You can use your Jalbum albums in many ways. Publish them to your Jalbum account and share them with the community, share them on Twitter or Facebook, or in blogs. Here are a few examples:

The Jalbum blog badge.
Above your albums on your home page, you'll find a button that says "Share albums in blogs", which takes you to your own blog badge. If you have a blog, that's a convenient way to share your albums.

Share an album in a blog post.
On each album thumbnail on the site you'll find a "Share" button. That gives you quick links to share on social networks, but also convenient links to use for e-mails, web sites and blogs. I'll post an album below. It automatically creates a picture with a link to the album. Neat huh?

Integrate albums in your web site.
If you wish to give your site visitors an integrated experience, there are easy ways of integrating Jalbum albums to an existing web site. This travel agency is a good example, check out their integrated costa rica album here. If you'd like to do the same, read this tutorial.

We love to see creativity flow. That is usually where the most innovative solutions appear and the most appealing trends emerge. In the true spirit of Jalbum we’ve created a way for you to customize your home page under the Settings tab. Here's a brief tutorial on how to use the new features.

Upload a background
The background image will be displayed behind the content of your pages. You may upload any image (max size is 1 MB) and position it as you see fit. By default all images will be horizontally centered, but you may change this under the tab "advanced options". There you also find the option to tile the background that creates a flowing pattern from your image.

Upload a header image
The header image will decorate the top of your home page.  Upload an image to see what it looks like. The image should have these dimensions: 980px width x 180px height. If the image is larger than these dimensions the system will automatically crop the image to make it fit. Smaller images will be displayed just the way they are. You may also set the opacity of the header to make it semi-transparent or transparent.

Change page colors
Background – The color visible if you have no background image
Menu bar - The Jalbum menu background
Menu text - The Jalbum menu text
Header bg – The color visible if you have no header image
Header text  - The color of the text visible in your header
Links – All the links on your pages
Boxhead  - The background colors on your user page boxes
Boxhead text - The text colors on your user page boxes

All users can try this feature out but you must have a premium or power account to be able to save your creations.

Have fun!

Here are a few users who are already getting started with this new feature:

http://mikedl.jalbum.net

http://photoferrer.jalbum.net

http://terschellingfoto.jalbum.net

http://kyungjin.jalbum.net

http://pedaal.jalbum.net

http://sasssoft.jalbum.net

http://cplighting.jalbum.net

http://jbalbum.jalbum.net/

http://Thpals.jalbum.net

http://djpp.jalbum.net

http://drummers.jalbum.net

http://Polly470.jalbum.net

http://spazio-satori.jalbum.net

http://weitahiti.jalbum.net

Whenever someone clicks the "Like" button on your album, he or she will appear in the list of "People who likes your album" on your home page. They will automatically subscribe to updates for that album. Now, when we first released the new site, there was no option to show a list of all of them if you had many Likes. Now that's fixed. If you have more than 30 Likes on your albums, there will appear a "View all" button under the list.

How many likes do you have? :)

From the bottom of our hearts – Thank you all Jalbumers! The new site has been deeply appreciated by the community. Thank you for all the love e-mails and flood of donations. It makes us feel that we are doing something good for you guys.

The new features are really being used like crazy out there. It’s a pleasure to surf around and look at all the creative customizations of user homepages. Check out theses guys for example.

da-vid.jalbum.net

loloe.jalbum.net

tomcee.jalbum.net

We are now aiming at enabling the next level of flexible album creation and sharing. But we are not gonna tell you what it is just yet. :)

Again, Thanks for your support. It is greatly appreciated and empowers the entire team.

Keep Jalbum free and fun. Keep supporting us.

There are many ways to connect with a fellow Jalbumer: the Jalbum forum, a user profile guestbook, an album comment, widget comment, a skin comment and… a personal message!

The personal message is a powerful feature and the only form of communication where you may send private messages without broadcasting your voice to the rest of the community. We have made following the message conversation much easier with the new site release. All your messages in a conversation are threaded into one conversation page.

