Description
Story skin is a single-page skin in which you can mix various content types; smaller and larger images and videos with text. You can add custom text or any (HTML) content as custom pages.
By default, the skin decides whether an image is displayed as a thumbnail, a wide image, or a full-width banner, based on their aspect ratios, however, you can also set this behavior manually with the "Edit mode -> Image data -> Treat image as..." box.
Features
- Created
- Apr 22, 2020
- Last updated
- Nov 20, 2024
- Homepage
- Usage
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Commercial use is only allowed if you have a jAlbum Pro license.Modifications of the skin are allowed.
Releases
5.5.0 Nov 20, 2024 (current)
New:
- Possibility to control the slideshow interval and transition speed for images independently, see Edit mode -> Image data panel
- Double-clicking or tapping the image zooms into the clicked / tapped area
- The mouse wheel in the lightbox can be used for Navigation, Zoom, or left for the browser to handle it
Fixed:
- HTML and CSS validation errors
- PDF files do not appear on IOS devices
- "Show pages in the story" = "Link only" might result in unreadable buttons
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Check out the skin forum here!Previous versions
5.4.0 Oct 8, 2024
New:
- 3 new autopano speeds: "very slow", "moderate" and "quick"
Fixed:
- HTML and CSS validation errors
- Index page images aren't justified after returning from the lightbox when full-screen was used previously
- Inconsistent state of the full-screen toggle button after leaving the lightbox or exiting the full-screen mode with the ESC key
- When you select a language in the skin's user interface different from the main jAlbum language (in the Preferences) the dates might still show the original month and weekday names
- Photo data panel might be too narrow on portrait mode mobile devices
5.3.0 Aug 1, 2024
New:
- The slide pages (made to help share individual images to Facebook) can avoid automatic redirection, to help search bots (SEO) find individual images
Fixed:
- Hero title color might be hard to read when no image is used
- External videos are not loaded and handled as ordinary images
- Caption boxes incorrectly initialized with "Empty" value, even though the skin is using the real thumbnail caption (visible when selecting "[Custom]")
Changed:
- The thumbnail caption's position made "below" on all styles (instead of "over") to make captions readable on mobile devices
- Using "X" instead of "Twitter"
- Better calculation for legible text colors
- jQuery updated to 3.7.1
5.2.0 Jun 13, 2024
New:
- Hero image slider timing control
Modified:
- Slightly higher resolution images for the "Justified" layout for sharper thumbnails (It can cause the images to be regenerated, but it's worth the effort)
- Smoother mobile swiping experience
- "Settings / General / Address" is used to determine the upload path (takes precedence over the "Tiger / Advanced / Upload path")
- Caption templates show only the "preset" until they get customized
Fixed:
- Right-click "Treat image as" submenu might not work
- The wide video's opener button is misplaced
- Thumbnails fail to load after a wide video
- Panorama images fit horizontally, not vertically only
- 360VR initial view parameters passed as degrees instead of radians to the viewer, resulting in wrong Camera Tilt and Pan.
5.1.2 Apr 26, 2024
Fixed:
- Javascript error when using "Random images" in the Hero slider
- The lightbox does not work when the search has found only one image
5.1.1 Apr 25, 2024
Version 5.1.1
Fixed:
- The slideshow button does not start the slideshow if no timing control is allowed
Version 5.1
New:
- Added 11px, 12px, and 20px font sizes to Base font size box. It could be useful for languages using kanjis for example.
- You can control if PDF, DOC, and XLS files will be displayed through the Google Document Viewer. Please ensure your site allows external access to these files! See the CORS settings (in the .htaccess file)!
- Slideshow interval can be changed by the visitor (optionally)
- Images might come from subfolders when using the "Selected images" in the Hero slider. Don't forget to mark the folders you'd like to use with right-click -> Story -> Use in Hero slider.
Improved:
- Search made better overall
Changed:
- Clicking a label in the tag cloud or starting a search closes the panel
- The Base font size setting did not change text sizes in several places
- Variables used in Tag cloud and Search are treated as arrays (multi-value variables) when using ';' semicolon(s), e.g. "foo;boo" will add both "foo" and "boo" to the Tag cloud. This doesn't apply to the Comment and Title fields.
- Photo data panel made more flexible to cater to longer labels
- Load animation in the lightbox
- Favicon design
5.0.1 Jan 22, 2024
Fixed:
- Error when web locations are treated as folders, and the skin tries to gather small (mosaic) thumbnails from the folder
Updated:
- French and Dutch translations
5.0.0 Dec 15, 2023
New:
- Hero slider images can be manually picked. Use "Selected images" in the "Tiger / Site / Hero / Background image" box. Select images and folders with right-click -> Tiger -> Use in hero slider. You can select multiple images at once.
- You can easily control the "Panorama" and the "Hide GPS location options" with right-click -> Story submenu
- Right-click -> Story -> "Treat image as" option on the Explore page. This way you can easily control how the thumbnails are laid out on multiple images at once.
- Latin Extended character set can be added to Google Fonts when using English as an album language. Useful when you want to support all European languages.
- You can use tooltips (and even images) in the Shopping cart or the Feedback "Instructions" boxes, e.g. <span title="<img src='${resPath}/foo.png'>" data-tooltip>Hover me!</span>
Fixed:
- 360° VR panorama images did not use the Edit mode -> 360° image panel settings
- Contents page had separate sections for accented letters, e.g.: "É", then "E", then "É" again.
