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Matrix

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Developed by: EarlyOut

Home page: http:/ / matrix.earlyout.org/

Support forum: Matrix forum

Nr of downloads: 66220
Last updated: 26 Nov 2009
Created: 14 Dec 2007

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Description:
Based on the Highslide JS thumbnail viewer.

* Provides a simple, clean visitor interface, with navigation options and thumbnails presented in a consistent style.
* User control over the Highslide JS background-dimming effect, image captioning, image positioning, borders, controlbar overlay.
* Allows extensive control over captioning options (titles, comments, filenames, EXIF info, tooltip popups, image count, "New" label).
* Allows extensive control over appearance and positioning of controlbar (prev/next, slideshow, move, and close icons).
* Optional slideshow feature.
* Option to include a sliding thumbnail strip on the enlarged image page.
* Configurable link to external page, configurable uplink from main page, selectable jump link from deeper folders to main index.
* Allows the user to choose any color combination, or to use one of several predefined styles. The ability to use custom colors makes the skin easy to integrate into an existing website. User may also apply background image/texture files to the pages, and insert a logo image at various locations on the page.
* Allows the user to apply drop-shadow borders to thumbnails and/or enlarged images using simple GUI controls.
* Allows the user to select a font and a "fallback" font family, and to select font size, weight, style, and variant for each design element.
* User-configurable language support.
* Image filters for watermark, grayscale, fixed-shape, zoom.
* Copyright notice, meta description, W3C validation icons, support for multiple headers and footers.

This skin is based on the Highslide JS image viewer, which is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License.
Highslide is free for non-commercial sites but for commercial use, a license must be obtained. Please go to http://highslide.com for further information.

Matrix version 4.12.0:

* THIS RELEASE REQUIRES JALBUM 8.5.1 OR BETTER.
* The user interface is now compiled, to speed skin loading.
* Highslide JS and Easing Equations Javascript files compressed for faster page-loading.
* Several default settings changed.

For a history of prior enhancements, see Settings / Matrix / About / Matrix Release Notes.

Previous versions (1)

Comments

EarlyOut says:

Password protection is really a function of the server operating system. If you host on jalbum.net, you can apply a password to any album. If you host on another webhost, you can password-protect the directory in which the album resides, using that webhost's routines.

FotoPlayer includes a password-protection mechanism, but it relies on server-side processing, using PHP. Matrix, like most skins, does not require server-side processing, and I'd like to keep it that way.

Posted 16 days ago

richchrono says:

Great work!

One question: can u password protect different albums?

Posted 16 days ago

EarlyOut says:

Owen - Glad you like the skin. I keep looking for ways to make it more customizable, without it getting so complicated that it's unwieldy.

A "cross-index-page-slideshow" is on my list of future enhancements, if I can ever figure out how to make it work properly! The Highslide JS script isn't really geared towards doing that (it generally works with only the images that appear on a particular page). There is a way around it, but when index pages might also have subfolders on them, it gets very, very messy, in a hurry. I'm waiting for the flash of inspiration to show me the way to implementing it. ;)

For my own albums, I usually end up putting all the thumbnails on one index page (set rows to 0) - I've discovered that my visitors prefer that, anyway. It's lousy if you're trying to display the album in an iframe, however.

Posted 1 month ago

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