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General Jalbum questions
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Jalbum is the easiest way to create your very own photo album site that you can share with friends and family.
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- Jalbum allows for endless customization of your photo album site. Customize with skins and widgets.
- You can publish your Jalbum photo site anywhere, on your free yourname.jalbum.net account or on your own web site.
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You can publish Jalbum albums to any site you have access to. Your Jalbum account is the easiest alternative, simply use your Jalbum user name and password to publish.
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The frog is called Dor and was a hand puppet David (Jalbum founder) had as a child. It has come alive with Jalbum and is now our community mascot and company logo.
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We believe in the popularity and goodwill that comes from providing something good for free. However, this alone doesn't pay the bills. Instead of charging for Jalbum, we ask our fantastic community for
support and try to find
partners who can add neat stuff for the Jalbum users and are willing to share some of their revenue.
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Jalbum is free to use for commercial web sites, our only requirement is that you link back to our site either in the album (there's a link in almost all skins) or if you prefer from another page on your web site. We hope you think that's fair. However, if you'd like to charge for Jalbum software or as a part of a commercial offering/package, you need a license agreement from us. Please contact
license@jalbum.net for further information.
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Jalbum accounts
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The free Jalbum account holds 30Mb, which is approximately 200 web-sized photos. If you want to upload more, you can
upgrade to Premium or Power account. Consider it a fair, relaxed way to try out Jalbum accounts.
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The free accounts will have ads (we'll try not to make it look like a Christmas tree and still work out economically). Premium and Power accounts are totally ad free.
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First, make sure the confirmation e-mail isn't blocked by your e-mail service (put in the spam folder for instance). If you still can't find it, please e-mail
account@jalbum.net with your username from the e-mail address you used when you registered the account.
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No worries, we will not delete your Jalbums. You will however not be able to surf to your albums or publish to your account. As soon as you extend you'll have full access to your account and albums again.
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Jalbum software
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- Download, install and sign in the Jalbum software
- Drag and drop images into the software
- Choose skin and click "Make Jalbum"
- After Preview, click "Publish"
See the video tutorial "Publish your first Jalbum"
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- Open the Jalbum project you'd like to modify (File -> Open recent album project) in Jalbum software
- Make the changes and click "Make Jalbum"
- Publish (only the changes will be uploaded)
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In Jalbum software:
- Click the arrow on the Publish button and choose "Manage..."
- Double-click your account to connect
- Mark the album and click the "Delete" button
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There are several ways, either:
- Create a new album project within Jalbum.
- Drag and drop each image folder you wish to add to the album into Jalbum software.
- Click "Make Jalbum" and then "Publish".
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- Make a new folder on your computer and give it a suitable name
- Drag and drop image folders into the folder you have created. One image folder for each sub album.
- Drag and drop the main folder (the one that contains the image folders) into Jalbum software. Click "Make Jalbum" and then "Publish".
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Go to
http://jalbum.net/skins and find a compelling skin. Clicking the "Install skin" button will download the skin. Simply double click the icon that was saved to install it in Jalbum software (you can also drag and drop the skin onto Jalbum software). Now it’s ready to use for your next Jalbum.
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No, uninstalling Jalbum won't delete your albums, images, or project files. Enjoy the latest version!
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That error is triggered if you install Jalbum 8.2 on top of an earlier Jalbum installation. Make sure you have removed the old installation directory completely before installing Jalbum 8.2 and you will be fine. Simply running the old uninstaller isn't always enough.
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Using this site
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Sign in to Jalbum.net and go to Settings on your "My pages". You'll find the "Notification settings" there. Check or un-check if you want e-mail notifications for different things happening on the site and on your Jalbums. You can always sign in to jalbum.net (here) and see your notifications on your "News" page.
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If you like a Jalbum you see on the site you can add it to your favorites by clicking the yellow star in the browse bar or when hovering over a thumbnail. The Jalbum publisher will get a notification of your appreciation.
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On each large thumbnail you see on this site you can hover over the mouse and find a comment option. Click it and comment that album on that users board.
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Sign in to Jalbum.net and go to Settings on your "My pages". Click the "Password & E-mail" tab and change it there.
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Jalbum widgets
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Widgets are little tools that add functionality like visitor commenting to your Jalbum. Each Jalbum can have its own set of widgets. The widgets are visible in a discreet little toolbar in the bottom of your Jalbum. You activate the widgets on your Albums page here on jalbum.net.
Learn more about Jalbum widgets.
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- Create and publish a Jalbum with Jalbum 8.1 or later
- Go to your Albums page and click "Manage widgets"
- Check for the widgets you'd like to add to your Jalbum
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Advanced
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A lot of things can be set in the Jalbum user interface and on the skin specific tab (see album settings), but if you don't find a user interface control for what you'd like to adjust, add or change in the final album (font sizes, alignment etc), edit the skin template files instead, there is even a tutorial for this if you find it hard. The skin template files are basically html files stuffed with some Jalbum specific tags and variables. They form the base for all generated album pages. Use a plain text editor like Notepad to edit or an html editor like Frontpage. If you are adjusting a size, font or colour, edit the style files of the skin instead (see the styles directory of the skin you are using). NEVER modify the generated html pages, or you will find yourself having to re-modify them every time you generate an album.
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More formats, like TIFF, BMP and JPEG2000 can be added through the
Java Advanced Imaging Image I/O Tools plugin from Sun. Other file types are supported as linked icons (edit the filetypes.xml file to support more file types).
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Some skins (like Chameleon) have their own settings for this, but here is the general solution: Usually one puts a Jalbum album in a subdirectory of a web site. Jalbum will automatically add a "parent/up" link on the thumbnail/index page(s), but only if it senses index web pages in the parent directory of the output directory during page generation. You can force Jalbum to generate a custom link by defining the variable parentIndexPage to ../index.html or whatever that points users back to your site in the "User variables" settings of Jalbum.
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Well, some skins have the possibility to protect from right click and save. However, the bottom line is that if a person can see your image, he/she can save a copy of it. Read more
here.
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Watermarks can be added to the generated images by using Jalbum filters. Some skins (BluPlusPlus and ShowOff for instance) also have special fields for entering watermarks in their user interfaces, but you get the best flexibility out of manipulating Jalbum filters right away. More information about image filters can be found
here.
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- Start Jalbum software
- Click the arrow on the Publish button and choose "Manage…"
- Double-click your account name.
- Mark the album you'd like to protect and click the lock icon. Enter any name and pass word for your Jalbum.
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