- The database loading has been made less picky about missing folders
- Range slider in filters might trigger JS error after returning from an overlay
- Keeping track of selected items might fail on overlays
- Reloading the album after the Slideshow timing has changed, might reset to its default value (4s).
- ${resPath} variable is ignored in the shopping cart instructions
- The page always jumps to the top when entering the lightbox
- The lightbox doesn't work on the "New images" page
Changed:
- Autopano now takes the autopano speed into account when calculating the maximum duration; now it can take longer than 20 secs to pano through a very wide panorama
- Maximal zoom can be bigger on High DPi devices (retina)
- Slideshow delay is represented as milliseconds, not seconds
- Other files, audio, and videos are now ignored when using "Random images" as hero background
- jAlbum 31.1.4 is the minimum requirement because of the right-click menu extension
4.3.2 Aug 29, 2023
Fixed:
- Update loop
- GPX files are only copied to the album when newer than the existing
4.3.1 Aug 28, 2023
Fixed:
- General JS error, when no Map is used
- Incorrect map center position when only one image has GPS coordinates
Updated:
- French and Dutch translations
4.3.0 Aug 24, 2023
New:
- You can add GPX paths to be displayed on the map by placing the GPX file in the Image directory (Ctrl-Shift-I)
- The function panels' auto-close delay can be specified, or auto-closing can be completely turned off
- Image captions can also be hidden on inactivity
Fixed:
- The calculated thumbnail dimensions for the "justified" layout were wrong
4.2.1 Aug 10, 2023
Changed:
- The font size in the lightbox caption was too small
Fixed:
- Some translatable text remained untranslated
4.2.0 Aug 9, 2023
New:
- Base font size can be defined in the 14px - 18px range
- Minimal cart value in the shopping cart
Changed:
- Embedded custom pages received a smaller, H3 level headline instead of the standalone pages' H2 level
4.1.1 Aug 5, 2023
Fixed:
- New images custom page triggers an error
- No images found when the New images page is embedded into the index page, and using "Date taken" or "File date" as date source
4.1.0 Aug 3, 2023
New:
- You can order the "New images" results in alphabetical order too (based on the Title or Filename)
Fixed:
- The last image might remain uncentered after swiping beyond the last image
- Sort by date in "New images" didn't work
- Files with a comma "," or multiple parentheses "()" in their names could not be found on the "New images" page
- When showing PNG images in the "New images" custom page along with "Force JPEG images" option, the lightbox gets broken
- The zoom slider gets unresponsive after reentering the lightbox
Updated:
- French, Dutch, and Hungarian translations
4.0.6 Jul 22, 2023
Fixed:
- The shopping cart always falls back to EUR, whatever currency selected
4.0.5 Jul 20, 2023
Fixed:
- Add button for the Shopping cart and the Feedback is missing in the lightbox
Updated:
- French and Dutch translations
4.0.4 Jul 18, 2023
New:
- Feedback buttons and tooltip customization options
Changed:
- The thumbnail dimensions never change during the project load to avoid minor calculation mismatches
- The thumbnail dimensions get only changed if the width or height needs at least 5% adjustment or the aspect ratio needs more than 1% adjustment
Fixed:
- The last image might linger on in the background after the first image is loaded
- Memory overload when closing the "after last image" dialog
- Clicking the image during the Autopano panning will stop it finally
- The last row in the "Justified" thumbnail layout might break into two lines
- Changing fast between skins (before the skin load is completed) might hang jAlbum
Updated:
- Italian translation
4.0.3 Jun 28, 2023
Fixed:
- Hero image slider displays images from the whole album (not just the current folder and below)
- Hero image slider displays images in sequential order, not random
Changed:
- Swipe snaps to horizontal-only movement once moved at least 20px away along the horizontal axis (provided the screen is taller than the picture)
4.0.2 Jun 23, 2023
Fixed:
- Swiping down a picture that's larger than the screen, always triggers the lightbox to quit
Updated:
- French and Dutch translations
Version 4.0.1
Changed:
- Added more default settings to styles, so you get consistent results when you switch from one to other
- Terra style to make it more different from other styles
Version 4.0
New:
- Slideshow in the hero: the images are randomly picked from the current folder and its subfolder
- Swiping down in the lightbox will result in returning to the index page
- The hero background image can be made "Black and White"
- New patterns: Cross Dark, Cross Light, and Zebra
- New styles: Elegant, Lavender, Peace, and Portfolio
- Hero title's style can be manually controlled: "None", "Darken", "Lighten", "Panel colors" and "Border"
- Corner radius setting makes elements' corners rounded
- "Black and White to Colored" mouse-over effect is applied to the folder thumbnails too, not only to the image thumbs
Fixed:
- Scrolling too deep when the button bar is placed above the hero
- When selecting folder mosaic tiles the skin skips duplicates
- Links in custom content might result in unwanted line breaks
- Images in the lightbox sometimes appeared with no transition after a swipe gesture on mobile devices
Changed:
- Many styles got redesigned