This is the first step in creating a more flexible private messaging platform. In a near future we will also engage in developing multi-user conversations to allow groups of users to participate in a discussion around a subject. We believe this will be useful when you need to have a separate discussion with an album creator or skin developer with questions on album customization or individual image compositions.

Every user in the community has a “send message” button on their profile page. This is the most convenient way to send a message to a receiver. But, you also have a kind of secret address book. All the people that are listed on your Follow page are listed in this book. When you write a new message from the messages pages, this will come in handy. Start writing the name of a user and the website offer to auto complete the name if it is someone you are following.

The new Jalbum.net site is all about making things easy and fun to work with. That's why we decided to change "Favorites" to "Likes". If you find an album interesting or inspiring you can show your appreciation by a simple click. You can "Like" an album when viewing it with our browsebar or by moving your mouse over an album thumbnail image on the site. When you "Like" an album, the album owner is automatically notified (and probably happy about it) and you are automatically following any updates or activities such as comments on that album.

We have also changed "Contacts" to "Follows". If you like what a particular photographer is publishing you can easily subscribe to updates by Following him/her. You'll find a "Follow" button on each users home page. You can also see who is following you. In a way, they are your fans.

 Have fun!

Publishing your albums on jalbum.net is convenient but what if your audience is elsewhere? We added some features to help you share your album via email, blogs or other social websites like Facebook and Twitter.

On your homepage you simply hover the mouse over a thumbnail image and loads of sharing options will be accessible. When sharing to another social site you will be sent to that site with the link to the album attached. Log in to your site and you should find your way from there. We also offer you to link to your album by posting a link on websites, forums etc. The most common link code formats are available for you.

The best part is that you cannot only share your own album, but every album on jalbum.net. If you see a beautiful album and need to show it to your friends, this option is instantly accessible. Same goes with anyone else finding your album and want to share it.

Are you a blogger or run a website?

Don’t forget to check out the Jalbum blog badge. It is simply a matter of copy a snippet of code from jalbum.net/create-badge to have a nice looking ticker show a feed of your latest albums.

I'm a happy guy these days. We have a brand new site up and running and Jalbum 8.4, our application, is just finally released.

More convenient

Do you know what is the most asked question I get? It's "How do I delete a published album?". You can now delete published albums via our site if you like. Deleting them from within Jalbum has always been possible, but has been hard to find. Not so anymore. Jalbum 8.4 lists your recent album projects in the left pane of the window and has a context menu that allows for easy deletion of published albums, local albums or the whole album project. It is now easy to reverse operations like "make album" and "publish". The new recent album project list gives you a better overview of your album projects and simplifies continuing on album projects you created earlier.

More informative

There is also a new information window that helps you getting a better understanding on where things are put and how disk space they take.

To give you a better understanding on how much space you have used on your account, Jalbum 8.4 now displays an account status bar in the lower right corner of Jalbum's window. It updates automatically to reflect changes to your account.

There is naturally more to tell. Check out the release notes and get your copy of Jalbum 8.4 here!

It might seem strange to dedicate an entire blog post on how to remove your albums from your account. Well, we've received tons of support questions on how to remove albums. It has obviously been too complicated to delete albums. Up until now, you had to manually remove the files by opening the publish window (gee, what were we thinking...) in the Jalbum application. It was never our intention to make it complicated to delete an album and this is still an option if you prefer it, but we have made it far easier.
Sign in to the Jalbum community to see all your albums. Hover the mouse over the album thumbnail and select edit album from the appearing menu. In the edit album page you find every option you need to edit and share your album. This is also where you can delete your album.

Feel free to do some autumn cleaning and replace your albums with new and fresh creations.

We're on a roll in the Jalbum HQ. We have a brand new site up and running and Jalbum 8.4, our application, is just around the corner now. We are basically just awaiting translations from our wonderful translators around the globe. The new version is a lot more convenient to work with. We'll tell you all about it when we release it sharp, but please go ahead and try it out right now. Enjoy!