Base 2.1.3 Sep 18, 2012

Changed

• support for jAlbum’s new back links

Fixed

• minor html formatting bugs

Base 2.1.2 Aug 7, 2012

New feature

• You can remove the Title (or fileName) from the header part on the slide pages

Fixed

• Removed the unnecessary <footer> tag when it was empty

Base 2.1.1 July 19, 2012 Base.jaskin

Fixed

• Missing thumbnails when other skin turned off thumbnail generation
• Missing thumbnails when not using the “Copy folder thumbnails to current level”

Base 2.1.0 May 25, 2012 Base.jaskin

Now the page templates are integrated into jAlbum’s User Interface. Just right-click in the thumbnails area in jAlbum and select: New Page -> About.htt for example.

New features

• Added Page templates for About, Contact and Sitemap pages
• Thumbnail navigation can be placed below the main image too
• Added the same base font set as in Turtle (see here)

Fixed

• Several fixes (taken over from Turtle skin)
• Top navigation works in IE7

Base 2.0.1 Base.jaskin

Base skin service release – fixing minor bugs.

New features

• Processing jAlbum variables in Header and Footer content

Fixed

• Top navigation misalignment when logo is added
• Replacing index.htt with your own resulted in an extra “index” link to appear in the navigations
• Contact box text was hard to read in Simple Dark style

Base 2.0.0 Base.jaskin

You can create complete sites with Base 2.0.0, thanks to jAlbum’s new site creating feature.

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, Base 2.0+ 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
• Breadcrumb path now includes the Up link (if exists)
• Your logo in the top navigation bar
• Header and Footer content can be added through the user interface

Base 1.0.2 Base skin 1.0.2

Fixed

• IE compatibility mode fallback
• 2 validation errors (missing alt tags)
• Outline on image areas when clicking for the previous/next page

Changed

• Document mode to HTML 4.01 strict (in order IE not fall back to quirks mode)

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.

Site

Show top navigation

Select to display a multi-level, site-wide top navigation menu at the top of the index page.

Exclude folders

You can exclude the folders and display only the custom pages.

Logo

Include a logo at the top left corner of the navigation bar, linked to the top level album page. The max size is 180x40px. Suggested format: 8bit transparent PNG.

Link from the top level page

Adds a link which takes you one level up from the top level page. You can use any absolute or relative URL, not just the one level up (../).

Use breadcrumb path

Breadcrumb path is the clickable path of upper-level folders.

Use search box

Add an album-wide search box to your albums. Can search in the Title, Comment, Keywords and Face tag fields.

Skip thumbnail page

Visitors will taken straight to the first image in the album. However if there are sub-albums, you can’t skip the thumbnail page.

Offer download for…

• Nothing = to turn off this feature
• Scaled-down images = allow visitors to download the screen resolution images in the current folder packed as ZIP file
• Originals = allow visitors to download the original images as ZIP file, even if you did not include them normally in the album
• The whole album = visitors can download the whole album packed as ZIP file

Please note, albums using extended (accented) characters in file or folder names cannot be properly unzipped on Windows, because Windows decodes these characters mapping to the viewer PC’s default character set, while Java encodes always with UTF-8 encoding (which is capable of representing any character in any language). The files can be restored properly on every other OS though.

Design

Font family

The base font for the album. Unfortunately you can choose only from a limited set of fonts that are available on most PC’s.

Font size

The basic font size relative to browser’s default (~14px)

Headline font and size

The font used on the header as album or folder title. This can be a web font too: see this post!

Background image

Select your own background image. You can also specify its position and tiling too. Please note, the “Stretch to fit” option does not work in old browsers, like IE8 and below.

Use 3D effects

You can turn off the 3D effects, like the drop shadows, and inner shadows if you prefer.

Stick controls to top

Stick the control bar to the top of the screen / right below the thumbnail scroll area.

Colors

Specify the page colors here.

Border color and width

The normal images can have a border specified here. Set ‘Border width’ to 0 if you don’t need the border.

Header

Theme image size

Specify here the top “theme” image size dimensions. The default is 900×300 px which yields a normal (horizontally split) layout. If you’d prefer the vertically split arrangement, use a portrait image size here, e.g. 400×500.

Same image in subfolders

Use this option if you want the same image appear in the subfolders, as you chose as album thumbnail (a.k.a the top level folder’s “Folder thumbnail”).

Height on Pages

The height of the theme image on Pages, like “Contact” or “Sitemap”. By default it is 80 the smallest possible height.

Height on Subfolders

The height on subfolders. Please note, if you use the “Same image in subfolders” option this can’t be higher than the theme image height.

Album description visible by default

You can choose if the description (given in the Settings / General panel for the whole album or in the Edit mode for the subalbums) is visible by default or only when the visitor moves the mouse over the header area.

Show “Start slideshow”

Do you want a “Start slideshow” button over the theme image area.

Album info window

You can add an “Info” window to your albums. An (i) button will appear on the header’s top rigth corner, and clicking it the header will be displayed on a popup window. You can put simple or formatted text here, or even HTML code. Make sure to turn off Preformat texts on pages, album info and footer on the Advanced panel. You can also control if this info should be added to only the top level album page or to all pages with the Top level only box.

Reducing the theme image size If most of your visitors using laptops or other low resolution devices you might want to reduce the splash image height. E.g. 750x250px should work even on 800x600px screens.

Excluding the theme image from the album Simply right click the thumbnail and choose “Use as folder thumbnail” and “Exclude” it before you make the album. This way the image will only serve as theme image but not get into the album.