- The mouse-over effect (on thumbnails) received options better described
- Smaller text in lightbox captions on mobile
- Better text and link color calculations
Updated:
- Many language files got updated with jAlbum's new Auto-translate tool. If your language has incorrect translations, you can fix them by using jAlbum's translator tool: Tools / Translate / Translate selected skin
4.0.1 Jun 22, 2023
Version 4.0.1
Changed:
- Added more default settings to styles, so you get consistent results when you switch from one to other
- Terra style to make it more different from other styles
Version 4.0
New:
- Slideshow in the hero: the images are randomly picked from the current folder and its subfolder
- Swiping down in the lightbox will result in returning to the index page
- The hero background image can be made "Black and White"
- New patterns: Cross Dark, Cross Light, and Zebra
- New styles: Elegant, Lavender, Peace, and Portfolio
- Hero title's style can be manually controlled: "None", "Darken", "Lighten", "Panel colors" and "Border"
- Corner radius setting makes elements' corners rounded
- "Black and White to Colored" mouse-over effect is applied to the folder thumbnails too, not only to the image thumbs
Fixed:
- Scrolling too deep when the button bar is placed above the hero
- When selecting folder mosaic tiles the skin skips duplicates
- Links in custom content might result in unwanted line breaks
- Images in the lightbox sometimes appeared with no transition after a swipe gesture on mobile devices
Changed:
- Many styles got redesigned
- The mouse-over effect (on thumbnails) received options better described
- Smaller text in lightbox captions on mobile
- Better text and link color calculations
Updated:
- Many language files got updated with jAlbum's new Auto-translate tool. If your language has incorrect translations, you can fix them by using jAlbum's translator tool: Tools / Translate / Translate selected skin
4.0.0 Jun 22, 2023
New:
- Slideshow in the hero: the images are randomly picked from the current folder and its subfolder
- Swiping down in the lightbox will result in returning to the index page
- The hero background image can be made "Black and White"
- New patterns: Cross Dark, Cross Light, and Zebra
- New styles: Elegant, Lavender, Peace, and Portfolio
- Hero title's style can be manually controlled: "None", "Darken", "Lighten", "Panel colors" and "Border"
- Corner radius setting makes elements' corners rounded
- "Black and White to Colored" mouse-over effect is applied to the folder thumbnails too, not only to the image thumbs
Fixed:
- Scrolling too deep when the button bar is placed above the hero
- When selecting folder mosaic tiles the skin skips duplicates
- Links in custom content might result in unwanted line breaks
- Images in the lightbox sometimes appeared with no transition after a swipe gesture on mobile devices
Changed:
- Many styles got redesigned
- The mouse-over effect (on thumbnails) received options better described
- Smaller text in lightbox captions on mobile
- Better text and link color calculations
Updated:
- Many language files got updated with jAlbum's new Auto-translate tool. If your language has incorrect translations, you can fix them by using jAlbum's translator tool: Tools / Translate / Translate selected skin
3.5.1 Jun 8, 2023
Fixed:
- Swipe- and autopano-related glitches
- Autopano start position and speed sometimes got reset to Left/Slow
- Crackling sound on autoplaying videos on the index page while scrolling
Updated:
- French and Dutch translations
3.5.0 Jun 7, 2023
New:
- Panorama images can be started from the left, center, or the right end
- 3 speeds for panorama movement
- You can omit the folder path from the item description sent to PayPal
- You can choose Filename, Title, or Comment as item description sent to PayPal
- Setting for background music's initial volume
- Sitemap contains video links too
- You can ask the skin to create separate slide pages, so the Google image search brings visitors to the image right in the lightbox. Please note, this will almost double the number of album files.
Fixed:
- Auto-pano and swipe gestures didn't work together well; resulting in unnecessary/jerky moves
- After swiping a panorama image, the lightbox sometimes skipped a few pictures
- Tapping or clicking a panorama image currently in move didn't stop the movement
- After changing Facebook sharing or the sitemap's "Include slides" option, the slides were not generated (or unnecessarily generated) on the first Make album
- Pictures with regions or keywords could not be found when the search was initiated from the URL (#label=John%20Doe) if multiple names were used
- First and last names added as face tags appear separately in the tag cloud, e.g. "John", "Doe"
- Weblocations open in a new window from the top menu too, provided the related setting is turned on
3.4.0 May 25, 2023
New:
- Possibility to customize the email body in the social sharing options
- You can provide alternative labels (or translations) for every album
- All keys related to the Feedback feature can be customized. Comes in handy when repurposing the feedback feature as photo ordering.
- Setting for background music's initial volume
- Sitemap contains video links too
- You can ask the skin to create separate slide pages, so the Google image search brings visitors to the image right in the lightbox. Please note, this will almost double the number of album files.
