Author: Kristoffer

Here at jAlbum we are always looking for interesting stories about how people use our services. This is how we came across Mr Urbano and the 591 Photography Blog. The blog hosts an impressive number of photographers and uses jAlbum as a tool to create amazing online photography exhibitions filled with the kind of high…

One of the key findings from our recent user survey was that a lot of you are having problems with finding a suitable skin for your albums. This gave us the motivation to finally do something that we have postponed for the last four years – a complete rewrite of the skins section of our…

Hello World! For years, our desktop software has been translated to 32 languages by helpful jAlbum users, but the jalbum.net site has sadly only been in English. Today this is changing, as we are releasing a multilingual version of the site! Thanks to the help of our wonderful users jalbum.net is now available in German,…

March is in the books. Spring is coming along nicely all over the northern hemisphere, plants are sprouting and animals are coming out of their winter hides, and this is reflected in the albums submitted to our explore section. We celebrated this with a spring sale on our accounts – thank you everyone who took…

(Photo by Turbobent) It's starting to look like winter is finally about to give in and spring is just around the corner. We are starting to see more and more spring albums in our Explore section, and this weekend user Schocos started a new group dedicated to spring photos! The new spring group is already…

February has come to an end. It's been a great month for jAlbum. We released a new version of our desktop application, introduced a new way to upload your photos with jAlbum Instant, and relaunched our blog. In addition to that thousands of great looking albums have been published. We really appreciate the diversity and…

Did you know that you can get rewarded for sharing the jAlbum experience with your friends? Well, it's true! For every friend that you invite you will get 50 MB of extra storage for your account (up to a limit of 500 MB). That means extra rooms for thousands of web sized photos! Inviting your…

Our online album creator was recently updated with the addition of a new skin. This time the turn had come to Expo. The concept of the Expo skin is simple. By minimizing the number of disturbing elements in the gallery it keeps your photos in the center of attention. It's also one of few skins…

As I am writing this a snowstorm is roaring outside the jAlbum HQ. Furious cold winds are covering everything in white. Days like these it is very hard not to long for the sunny summer time. Fortunately there are other sides to the winter season as well. Beautiful sides. Therefore we have put together a…

  New design We felt that it was about time that our blog got a make over! The new blog design should better match the current look and feel of the rest of the site.   New bloggers You can expect more posts from several members of the jAlbum team! We want to use this…

  Forum supporter and skin developer extraordinaire EarlyOut has released another fantastic skin: MatrixSlide! This skin is a specialized subset of the Matrix skin. It does not produce a thumbnail page – visitors to the page are immediately placed in a slideshow of the enlarged images. It makes a very clean and sophisticated photo presentation,…

We are really enjoying all the activity around the new Jalbum Groups. You have done a fantastic job creating groups! Finding albums with common themes has never been easier! Here are a few of your groups that we have noticed: Architecture "For those who love taking pictures of architecture : urban landscapes, buildings, etc. Share…