Thanks Jeff, so as long as someone scrolls a bit first it'll do what I want it to then?
It depends on the browser, and is almost infuriatingly difficult to control. The underlying logic escapes me completely
So when you Mercury and Jupiter are not Lightbix skins - what does that mean exactly ? That just seem to have a slighlty different way of scrolling to the next image and no "X" to go back to the gallery. Is there something else I'm missing?
"Lightbox" skins and "separate slide page" skins are fundamentally different. Make an album with just a half-dozen images.
In a lightbox skin, there is only one page:
index.html. When you click a thumbnail, the large image is shown on that same page, using some Javascript. Try
Neptune, for example, but turn down the background dimming -
Neptune > Layout > Slides > Appearance > Dimming opacity. Try 50%, for example. Now you'll see what I'm talking about - when viewing the images, the thumbnails are still there, in the background.
In a skin that produces separate slide pages, like
Mercury, each large image has its own web page - so, the thumbnails will be on
index.html, then there are separate pages for
mydog.html,
mycat.html, and so on. Notice what's showing in the browser's address bar as you move from image to image. This is much simpler, but it also means that there are things that you can't really do, or at least not do well, like automated slideshows, background music (music can't persist when you move from one page to another), and fancy image transitions (the
mydog.html page, for example, contains only one image - it doesn't have access to the next or previous image, so it can't do anything tricky).
Search engines like separate pages, because they can provide a direct link to the page with your dog on it. With a lightbox skin, that is much more difficult to do, and may be impossible - the image of your dog doesn't have a unique URL.