Fixed:
- First and last names added as face tags appear separately in the tag cloud
- Weblocations open in a new window from the top menu too, provided the related setting is turned on
- Disabled shopping cart buttons can be clicked
Updated:
- French, Dutch, and Hungarian translations
3.3.0 Feb 7, 2023
New:
- Double-clicking on lightbox image zooms the image incrementally when the zoom slider is enabled
Changed:
- Max. thumbnail columns increased to 8 (was 6)
Fixed:
- Lightbox image is not centered
- Icon thumbnails might not align properly in certain thumbnail layouts
3.2.1 Jan 27, 2023
Fixed:
- Thumbnails with longer captions in justified thumbnail layout might not have even heights
- Page title might grow too wide on large displays
Version 3.2.0
New:
- Plain dark, Plain white, and Soft styles
Changed:
- All the styles got reworked using less harsh colors and better thumbnail layouts
- The Max hero height is replaced by Hero height, which can grow bigger if the content requires
- Default headline font has changed to "Barlow Condensed"
- Default headline overlay has changed to linear gradient: blue to magenta
- The continue button does not bounce if the hero is not at least 85% tall
- Masonry layout horizontally centers the thumbnails again in narrower rows
Fixed:
- Duplicated Title and Comment on custom pages: both in the Hero and the page content
- "Show thumbnail caption only on mouse over" cannot be disabled
- The footer's background color is taken from the Hero background overlay color even if it was set to not use colors
- Lightbox caption of the previous picture might reappear after toggling captions
- A tooltip might linger on from the index page after entering the lightbox
- A video placed after a folder might be not treated as a video
- When accent color is not used for the button bar, the buttons might get invisible
Updated:
- French and Dutch translations
Version 3.1.0
New:
- New thumbnail layout: "Justified", which is similar to "Masonry", but this layout always justifies the thumbnail blocks to the column width, by using Javascript
Changed:
- The lightbox image does not go behind the caption if "Fit between" is selected
- Simple title colors if no hero background image is used
- Hero section might be as small as 30% of the screen height
Fixed:
- On mobiles when the page is pinch-zoomed, previous/next navigation happens on panning
- Left aligned thumbnails in Grid or Masonry mode, when "No limit" is selected as "Max. page width"
- Videos cannot be started or are hard to start with the central play button on iOS devices
- The instant preview does not reflect when no background is selected for the Hero section
Updated:
- French, Dutch, and Hungarian translations
3.2.0 Jan 26, 2023
New:
- Plain dark, Plain white, and Soft styles
Changed:
- All the styles got reworked using less harsh colors and better thumbnail layouts
- The Max hero height is replaced by Hero height, which can grow bigger if the content requires
- Default headline font has changed to "Barlow Condensed"
- Default headline overlay has changed to linear gradient: blue to magenta
- The continue button does not bounce if the hero is not at least 85% tall
- Masonry layout horizontally centers the thumbnails again in narrower rows
Fixed:
- Duplicated Title and Comment on custom pages: both in the Hero and the page content
- "Show thumbnail caption only on mouse over" cannot be disabled
- The footer's background color is taken from the Hero background overlay color even if it was set to not use colors
- Lightbox caption of the previous picture might reappear after toggling captions
- A tooltip might linger on from the index page after entering the lightbox
- A video placed after a folder might be not treated as a video
- When accent color is not used for the button bar, the buttons might get invisible
Updated:
- French and Dutch translations
3.1.0 Jan 23, 2023
New:
- New thumbnail layout: "Justified", which is similar to "Masonry", but this layout always justifies the thumbnail blocks to the column width, by using Javascript
Changed:
- The lightbox image does not go behind the caption if "Fit between" is selected
- Simple title colors if no hero background image is used
- Hero section might be as small as 30% of the screen height
Fixed:
- On mobiles when the page is pinch-zoomed, previous/next navigation happens on panning
- Left aligned thumbnails in Grid or Masonry mode, when "No limit" is selected as "Max. page width"
- Videos cannot be started or are hard to start with the central play button on iOS devices
- The instant preview does not reflect when no background is selected for the Hero section
Updated:
- French, Dutch, and Hungarian translations
3.0.1 Jan 19, 2023
New:
- Recentering the image after hiding the control bar
Fixed:
- Buttons in the Lightbox have different colors
Changed:
- When "Black and White (lightbox) buttons" is selected, the caption panel also gets Black and White
3.0.0 Jan 18, 2023
New:
- The control bar can be placed above the hero image
- Top navigation menu can be displayed in the control bar (not only on a panel)
- Top navigation menu is replaced by a hamburger menu on mobile
- New thumbnail layout: "patchwork", similar to "masonry", but it varies on the vertical axis too
- You can use flat color instead a background image on the hero area
- Double-clicking the lightbox image changes zooming
- Single clicking can be used for toggling the controls and the caption (optional)
- Videos auto-start as you scroll the page
- New hero overlay pattern: "cubes"
- Lightbox captions are not limited to half of the viewport width
- If the layout requires larger thumbnails than the original, the skin will pick the best resolution from the variants
Fixed:
- Better title color calculations
- Error on shop options having empty line(s)
- PayPal won't work if no global shop options are specified (only local)
- Image count unnecessarily appears on web locations with search or tag search references in their URLs
2.24.2 Oct 31, 2022
Fixed:
- About and Contact custom pages might hinder Make album on jAlbum 29 and newer
2.24.1 Oct 18, 2022
Fixed:
- Google fonts were stored in the image directory's 'res' folder, which caused a ghost 'res' folder to appear in the album. They are now moved to the hidden '.jalbum' folder.
2.24.0 Oct 14, 2022
New:
- Unique background music can be assigned to each folder (select the folder, right-click + Edit, Image data panel)
2.23.0 Sep 20, 2022
New:
- Selectable icon set: Thin (as before) and Fat
Changed:
- The new features need at least jAlbum 24, therefore the compatibility requirement had to be bumped up
Updated:
- French, Dutch, and Hungarian translations
2.21.0 Sep 14, 2022
New:
- Selectable album language (if you'd like to use different from the application's language)
Fixed:
- Shop locale was not sent to PayPal
- Copy Google fonts failed with fonts containing space(s) in their names
- Copy Google fonts failed on older jAlbum versions
2.20.1 Sep 9, 2022
Version 2.20.1
Fixed:
- Version number
Changed:
- Embedded pages are not included in the bottom navigation
Updated:
- Dutch translation
2.20.0 Sep 14, 2022
New:
- Selectable album language (if you'd like to use different from the application's language)
Fixed:
- Shop locale was not sent to PayPal
- Copy Google fonts failed with fonts containing space(s) in their names
- Copy Google fonts failed on older jAlbum versions
2.19.0 Sep 8, 2022
New:
- Embedded pages are not included in the top navigation
- Google Fonts can be used locally, no need to access them from Google servers, which might arise GDPR concerns in the EU. See Tiger / Advanced / Copy Google fonts!
