The trouble is surely my getting my old photos processed and ready to make a gallery "every so often" is similar to people who take a trip once a year. If you want to use such a tool you need to know that this happens and keep the version you started with! So if I catch up, I will find myself in the same position next year UNLESS I stop updating. Looks like all that has to stop updating is the skin... (But I could be wrong).

NOW one could ask that skins not make major changes without allowing more than one version of a skin to be installed. For some other purpose I might want new features in photoblogger... But only one can be installed on a single desktop, I assume...

I created an album using my own images, then started with the settings from your old album. Things have changed a lot, but it's more "evolution" than "revolution." Now remember, Photoblogger is not my skin, and I don't use it for any of my own albums, so it's mostly unfamiliar to me. Took me less than one cup of coffee and a little tweaking to get to this:

(demo album removed)

Pretty close, I'd say. And this is an album that's coded to current standards. Well, mostly - Laza's stuff never fully validates, unlike my excellent skins.

Ignore the fact that my images don't have proper titles on them (so you'll see the file names in the lightbox), and don't have IPTC location info (at first, I was wondering where the " - - " was coming from, until I looked at your lightbox caption template).

I'm not sure what the typography in your original album should look like, because the fonts aren't loading on your site (modern browsers have tighter security), but my demo is using the fonts called out in your original project file. They probably need some size adjustments, but that's fairly easy.

It doesn't look at all like my albums.

Really? Please explain what important differences you're seeing.

They work on the latest firefox and chrome and on my phone, they are responsive. I don't care much about fonts. The issue with the one gallery is a fluke -- the rest all work. Responsive was the important point.

I always wrestle with the choice of being The Enabler or not. It often just leads further and further down the rabbit hole. Glad to see you're stepping up to the plate!


Won't work. Importing the settings from the old project will automatically select Photoblogger as the skin, overriding the Photoblogger197 initial choice, leaving you right back where you started.

When I do this (usually as part of testing new versions of my own skins), I find that the only way to handle it cleanly is to edit the .jap file of the target project, and manually change the name of the skin.

Thank you Jeff and Rob!! I like the renaming idea. And my first thought was it would go look for the real Photoblogger, and I should copy the jap, but you covered that... Copy the jap and edit it. Thanks for being an "enabler"! It may be the wrong choice, but it looks like no matter what way I go I'm going to have to not update the skins in order to keep the same look. I think this problem should be better documented... I can't believe I'm the only one who wants to add a photo gallery the same as the others, for example annually after a vacation...

No problem with shopping basket with these, nor are these galleries important -- just something I want to make easily available to friends and family. Any shopping basket problems are for another day... I don't even want to THINK about that! Maybe I'll never update it... It's not photoblogger, but tiger. I may have already updated that with the tiger that's in JAlbum now. I noticed a note that I had to get rid of the nasty background photo behind the text on the main page, so I may be good to go with the tiger now installed...