Turtle 3.4.8 August 11, 2012 Turtle.jaskin

New features

• Movable and resizable modal windows, e.g. the search results or help
• Facebook commenting is placed below the theme image in vertically split layout

Fixed

• Better drop shadows on folder and top menu elements
• Top menu ellipsis problem on Google Chrome
• Broken links in search results to files with extended characters with URL-encode links on
• Broken links to folders containing extended characters in top navigation and in Sitemap page
• Missing modal windows (album info, at last page, search results, help) – fixed in 3.4.8
• Broken Album info window – fixed in 3.4.8

Notes

• Please note, I have removed the version 3.4.7, because that had a serious bug, so the release notes above contains the points for both versions.

Turtle 3.4.6 August 01, 2012 Turtle.jaskin

New features

• Theme images in subfolders can have different height
• You can use the same Theme image on all pages (in all sub-albums) as the one selected for the top level folder

Turtle 3.4.5 July 30, 2012 Turtle.jaskin

New features

• Theme image heigth can be controlled separately for Pages (e.g. Contact)
• You can use all four arrow keys when navigating through the thumbnails
• Optional Full screen mode for slideshows
• ESC key brings one level up from the index page
• Clicking outside the images brings back the index page
• New Google+ share button
• New Portuguese translation by Luis Simas Menem

Fixed

• Pressing Enter on the index page did not always go to the selected image

Changed

• Thumbnail scroller effect changed to “smooth” (previously “elastic”)

Turtle 3.4.4 July 19, 2012 Turtle.jaskin

New features

• “New” mark can be relative to “Date taken” (Exif date) or “File modified”
• Added CSS code box to apply CSS changes easily (and retain after skin updates)
• Watermark position, strength and size controls added

Changed

• If Title is the same as the Filename, no duplicate line appears in the Search results

Fixed

• Numpad * = start slideshow works from idex page too
• Problem on some browsers with understanding the headline font
• Shipping fee was missing if the first item in the shop options didn’t have shipping
• Shipping used flat rate (shipping only added on the first item of the same picture)

Turtle 3.4.3 July 10, 2012 Turtle.jaskin

Fixed

• Missing Image caption, Thumbnail caption and Photo data templates on new albums

Turtle 3.4.2 July 9, 2012 Turtle.jaskin

New features

• You can give a name to the “up link” (e.g. “All albums”)
• ZIP originals or down-scaled images per folder and offer for download (not only the whole album)
• Facebook commenting follows the chosen language of the album

Changed

• The “up link” feature has been moved into jAlbum’s functionality, see on “Settings / Pages” panel.
• Facebook Like, Twitter Tweet and Tumblr buttons removed from the individual images, because they were not referring to the image, but the whole album.
• The default theme image size is 900x240px

Fixed

• Missing thumbnail of videos with “Link to originals” with no “Copy originals”
• Bug with XLSX, DOCX, PPTX files
• Facebook commenting might run out of the scroller area if there were no album images in a folder
• Control bar graphics in Creme style broken
• No comments when followed the link back from Facebook

Updated

• French translation by Danamel
• Korean translation by Jaehyung Lee, Hungarian translation

Notes

• jAlbum will take over the old up link settings of Turtle.
• ZIP originals works even if you don’t select the “Link to originals” or “Copy originals”.
• The ZIP feature always creates (and Uploads) the ZIP files even if that’s unnecessary, because Turtle cannot detect if the files has changed. We might implement some change detection later. Sorry for the inconvenience!

Turtle 3.4.0 Jun 20, 2012 Turtle.jaskin

New features

• Facebook Commenting
• Visitors can download the whole album as ZIP

Fixed

• Controls should disappear quicker on touch devices
• Videos did not scale to fit initially, only after clicking the fit/1:1 button
• Thumbnail for sharing was not available when none of the sharing was selected

Please note, due to the fact the ZIP format does not store the Encoding (locale) of the file and folder names you might get broken file names (and albums) after extraction on Widows. Java encodes these names to UTF-8, which is used by OSX and Linux by default. Windows, however, is decoding them using the visitor PC’s locale (never UTF-8). We will create a little applet by which visitors can decode these ZIP files properly, but until then I suggest you to keep with simple ASCII file and folder names, and use the “Title” field in Edit mode to add accented characters. This method is more safe for using the album on the web too.