Changed:
- The title will not appear twice (once in the hero and once within the page content) on custom pages.
- Search box gets emptied after the search results get closed
Fixed:
- Embedded custom pages might mess up thumbnails if they appear before them
- PNG files' thumbnails are broken in the Shopping cart
- Broken Twitter share button
2.18.2 Jun 3, 2022
Fixed:
- The Fotomoto "Buy / Share" button did bring up the wrong picture
2.18.1 Jun 3, 2022
Fixed:
- Small images might get enlarged to fit the screen, even beyond the max. zoom level
- Actual image is not marked, resulting in broken sharing of the individual images
2.18.0 May 12, 2022
New:
- Audio clips can be played right from the thumbnail
- The last volume setting is remembered between folders and works both on the index page and in the lightbox
Changed:
- Audio clip settings are gathered under the new "Functions / Audio clips" tab
2.17.1 Apr 28, 2022
Changed:
- The slideshow gets suspended until the audio clip has finished
Updated:
- Hungarian and Dutch translations
2.17.0 Apr 22, 2022
New:
- Audio clips introduced in jAlbum 27.1 play in the lightbox. The skin's own "sound clip" functionality works too, but that was a lot harder to set up. Check "Settings / Tiger / Lightbox / Main image / Use sound clips" to enable the functionality.
Fixed:
- The sound clip button remains in playing state even after the clip has ended
Changed:
- "Use sound clips" is now on by default for new projects
2.16.1 Apr 1, 2022
Fixed:
- No live update of Web location counts done, even though "Gather information from linked albums" is on
2.16.0 Apr 1, 2022
New:
- You can choose between changing button colors to Black and White in the lightbox or leaving their original (index page) colors
- Image counts can be displayed on folder thumbnails
- Image counts work for Web locations too. You can also let the album dynamically read the latest stats from the linked album with the "Gather information from linked albums" option.
- You can hide images from Fotomoto, see Edit mode -> Image data -> Hide from Fotomoto
Changed:
- PayPal "Add cart", "View cart", Fotomoto "Buy/Share" buttons always show labels, even on mobile screens
Updated:
- Photosphere viewer to 4.5.1; the nadir is rendered much nicer in this version
Fixed:
- Icons are smaller in the lightbox's right top corner
2.15.0 Dec 17, 2021
New:
- During the slideshow the album tries to avoid screen lock / sleep mode. Works in Chrome, Edge, FireFox, but no support in Safari and a bunch of mobile browsers yet.
Changed:
- Auto-starting videos will start muted in the case the browser refuses to play them with sound
Fixed:
- ZIP-ped directories contain only the poster image of a movie file if the original is not included
- PayPal might truncate the shopped item's name if the path or the file name is too long
2.14.0 Dec 8, 2021
Version 3.14.0
New:
- Additional 2 and 3 column layouts for folders
Fixed:
- UI preview glitches
Version 3.13.2
Fixed:
- Vertical tabs in the UI might flow into two columns
Version 2.13.1
Fixed:
- New mark slips when folders and web locations are mixed
2.13.0 Nov 4, 2021
New:
- Image fitting / sizing in lightbox has been reworked
Fixed:
- Folders in search results don't have a thumbnail image
- Folders not marked as "new" in subfolders
- Moving GIF's replaced by PNG (not moving) versions in the lightbox
- Video, audio, and other non-image types appear as JPG's in the PayPal cart
- 360° panoramas ignored the "Field of View" and "Initial view" settings embedded in photos
- Folder info and bottom navigation is missing on custom pages
- Map doesn't appear
Updated:
- PhotoSphere viewer to 4.3.0
2.12.0 Oct 5, 2021
New:
- Variants support (read more about variants here: https://jalbum.net/en/blog/entry/jalbum-24-is-here)
- Search for folders, custom pages, and web locations work too
- Line breaks are replaced in comments with HTML BR tags. (Does not replace newlines between HTML tags.)
- Loop neighboring folders
- Switch to full screen for the lightbox
Fixed:
- Various bugs
Modified:
- Slimmer External content and Image data panels
2.9.1 Mar 26, 2021
Fixed:
- Search new images, or date range filtering might not return any image
2.9.0 Mar 25, 2021
New:
- Folder tree can be collapsible: subfolders (besides the current branch) are hidden by default. Useful when you have a large folder structure.
- Continuous zoom button shows "+" or "-" sign to mark the direction of zooming and also to be different from the search button
- Polish translation
2.8.1 Mar 18, 2021
Changed:
- Stumbleupon and Delicious sharing options removed as they went out of business
Fixed:
- Inconsistent Zoom toggle behavior
- Automatically calculated colors on the user interface preview might be wrong
2.8.0 Mar 10, 2021
New:
- Short videos (< 2s) loop automatically
Changed:
- Fit images: instead of "None / Fit vertically / Fit both" you can only choso to fit or not. Panorama images are automatically detected.
