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DaveC

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Using Plain skin
Posted: 25 Jul 24, 15:42
 
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I am adding comments but am not sure if or how I can modify them to intrude less into the images. Some are quite long. Is there perhaps a better skin for comment entry?
JeffTucker

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Re: Using Plain skin
Posted: 25 Jul 24, 16:25   in response to: DaveC in response to: DaveC
 
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Long comments are the bane of skin developers. The jAlbum model has always been "photos, with perhaps a short caption." It's never been geared towards "The Great American Novel, with an occasional illustration."

You might want to try one of my skins - I never let the text overlay the image, period. That does mean that the image gets smaller as the text gets more voluminous. If you want responsiveness, there's no magic.

The lightbox skins, like Neptune, do eventually run out of room, and things get ugly. The slide page skins, like Mercury, are better able to handle verbose comments. And one option in Mercury is geared especially to "lots of text:"

https://jefftucker.jalbum.net/skins/mercury/sidecaptions/

And Jupiter has a slide page option that keeps the image responsive to the viewport size, but lets the caption create vertical scrolling on the page, if needed.
RobM

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Re: Using Plain skin
Posted: 25 Jul 24, 17:15   in response to: DaveC in response to: DaveC
 
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You can have comments as long as you like with Missive skin, sample with short comments and Journal skin, with long comments

They are both quite different to most other skins.
DaveC

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Re: Using Plain skin
Posted: 25 Jul 24, 17:49   in response to: JeffTucker in response to: JeffTucker
 
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Thanks for the suggestions. I ultimately went back to FancyBox which does a good job "outside" the image. I will take a look at Neptune and Mercury as I do like to add text. Feel free to look at my album: https://jalbum.net/a/2116850
Still learnn' but I'm a slow learner.
JeffTucker

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Re: Using Plain skin
Posted: 25 Jul 24, 18:06   in response to: DaveC in response to: DaveC
 
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DaveC wrote:
Feel free to look at my album:

Not to my taste, I'm afraid. The design sort of screams "1998!!"
RobM

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Re: Using Plain skin
Posted: 25 Jul 24, 19:53   in response to: DaveC in response to: DaveC
 
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DaveC wrote:
Thanks for the suggestions. I ultimately went back to FancyBox which does a good job "outside" the image.
Just a reminder, if you need support for FancyBox you will need to contact the developer directly, not via the ‘Other skins forum’.
MarkusD

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Re: Using Plain skin
Posted: 31 Jul 24, 08:58   in response to: JeffTucker in response to: JeffTucker
 
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JeffTucker wrote:
DaveC wrote:
Feel free to look at my album:

Not to my taste, I'm afraid. The design sort of screams "1998!!"

I copy that impressions. What really is hard to stand is the slide effect, after watching a couple of photos I feel like see sick. This effect is very bad.
MarkusD

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Re: Using Plain skin
Posted: 31 Jul 24, 09:40   in response to: DaveC in response to: DaveC
 
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DaveC wrote:
I am adding comments but am not sure if or how I can modify them to intrude less into the images. Some are quite long. Is there perhaps a better skin for comment entry?
What is your definition of "long"? I sometimes use long comments, they show up fine. Example

The comment is:
Vor Streckenabschnitten die irgendwie kritisch werden könnten sieht man solche Tafeln. Sie zeigen links die Windrichtungen an, also etwa „N“ was mutmaßlich für „Norden“ steht, dann folgt die Temperatur und rechts steht meistens nichts. Wenn etwas steht, dann ist das die Windstärke in m/s. Über 15 m/s scheint die Anzeige dann rot zu werden. Warum man hier die Zahlen nicht lesen kann? Das dürfte ein technisches Phänomen sein. Ich müsste vermutlich an meiner Kamera mit meiner Verschlusszeit deutlich runter gehen. Dieses Bild hat „Exposure Time=1/125 sec“ das ist wohl noch zu viel.

What effects how it looks is the screen size of your device, watching on a tablet or smartphone will look awful even with a shot comment like: "My Cat".

For me Tiger shows comments, even long ones, pretty good.
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