For the Facebook commenting feature you will need to create a new app on Facebook’s developer center: https://developers.facebook.com/ Copy the App ID in Turtle’s Facebook App ID box. You can use the same App ID on all pages of your site.

Turtle 3.3.5 Jun 1, 2012 Turtle.jaskin

New features

• Headline font size can be controlled through the user interface
• You can disable adding ALT tags to images (avoid search bots to pick keywords)
• Automatic image correction filter
• You can add custom code to the HEAD and BODY sections

Fixed

• Better “Stick controls to top” behavior

Updated

• French and Hungarian translation

Turtle 3.3.4 May 29, 2012 Turtle.jaskin

Fixed

• Overlapping rows of folder thumbnails
• Right-click protection on thumbnails too
• Navigation bar looks broken in Gold style in IE8 and below

Turtle 3.3.3 May 25, 2012 Turtle.jaskin

Fixed

• Top navigation menu clipping

Changed

• Filling the thumbnails into the scroller area on the index page instead of centering
• Using only common.css (styles.css is integrated) to speed up page load

Updated

Turtle 3.3.2 May 23, 2012 Turtle.jaskin

New features

• Added base fonts to Headline font choice
• Added link to sample fonts
• Separate headline font (33 hand picked web fonts from http://www.google.com/webfonts/)

Fixed

• Occasional clipping on top ascents of web fonts
• Added album name to Paypal / Google Checkout selling notifications
• Control bar did not show up in IE8 and below (Modernizr library problem)

Updated

• Korean, French and Hungarian translation

Turtle 3.3.0 May 14, 2012 Turtle.jaskin

New features

• Fotomoto integration
• Global font size setting
• High(er) resolution poster images for audio and video players
• You can change the order of thumbnail categories on the index page: folders / pages / images

Fixed

• After swiping right of the first image it has left positioned off-center
• Names in facetagging were missing from the ALT tags
• The interface language of the Paypal shopping cart has changed to British English when the currency is GBP (it seems to affect the shipping too)
• TIF, TIFF has added as native image extension

Changed

• Removed the unused currencies from shopping cart
• Revised fonts stacks, thanks to http://www.awayback.com/revised-font-stack/ and http://unitinteractive.com/blog/2008/06/26/better-css-font-stacks/

Turtle 3.2.0 May 03, 2012 Turtle.jaskin

New features

• Ability to move over the images larger than screen with the mouse, or with the arrow keys (useful for panoramic albums or originals)
• Search finds all words independently, doesn’t require exact match

Fixed

• Shopping cart quantity reset to “0″
• BMP files appeared as “other” file types, hinted to open with an external viewer

Turtle 3.1.2 Apr 24, 2012 Turtle.jaskin

Fixed

• Missing folder thumbnail after the first “Make”

Changed

• No duplicate Title in the search results if your Image caption template already includes the ${title}, ${fileTitle} or ${fileLabel} variables
• Copying the folder thumbnails to “safe” place is not automatic, you have to select the “Copy folder thumbnails” on the Advanced panel, but with this setting on you might need to run “Make” twice to get the thumbnails copied.

Turtle 3.1.1 Apr 20, 2012 Turtle.jaskin

Fixed

• Missing folder thumbnail in certain cases
• Album background audio was broken
• Shopping cart quantity might be 0 // fixed with a silent release on 04.21.

Updated

• French translation by Danamel

Turtle 3.1.0 Apr 18, 2012 Turtle.jaskin

New features

• Regions (Face tagging) support with site-wide search for names
• Custom content can be added to an image either as “iframe”, a link to an external site or as custom html code
• Added alt tags to thumbnails in order the search engines can pick up the captions, keywords and face tags
• Quantity cap for shopping cart
• Fit to screen works for videos, audios and custom content too
• Added page templates for Sitemap, Contact and About page
• Added real-time license checking in order to skip the nag screen for license owners
• You can hide the “Start slideshow” button
• Links to custom pages can be included in the thumbnail scroller area, below the folders
• No broken thumbs from Password protected folders (the skin copies them to the index level)