Improved:
- Scaling of various file types
Fixed:
- "Add cart" text of the cart button on thumbnails doesn't appear on mouse over
- Pause button might disappear temporarily after sleep
- Newimages custom page won't load images in the lightbox
- Lightbox image border (not 0) triggers scaling issues
2.7.0 Feb 25, 2021
New:
- You can hide GPS location by using Edit mode -> Image data -> Hide location (Make sure leave Edit mode or move to next image to save the state)
2.6.0 Feb 23, 2021
Added or fixed support for various file types (GIF, PDF, SVG) and formats like panorama or 360° panorama
New:
- Zoom slider: continuous zoom between the smallest and largest size (if originals are used that will define the largest size)
- Moving GIF files are played in the lightbox
- Displays SVG files in the lightbox
- Wide format movies has received an 'expand' button, so visitors can switch to lightbox
- Plays sound clips (mp3 files with same base name in the source folder) along with pictures and even movies
- Clicking a marker in the map brings up the photo in the lightbox
- Nicer previous/next folder links which display the folder name only on mouse over
Fixed:
- Swiping a vertical panorama up and down could trigger image change
- Auto panorama viewer
- 360° panorama viewer
- Wrong initial boudaries in map with more than one markers
- Could not select videos (for Feedback or Cart)
- Contents custom page links didn't respect "ask permission"
- Java error on the console when leaving the built-in browser
2.5.2 Feb 15, 2021
Version 2.5.2
New:
- Empty folder icon graphics selector (4 icon type: book, yellow, blue, hollow)
- "Treat image as", "Panorama" options displayed only for images
Fixed:
- Sitemap/Catalogue custom page links might be broken
- Link on folder's mosaic thumbnails did not ask permission for age-restricted folders
2.5.1 Feb 10, 2021
Version 2.5.1
Fixed:
- Neighboring folder links doesn't always find a folder
- Mouse over effect on (non-preloaded) thumbnails doesn't work
- askPermission JS error
Updated:
- Dutch translation
2.5.0 Feb 4, 2021
New:
- Possible to skip empty (no name) face tags
- Ask permission for entering a folder: just add a "Custom variable" called "askPermission" in "Edit mode" to a folder needs age confirmation. You can aslo customize the texts by adding a value of "Title text::Question text::Yes button label::No button label"
Fixed:
- When you start a video it plays in the background while the lightbox opens over it - in Safari with single and full width videos
- Single and full width videos not always fill in the available space
- Removed outline from videos when focused
Changed:
- Slightly changed folder icon - used on empty folders or when "Use thumbnail for folder icon" is turned off
2.4.0 Feb 3, 2021
New:
- Previous/next folder links work in deeper level jumps too
- Automatic slideshow continues in the new page if "Next folder" is selected as "After last image"
- Slideshow's pause button moves to the right edge upon starting the slideshow
Fixed:
- Automatic slideshow won't always start with "&slideshow" links
2.3.2 Jan 20, 2021
Fixed:
- Tracking consent asked even if disabled
- Map error: i['markers'] undefined
2.3.1 Jan 20, 2021
Fixed:
- Quotes in the title or page description might break the layout
2.3.0 Jan 19, 2021
New:
- Share box shows the preview of the actual (lightbox) image
Changed:
- Slightly changed Share box layout
Fixed:
- In case there are no external libraries (Facebook or Google) the Cookie consent alone isn't asked
- Can't display images on the New images page whose file name contains space or non-ascii characters
- Can't find lightbox image when using .../index.html#img=imgname.jpg link
2.2.2 Dec 21, 2020
Fixed:
- Share link didn't stay long enough
- Share image with slideshow didn't start slideshow
Improved:
- Better choice of icons on "After last page" dialog
- Better New images custom page layout when embedded
2.2.1 Dec 18, 2020
Version 2.2.1
New:
- Mosaic folder thumbnails are gathered from subfolders too if there aren't enough in the next level
Fixed:
- Cannot read property "applyFilter" error
- Wide and full width images are low resolution
- Share URL box missing
Updated:
- French and Dutch translations
2.1.0 Dec 16, 2020
New:
- Status line of jAlbum displays the currently processed folder during Make
- Preloading hero image
- Facebook share is possible from the lightbox too; the skin creates auto-redirecting slide pages for this purpose
- You can search for tagged people (See right-click -> Area tags)
- Tag cloud box can include tagged people too
Improved:
- Page performance by preloading fonts
- Progressive load (lazyload) on images
Modified:
- Better automatic "legible color" assigment
Fixed:
- Rating is hard to handle; no remove rating button
- Duplicate tag cloud box finds (wrong number indicated)
- Can't find keywords neither from search nor tag cloud search
- Face tags didn't work in the lightbox
Changed:
- <h5>, <h6> tags removed from the thumbnail and image caption templates, as these are not real headings
2.0.1 Nov 28, 2020
Fixed:
- Neighboring folder link's background image is applied even if disabled
1.15.1 Nov 20, 2020
New:
- You can hide a custom page with right-click -> Hide. This hides it from the index page but not the menus.
