Notables is my first and currently my only skin.  Why call it Notables?
Because it uses no tables (html code) and I hope other people can use it for their notable pictures.

This skin has, as far as I know, a unique feature - an option for the "slide" page is that one image can transition to another.  I wanted this so I could display old photographs that have been restored, so the slide page starts with the unedited image and cross-fades to the restored image.  You can click on the images to toggle between them.  The effect is probably better than the restoration work!

For an example have a look at this album

RobM 

If you are curious to know what is being said about JAlbum on the net, the JAlbum buzz page is where to go. The page displays a continuously updated list of links from forums and news sites where JAlbum is mentioned. The buzz page is also where you will find the latest version of the JAlbum download map, showing the software and skin downloads of the world. The "JAlbum in the news" section on the page shows editorial news about JAlbum. Have you seen seen other online articles where JAlbum is mentioned? Please let me know:

Hello there!

My name is Michael Schøler, and I'm a frequent user of JAlbum, and have been for quite some time now. I run my family website as a Wordpress blog, and having a couple of twins, age 2½, our little family produces "a few" photos each and every month of the year that need sharing with family and friends.

This has been a somewhat tedious task of making Wordpress play nice with login protected JAlbum's and vice versa, so I finally managed to pull together some of my skills in the field of computer science - 5 years of university studies finally paid off ;-) - resulting in a small new plugin which makes it possible to directly integrate JAlbum photo galleries into a Wordpress 2.0+ blog system.

Do you also want to save some time when you blog your photos? Simply download my WP_JALBUM v1.0 plugin from the Wordpress plugin database, and unzip it into the Wordpress plugins folder and you're set!

The plugin features an easy to use wizard interface which lets you set up how to integrate your desired JAlbum gallery (and even multiple galleries) into your article posts.

• Easy to install, just unpack to plugins folder.
• Integrated fully in the Wordpress settings and editor.
• Easy to use wizard interface, no need to enter any HTML.
• IFrame album post integration (use JAlbum theme).
• Wordpress album post integration (use Wordpress theme).
• Localizable album frontend. Any language can be applied.
• Share login protected thumbnails on your blog but not the photo originals.

The plugin is configured using the Wordpress options page:

^{The Wordpress options page for the JAlbum plugin}

The wizard now integrated in your Wordpress editor has three modes: "Full album", "Single photo" and "IFrame full album" (I'm working on more).

^{The Wordpress editor wizard for the JAlbum plugin}

The first two modes lets you integrate one or more thumbnail sections from existing JAlbum galleries into your Wordpress layout, regardless of the choosen JAlbum theme. The plugin does this, by accessing the generated thumb and photo files directly, and applying the stylesheets from your current Wordpress theme automatically. These two modes are capable of sharing thumbnails of login protected albums on your blog system. You could also for instance choose to have the first 8 photos shown from an album gallery of several hundreds of photos - which gives the visiting user a small appetizer in your blog, instead of swamping it. When the visiting user clicks one of the thumbnails in the blog article, the full JAlbum gallery is opened in its own browser window, allowing for any needed authentication to be carried out for the full album access and giving the user a more comfortable user interface for navigating through a large gallery.

The last mode "IFrame full album" brings the entire JAlbum into your blog article, with the original JAlbum theme still applied. This gives you a great option for showing off your latest photos directly in the blog, with all the effects and eye-candy JAlbum offers. This solution is ideal for small galleries. Since this mode requires access to the entire album, it must be be a public album with no authentication required.

Remote and local galleries are supported in the IFrame mode, whereas only local galleries are supported in the two direct integration modes.

I'm working a second IFrame solution which is a combination of the two methods described above, ie. a method for sharing the thumbnails in a JAlbum themed album in your blog post, which requires authentication when an enlarged photo is requested.

For further installation, documentation and usage instructions please read through my JAlbum plugin for Wordpress page.

So, just start snapping your holiday photos and enjoy the thought of how easy it will be to share the pictures with friends and family when you get home!

Best regards,
Michael Schøler
Denmark

When I got my first Mac in 2005 (coming from Windows, as a happy JAlbum user) I was fascinated by iPhoto -- for the first time photo handling was easier than ever (at least for me). Importing images from the camera, managing folders/albums/captions/comments, diashows, ordering prints - everything in one single application, which is also tightly integrated into the operating system and a lot of free- and shareware dealing with imaging. However, when it comes to publishing photos to the web iPhoto has major drawbacks (in my opinion). I tried a lot of software, including Apple's own solutions and various free- and shareware. But none of these iPhoto addons satisfied me and also none reached the feature-richness and easy handling of JAlbum. So I decided to continue using JAlbum and as a bridge between iPhoto and JAlbum I wrote a small tool, iPhoto to JAlbum Exporter, which exports one or more albums from iPhoto together with their captions and comments and stores them in a way that JAlbum can process them. The album hierarchy as well as the album and image order are preserved during the export. With the help of iPhoto to JAlbum Exporter creating a JAlbum page from an iPhoto album has become a simple 2-step process.

/Felix

Welcome to the JAlbum blog
There is so much going on in the JAlbum community with skin updates, new plug-ins, updates on the site and software, that most JAlbum users never hear about. The JAlbum newsletter and the forum simply isn't enough to cover everything. That's why we have created the JAlbum blog.

Since we didn't want to open up an empty blog, we have filled it with posts from previous newsletters. Happy reading :)

We have recently released JAlbum 7.2. I'd like to take the time to tell you about some of the things we have focused on this time.

Better ordering
For years users have been wanting more flexible image and folder ordering. Imagine you have one album folder for each event/trip you make. It would then be handy to have the album folders ordered by reverse date - the last one first, but at the same time have images within each folder ordered by date. Before JAlbum 7.2 you had to make such an arrangement manually, but now JAlbum can keep folders automatically ordered as you like, and images ordered as you like. Another improvement is that JAlbum remembers the ordering on a per-folder basis so as you add new images to your computer, they become ordered automatically. No need to order them again.

Mp3 background music
I believe the right kind of background music really adds a dimension to some web based slide shows. Some JAlbum skins provide the ability to add background music, but this hasn't been that easy in practice. In order to simplify matters we've now equipped JAlbum with an embedded mp3 player and a playlist control. Skins that allow background music can now use this playlist to allow you - the album maker, to easily add, pre-listen and arrange music for their final slide shows. (The final slide shows don't use the embedded mp3 player, they usually rely on a Flash based player). So far the "Slide show" and "FotoPlayer" skins make use of this playlist. I hope more are to follow.

Improved publishing
We've made a number of small enhancements to the publishing window of JAlbum. Apart from various bug fixes, the most notable improvement is that you can now drag and drop folders on the server to rearrange your albums after you've published them.

Did you know that more than 3000 people download JAlbum every day? We were curious on a more visual way of displaying downloads so we developed a rather neat map service showing current JAlbum downloads over the world for the last hour (powered by Google maps). It includes location for download and if it's a Mac, PC or Linux download. It also shows skin downloads from our new skin download section. If you're a skin developer, I bet you will keep an eye on this one when you release new versions of your skin :-). Want to have a peek? It's all at http://jalbum.net/maps. As you can imagine I can spend hours looking at this map ;-).

Some quick observations: JAlbum is really popular in the Netherlands and Germany, but the US actually makes up for most downloads (22%). We wonder where users from Asia are. Perhaps we need to have the JAlbum site in more languages. What do you think? If you want to help us in translating some key web pages to your language, please contact: