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MrBill3

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Saturn, 3 questions
Posted: 7 Feb 23, 01:51
 
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I've created a fairly decent but still "rough" album: http://aa4m.com/jalbum/cars/2013miata/ I originally had MANY questions, but I dug and dug and managed to answer most of them myself. Here's what I still need to know:

  • When I try to upload an album I get the message shown in the attachment. But when I click OK the upload proceeds normally. What am I doing wrong?

  • Is there any way for me to use Windows wallpaper as a background for an album?

  • How to I get rid of the ad (spam) at the bottom of the thumbnails page?

Thanks, MrBill
RobM

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Re: Saturn, 3 questions
Posted: 7 Feb 23, 11:31   in response to: MrBill3 in response to: MrBill3
 
Upload issue.
Have you followed the instructions at https://jalbum.net/help/en/Publish_to_your_own_site
No expert on ftp but to me it looks like an issue with your web host, maybe it was temporary.

Credit link at bottom of thumbnails.
Check Settings>Pages>Credit links>Exclude credit links

Windows wallpaper.
If you don’t know where the images are stored search the web for the location on your version of Windows. I believe you will need to get permission from Microsoft to use their images in your website. Check the license terms of Windows.
JeffTucker

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Re: Saturn, 3 questions
Posted: 7 Feb 23, 15:23   in response to: MrBill3 in response to: MrBill3
 
On the upload error message, head for Tools > Upload/Manage. Try changing the server name from ftp.aa4m.com to just aa4m.com, then connect to your host. On most web hosts, that works just fine. In either case, once connected to your host, navigate to the directory that holds the root of your domain - on most hosts, that will be public_html. Then click the little "folder with a globe" icon whose tooltip is Mark as web root.

Using the Custom style of Saturn, you can provide an image for the background of the body of the album page. But it's set up to treat the image you provide as a small texture file, repeated over the page as needed to fill it. This is intentional - I'm always a bit mystified by people who create an album in which they want visitors to look at their photo's, but then clutter up the page with large, distracting elements.

But, if you insist.... As the body background image, make sure you choose an image that's large enough to completely cover a large monitor. If you've got an image that's bigger than, say, 4000x3000, that would be best. Otherwise, the image will get enlarged into blurriness on a large monitor. Add that to the album on the Custom tab of Saturn. Then go to Saturn > Code > CSS, and enter:
html {background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: cover;}
On the subject of the Credits link, RobM has addressed that.
MrBill3

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Re: Saturn, 3 questions
Posted: 8 Feb 23, 22:51   in response to: MrBill3 in response to: MrBill3
 
All problems are solved! Check the following link to see my final effort:

http://aa4m.com/jalbum/cars/2013Miata/

Note that the background was made from a little 4K 119x160 JPG file. If anyone sees any problems or has any suggestions, please do.

In the meantime, thanks to everyone for the outstanding support.

MrBill
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