Fixed:
- Tag cloud search for keywords finds partial mathes too, e.g. "John Wayne" when searching for "John"
- MP3 files added within the pictures doesn't work
1.15.0 Nov 19, 2020
Version 1.15
New:
- Web locations can be displayed 2 new ways: "Small thumbnails" and "As folders"
Fixed:
- Web location "Link only" method always shows the thumbnail too
1.14.0 Nov 11, 2020
New:
- New option: "Go full screen on mobiles" when slideshow starts
- New option: slideshow "Always start with first image"
Changed:
- Interactive preview shows the "Continue to page" and "Start slideshow" button settings
- In case of gradient hero overlay the footer's background color will be the mix of these two colors
Fixed:
- Horizontal scrolling might appear on narrow devices (like mobiles)
- New images search doesn't work
- "Continue to page" button doesn't work on iPhones
Version 1.13
New:
- Besides or instead of "Continue to page" button you can have a "Start slideshow" button
Fixed:
- Music doesn't work at the top level page (broken link to mp3 file)
- Fotomoto button doesn't appear in the lightbox
1.12.2 Oct 31, 2020
Changed:
- "Up one level" and "Continue to page" buttons reverted to the previous arrangement: slightly closer to title
- Hero layout optimized for small screens
Fixed:
- Mosaic folder thumbnail layout on desktop browsers
- Extra characters at page bottom: ");
1.12.1 Oct 30, 2020
Fixed:
- Right click protection didn't work, and possibly can block other functionality
Updated:
- French, Dutch and Hungarian translations
1.11.0 Oct 28, 2020
Version 1.11
New:
- Search box can be moved to the hero area
- Folder thumbnail can be single image (besides one big + 3 mosaic as before)
- Share option: "Link" with optional automatic slideshow start
- Option to enable/disable copying robots.txt and humans.txt
- When turning server related file options off, the unnecessary files get removed
Fixed:
- Search might not give any result
- Hero content might stretch over the hero area
- Version number fixed
Modified:
- Improved shopping cart and feedback cart layout
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Version 1.10
Fixed:
- Might fail passing the feedback email or PayPal seller ID
Updated:
- jQuery library to 3.5.1 + fixing deprecated functions
1.9.0 Oct 22, 2020
New:
- Possibility to add custom content above the hero image
Fixed:
- Previous / Next arrows in the lightbox might not present in certain cicrumstances
1.8.1 Oct 21, 2020
Fixed:
- Dates before 1970 did not display as date range. Needs jAlbum 22.3+ also, because older versions could not handle end dates before 1970.
- Facebook shares on jalbum.net accounts might not work properly
Changed:
- Updated Contact.htt custom page for future compatibility with other skins
Updated:
- Updated Dutch and French translations
1.8.0 Oct 15, 2020
New:
- Option to ask user if the cart could be emptied after it has been sent to PayPal
- Metadata can be directly used in templates, format: ${meta.fieldName}, re. fieldName: right-click -> List metadata
Fixed:
- Broken thumbnails on feedback form (on top level)
- Odd formatting on PayPal and Feedback cart items' path
- Extra "PayPal" button might appear after the cart has emptied or sent
1.7.5 Oct 9, 2020
Fixed:
- Various errors caused by database error (tag cloud, search, shopping cart, etc.)
1.7.2 Oct 8, 2020
Fixed:
- No modified dates and image counts displayed in the footer
- Adding items to the cart from a subfolder might result in broken thumbnails in the cart
1.7.1 Sep 19, 2020
Fixed:
- No thumbnails load beyond the 20th if a video is also present
1.7.0 Sep 18, 2020
New:
- New hero overlay types:
None - no color overlay,
Flat - single color (as before),
Linear gradient - two color gradient
Radial gradient
Patterns: Blocks, Bokeh, Dots, Mosaic, Stripe
- Hero height can be set between 50% to 100% of screen height
Changed:
- "appear" animation happens only the first time you scroll to a photo but not every time you return
Version 1.6
New:
- Added HTML editing and spell check in the following boxes: Footer content, Album info and Custom content
- New option using "Mark new images": text, with ability to provide custom text
Changed:
- The Setting panel got smaller in order to work properly on small monitors too (down to 768px high)
- Some settings moved under tabs to make the interface less tall
Fixed:
- Folders are not marked "new"
1.5.3 Aug 12, 2020
Fixed:
- Links to images fail if the image name contains space or accented character
- Video added as wide image might end up twice in the story
- Too long filename might break the shopping cart layout
- Icon sizes got fine-tuned
1.5.2 Aug 8, 2020
Fixed:
- Image can't be added to feedback cart from the lightbox
Updated:
- French and Dutch translations
1.5.1 Aug 7, 2020
Fixed:
- Missing checkbox border on user consent request dialog options
- Image can't be added to cart from the lightbox
- Text on selection button - "Select all", "None" - unreadable on white background
Modified:
- Select box on thumbnails changes background color when selected, so it is easier to spot
1.5.0 Aug 7, 2020
New:
- You can create sitemap.xml (for Google bots)
Changed:
- New icons in the user interface and the gallery too
- Better "Select all", "None" button colors
- Photoshop-added and xmp.dc (Dublin core) metadata takes precedence over others in Photo data template (Use "Reset to defaults" in older albums)
- Photoshop-added metadata has simpler photo data labels
- Instead of all skin settings Story skin selectively imports the settings when changing skins (within Turtle family). This way it can preserve the skin's inteded layout.
