions:
- you've made one album with several sub-categories. If you want each category to show up as a thumbnail on your home page, you can simply break them out to seperate albums
- We will add more options to customize your home page, changing the size of the album picture on your home page is something we have discussed
- If people like your album or follow you they will be notified each time you make an update. It is a convenient way for you to notify your fans. It is also add an entry in your guest book so people who visit your web site know when your album is updated the last time. You can always delete those entries if you don't want them there.
2 months ago
devid says:
Somethings i would like to see before using it as my homepage:
-Why can i only see the ablums and not the gallerie image (i have only one album but many galleries)
-i cant't change the size of the album picture
-why is there a comment of myself everytime i make an update ?
2 months ago
carl says:
Oh 141R45, now you're making us blush ;)
2 months ago
141R45 says:
And it is a true pleasure of working with the team of Jalbum
2 months ago
141R45 says:
More over, as it has a concern there, all is regulated in the minutes, even Sunday. They is super
2 months ago
carl says:
@141R45: thanks!
2 months ago
carl says:
@Boarhunters: I see 4 albums on your page. Everything ok?
2 months ago
carl says:
@devid: we're working on the ability to upload your own background and header picture. Stay tuned.
2 months ago
141R45 says:
Jalbum fonctionne parfaitement. Il faut simplement inviter les personnes à les regarder. Si l'album plait, il se promènera naturellement...
Jalbum functions perfectly. The people should simply be invited to look at them. If the album likes, he will walk naturally…
2 months ago
Boarhunters says:
I have 4 albums in the Boarhunter space. Only 3 are showing the albumfoto.
Otherwise everything looks great. Is this site even in swedish?
2 months ago
141R45 says:
Tout comme charly221 : c'est super mais dommage que le site ne soit pas traduit en Français.
Just like charly221: they is super but damage which the site is not translated into French.
2 months ago
izard says:
Super mais dommage que le site ne soit pas traduit en Français.
2 months ago
Kristoffer Jelbring says:
Hi devid,
In the next site update you will be able to submit your own logo and/or background image.
2 months ago
devid says:
Wy can't i sumit a picture or logo in my custimized page !
Here's no room for htlm links like in de album !
i expected more :(
2 months ago
carl says:
Thanks Joel :) Great to have you on our site
2 months ago
joel assiag says:
TO JALBUM STAFF
FIRST I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR THE GREAT IMPROVMENT AND PROFESSIONAL WORK THAT YOU GUYS INVEST HERE AND IM SUPER HAPPY TO SHOW AND EXPOSE MY WORK HERE . AGAIN THANK YOU.!!!!!!!!
2 months ago
Kristoffer Jelbring says:
Hi, megatoad.
I'm sorry to hear that you are upset by the new changes. We felt that instead of trying to compete with all thousands of other web hosts we should focus on what we do best, to help people put beautiful photo albums on the web. We also noticed that a lot of our users were confused by the old hosting setup which also contributed to the decision to move away from being a general purpose web host and instead focus on album centric hosting.
Regarding your site, if you go to megatoad.jalbum.net/index.html you'll see that your index page still works, and it seems like your megatoad.co.uk site is pointing to that specific index page and not to megatoad.jalbum.net which means that your site will continue to work, or perhaps I have misunderstood your problem?
Feel free to send me an e-mail to kristoffer@jalbum.net if you wish to discuss any of this more in detail (and if you still wish to close your account you can e-mail me anyway because I can help you with that too).
2 months ago
Julian Carter says:
This sucks, I just use jalbum for album development and web hosting, now you have riuned my existing homepage !!! how do I turn off your web page grrrr
"if it aint broke, don't fix it"
2 months ago
weitahiti says:
Thank you to the Jalbum staff for showing my album in the Featured album.
All my encouragement for further improvement which make jalbum the best place for our image.
2 months ago
Björn Fant says:
stephanebiton,
Google transalate: Inscrivez-vous à votre compte JAlbum. Cliquez sur l'onglet Paramètres. Là, vous pourrez voir les thèmes que vous pouvez choisir.
English version of the text above: Sign in to your Jalbum account. Click the settings tab. There you will see themes that you can choose from.
(update: I see you've changed your theme now stephanebiton. Looks good! :)
2 months ago
stephanebiton says:
Je ne comprends pas ?
2 months ago
Monique says:
Great! You guys are really great! And thanks a lot for the speedy reply!
2 months ago
carl says:
Hey Monique, thanks for the nice feedback. We are working on manual ordering of your photo albums (and saving by title etc). Coming up soon!
2 months ago
Monique says:
I would like to congratulate you guys on the improvements you have made to the Jalbum site! It looks very clean and simple. Thanks! One question though: when I go into "detailed view" of my albujms, I can choose to order my albums by "modified" or "title", but each time I go back, the albums are rearranged again by order of "modified". How can I keep them by order of "title"? Or: it would also be nice if I could order them however I'd like (maybe just by dragging and dropping).
2 months ago
carl says:
@elt: We're working on that feature - coming up soon! Thanks for the feedback.
3 months ago
elt says:
Why can't I put my own picture on the background of my home page (in the way it is possible with Twitter). That would be very nice. I could not find it anywhere.
3 months ago
Dor says:
@weitahiti: The album is automatically in the Recent albums list, although it passes fast. Features are made of the Jalbum team. You just have to keep your fingers crossed ;)
3 months ago
weitahiti says:
Hello Dor,
I've published this album last night
http://weitahiti.jalbum.net/Macro-ph oto/
How could I be also in the Featured album tag? and the recent album tag?
Best regards
3 months ago
stephanebiton says:
en frnacais ca serai bien
3 months ago
Dor says:
Only new albums are listed in the Recent albums.
3 months ago
weitahiti says:
I have a question:
How do I get my album in the "Recent album" tag on the main page of Jalbum.net?
3 months ago
Björn Fant says:
Have fun! :)
3 months ago
weitahiti says:
Great, I like the new display of the main page. Looking forward to add my own image. Thank you for improving Jalbum.
3 months ago