Description
Story skin is a single page skin in which you can mix various content types; smaller and larger photos with text. You can even add custom sections of text or just any content.
By default the skin decides whether an image is displayed as thumbnail, wide image or full width based on its aspect ratio (use the crop tool!), however you can manually select it too in "Edit mode -> Image data -> Treat image as" box.
This skin is unique also because you can mix images, folders and custom content in any order.
Features
- Created
- Apr 22, 2020
- Last updated
- Jun 3, 2022
- 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
2.18.2 Jun 3, 2022 (current)
Fixed:
- The Fotomoto "Buy / Share" button did bring up the wrong picture
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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