- Removed "Custom.htt" because jAlbum 20+ will create the same when you select "Empty page"
Fixed:
- Various button/icon-related bugs
- File size changed to human-readable format in the header after filtering for size
- PayPal cart remove item button too small
- New file marking is hard to spot
- Thumbnail and Wide image thresholds might not kept
1.4.5 Jul 24, 2020
Fixed:
- Missing "Up one level" button
Changed:
- More top padding if the first block on a page is a Custom page.
1.4.4 Jul 23, 2020
Fixed:
- Selecting "No wide images" as Thumbnail threshold doesn't stick: resets to "No thumbnails" after reloading
1.4.3 Jul 22, 2020
Version 1.4.3
Fixed:
- Missing / wrong icons
Version 1.4.2
Fixed:
- Link to folder in the folder's name is broken in case you have changed the default page name
- Parts of the User Interface is inaccessible on small resolution monitors (< 800px high)
Changed:
- New (slightly modified) icon set
1.4.1 May 29, 2020
Fixed:
- Better sizing of panorama images displayed as wide
- Autopano.js is missing error (no panorama auto-play)
- Doesn't embed predefined custom pages with jAlbum 20.1
1.4.0 May 28, 2020
New:
- Calendar custom page (Right-click -> New page -> Calendar.htt)
- Different background for custom page sections
- Footer is depicted in the preview
1.3.1 May 22, 2020
Version 1.3.1
Fixed:
- Javascript error; folders or normal thumbnails fail to load
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Version 1.3.0
New:
- New option for "Where to go next?": "Next index page"
- Web location captions can be: "hidden", "beside" or "over" the thumbnail
Fixed:
- Validation errors and most warnings
Changed:
- The scroll position gets restored only if you come from within the album
Updated:
- French, Dutch and Hungarian translations
1.2.0 May 14, 2020
New:
- Option: embed only user-defined custom pages
- Web locations and Pages are grouped when they follow each other (and not embedded)
- You can completely embed an external page into the story
Fixed:
- Turning the mouse wheel over the lightbox caption resulted in picture change
- Better placement of rating box in lightbox
- Advanced / Custom code / <BODY> is ignored
- Web locations displayed as folders
Changed:
- Web locations layout
1.1.7 May 10, 2020
Fixed:
- Mosaic images on folders don't load after the 4th folder if no images exist on the page
- Empty folder's mosaic thumbnail is broken
Changed:
- Folder image proportions on various devices
1.1.6 May 10, 2020
New:
- User interface option for auto-hiding buttons
Fixed:
- Buttons get hidden permanently after inactivity in lightbox
Changed:
- Play/Pause button replaced with a lighter version
- Default behavior changed to not hide controls on incativity
1.1.5 May 9, 2020
Fixed:
- Highlight color on buttons linger on on mobiles
- Thumbnails / images got hidden intermittently on iOS
- If the full width image caption is empty the next section slides over the image
- Hero image oversized on iOS devices
- Distorted buttons on the opening (hero) screen on mobiles
- Continue to page button below the title didn't work on iOS devices
- Missing mosaic thumbnails on iOS
1.1.4 May 8, 2020
Fixed:
- Broken folder mosaic images if image name contains spaces or other non-ascii characters
Updated:
- French, Dutch and Hungarian translations
1.1.3 May 8, 2020
New:
- Custom content for footer
Fixed:
- Panels (and controls) might disappear and return only on the next picture
- Folder's mosaic images failed to load after the 4th folder
- Redesigned Photo data layout
- Improved footer layout
1.1.2 May 7, 2020
Fixed:
- Tooltips might linger on infinitely
- Error when using empty folder caption template
- Controls might disappear
Changed:
- Smaller headline fonts, especially in mobile view
- More consistent font size in <p> tags
- Share button changed for a more conventional one
- "Empty" removed from the folder caption template presets as it's not supported
1.1.1 May 2, 2020
Fixed:
- Mobile Javascript errors
- Toggling the controls/caption visibility by tapping the image on mobiles
- The focused button color remains infinitely
Updated:
- Dutch translation
1.1.0 May 1, 2020
New:
- The scroll position of every folder is maintained within 3 hours
- Removed previous/next buttons on touch interface
- Lights off mode: the previous/next buttons and top buttons disappear after manual picture change, return on mouse move or tap picture
Fixed:
- Album info might stretch over the page
- Better handlig of the caption in lights off mode
- Longer lightbox captions might get cropped
1.0.1 Apr 30, 2020
Fixed:
- Tooltips misplaced in some places and scroll even if the parent element stays put
1.0.0 Apr 29, 2020
New:
- Separate template for thumbnail/single/full width image captions
- New option to control the thumbnail's mouse over effect
- Improved custom pages
Fixed:
- Removed unnecessary fit to page button
- Custom content box inaccessible
Changed:
- Better fit page / 1:1 sizing logic in the lightbox
- Wide threshold set to 2:1 instead of 3:2
- Default Max. page width set to 920px instead of unlimited
- Optimized print layout
- Removed Facebook/Twitter share as default setting
0.9.2 Apr 25, 2020
Fixed/new:
- Missing lightbox caption / metadata
- Unnecessary photo data / download button in lightbox
- Added 3 new styles: Forest, Steel, Terra
0.9.1 Apr 23, 2020
Fixed/new:
- User interface for OSX
- Custom pages adapted to this skin
- Video / Audio support