Changed

• Reorganized – hopefully more logical – skin settings
• Control strip disappears much quicker
• Smaller animated progress indicator
• Made top navigation bar hidden by default

Fixed

• Broken links to GIF images when using Link to originals
• Some validation errors
• Background audio using album files don’t work
• Custom background image placement was always left top

Turtle 3.0.5 Mar 27, 2012 Turtle.jaskin

Fixed

• Hidden folders were visible in the navigation menus
• Unnecessary refreshes in Google Maps

Turtle 3.0.4 Mar 27, 2012 Turtle.jaskin

Fixed

• Paypal shopping cart quantity always sent as 1
• Google Maps partly displayed sometimes

Fixed

• German translation

Turtle 3.0.3 Mar 22, 2012 Turtle.jaskin

New features

• You can have the breadcrumb path displayed below the page title

Fixed

• Paypal shopping cart opened in the main window, replacing the album (not as a popup) on IE
• Map did not display properly in certain circumstances
• void “Help” link on pages without images
• Preformat text and target=”_blank” in links might conflict
• “Search…” placeholder text in the search box made translateable

Updated

• French translation

Known issues

• Sending locale information to Paypal has implemented, though it doesn’t seem to accept

Turtle 3.0.2 Mar 16, 2012 Turtle.jaskin

New features

• You can set the default visibility of the Photo data, Map and Selling photos panels, that is you can show them by default, the visitors don’t need to click the toggle button
• You can skip the folders from the top navigation bar – useful if you have too many folders

Fixed

• Handling the folder descriptions (preformatting and using variables) is unified throughout the albums
• Multi-line menus look better (don’t overlap the page title)
• Map did not display in full width after hiding and showing the panel again

Turtle 3.0.1 Mar 13, 2012 Turtle.jaskin

This is a service release to fix some minor bugs.

For the major release notes please refer to this post: Turtle 3.0.0 is out

New features

• You can skip the folders from the thumbnail list (if you prefer the top navigation bar)
• Option to remove the “Help” link from the footer area

Fixed

• Top navigation bar was too deep on IE and FireFox
• Links in folder descriptions got broken in the header
• Replacing index.htt with your own caused an extra “index” link in the navigation bars
• Control bar and panel background graphics could disppear and re-appear only after a page refresh
• The logo in the top navigation could run out of the bar

Updated

• French translation

Turtle 3.0.0 Mar 2, 2012 Turtle.jaskin

Turtle 3.0 with support for jAlbum’s new site-creating possibility. You can add now any html page to an album integrated seamlessly.

Right-click anywhere in jAlbum, thumbnail mode, and select New Page. Name it as. e.g. Contact.htt, or whatever the purpose is. Double-clicking the icon will bring up a simple HTML editor where you can add HTML structure, while selecting Edit will offer you editing the Title and Comment (text content) of the page. These pages then become part of the album structure, and will appear in the top (or footer) menu bar.

Please note, Turtle 3.0+ requires jAlbum 10.4 or newer in order the new features work.

New features

• Support for custom pages
• Multi-level top navigation bar
• Simple bottom navigation bar in the footer
• Better vertically split index page mode
• Updated icons and colors to improve the buttons visibility on the index page
• Share button is integrated better with the other (Info, Search) buttons
• Home button in the navigation bar
• Search within custom pages too
• Thumbnail captions can be placed below the thumbs (no only as tool-tips as before)
• You can add a logo and use as Home link in the top navigation bar
• Background image can be added to every style and you can position and tile whatever you like
• Image count in footer can be hidden
• Modified New date calculation is based on Exif original date (if found)

Fixed

• Search works with PNG and GIF files too
• Partly cut off footer area in FireFox
• Control bar did not disappear on touch devices
• Too dark gradient on the theme image in IE
• Folder image was re-generated with every Make unnecessarily
• Map was bleeding on the right edge if the image width was too large
• Text readability fixed with some styles
• Choppy picture moving during swipe

Updated

• Swedish, Hungarian, Italian, German, Finnish and Spanish translations

Usage

• Commercial use is only allowed if you have a jAlbum Pro license.
• Modifications of the skin are allowed.
• To get rid of the nag screen you have to pay for a jAlbum Pro license.
• The built-in video player has proprietary license, see longtailvideo.com.