Simple text formatting bold *foo* = foo     italic: +foo+ = foo     underline: _foo_ = foo
image: !http://c3.jalbum.net/res/icons/languages/16x16/sv.png!   
link: [http://jalbum.net/] http://jalbum.net/
named link: [Visit jAlbum.net!|http://jalbum.net/]    Visit jAlbum.net!
you can even link through an image:
[!http://c3.jalbum.net/res/icons/languages/16x16/sv.png!|http://jalbum.net/]

HTML formatting You can use HTML tags to format your header or footer. Even Javascript code! Please note, the code might be broken if you don’t turn off the Preformat text option! Example:
<img src=”http://mysite.com/logo.png” style=”float:left;” /><br /> <h2>Welcome to my site!</h2><br /> <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amed…</p>

Thumbnails

Mark files “new” less than … days old

Mark files with a small [NEW] label if they are new at the time of viewing. Put 0 here to skip the sign.

Reference

• Date taken = The date when the photo was taken regardless of later modifications
• File modified = The last modified date

Fixed shape thumbnails

Crop all thumbnails to the same size or keep their original proportions, i.e. show all the pictures uncropped (which results in mixed portrait and landscape thumbnails).

Zoom

You can prezoom the thumbnails to have a narrower crop. Use 0% to get the least cropped.

Items order

The order of the Folder / Page / Image groups. The default is Folders → Pages → Images

Folders

Show description

Choose to show the folder description along with the folder thumbnails (added in Edit mode).

Show image count

You can choose if you want to display the image count in the folders.

Pages

Show page excerpt

You can also display a short excerpt from the custom pages sans HTML codes (max. 128 chars).

Images

Place thumbnail captions

Display the thumbnail captions on the index page as tooltip (display only on mouse over) or fixed below.

Caption template

The caption to be displayed along with the image thumbnails. Can contain HTML code and jAlbum variables.

Use plain text or HTML (standard: HTML5).
Here is the full list of Jalbum variables you can use here. Format: ${variableName}

Footer

Show image count

Display the number of images in the current folder and subfolders in total.

Show bottom navigation

Show a top level-only navigation bar in the footer.

Custom link

You can have a custom link at the bottom of the splash page. Put the link in the URL box, e.g. “http://mysite.com/” or if you want a mail link: “mailto:me@mail.com”. Use the Link text box to specify the text to display with the above link, e.g. “Visit my site” or “Email”.

Show “Help” link

You can skip the help link from the footer if you deselect this option. Your visitors can still use the F1 key to get to the help.

Custom content

You can add a custom content to the footer area, just above the bottom links. Use simple or formatted text here, or even HTML code. Make sure to turn off Preformat texts on pages, album info and footer on the Advanced panel. You can also control if this info should be added to only the top level album page or to all pages with the Top level only box. See the preformat options above in the Header section.

Images

Transition

Cross image transition type and speed (in milliseconds). Cross fade, Cross fade + Zoom and None is available. Use Cross fade for better viewing experience on less capable devices or use None if you want to avoid all transitions.

Speed

The length of the transition in milliseconds (1000 = 1 second)

Slideshow delay

The time interval beetween each image used in slideshow mode.

Loop

Do you want the slideshow and navigation return to the first image without warning the visitor after moving beyond the last image?

Auto-start

Select this if you want the slideshow automatically start on pages with no subfolders. If there are folders, the automatic slideshow will not start automatically to allow visitors navigate into the subfolders.

Go full screen

When the slideshow is initiated (by the user or by the auto-start option) the browser will go into Full-screen mode. This feature is not supported by IE 8 and below. After returning to the index page the browser will go back to normal “windowed” mode.

After the last image

The visitor can decide on where to go next: Do nothing | Start over | Up one level | Back to index page | Ask

Fit images to browser

Do you want the images resized to fit into the browser at first visit?

Shrink only

Images will not be enlarged beyond their original size (1:1)

Automatic image correction

Automatic Color, Contrast and Levels correction on all images. If you don’t have it already in jAlbum you need to install from here. Read more here.

Watermark

You can add a small watermark at the bottom right corner of each image.

Watermark position, strength and font size

You can control the watermark’s position on the image, its strength (0 = invisible, 100 = full opaque), and font size.

Visibility

Thumbnails visible by default

Do you want the thumbnail panel above the images be visible at first visit?

Reduce thumbs on image page

You can have smaller thumbnails on the image page in the top scroller area, according to the ratio specified here.

Info panel visible by default

Do you want the info panel below the images be visible at first visit?

Open by default: Photo data | Regions | Map | Selling photos

Choose which panels of the info panel to be visible at the first visit.

Show image numbers

Are the current / total image numbers to show on the Info panel?

Caption template

The caption to be displayed on the Info panel. Can contain HTML code and jAlbum variables.

With the visibility options the visitor preferences will take precedence within an hour Please note, when the visitor hides/shows a panel or change the 1:1 / Fit to window view the preference will be saved as a cookie, and this will be applied to other album pages within 1 hour. After that time the above default behavior will be applied again. When you test the local site, the cookie will not be saved in order to see what your visitor will see.

Social

Let the visitors share your album over social sites in email or ‘Like’ them.

Buttons

Facebook’s ‘Like’, Twitter’s Tweet, Google +1, or Tumblr buttons with counters, where available. The visitor need to be signed in to the site to be able post his/her like.

Share on

The sites you can share on your photos:  Facebook,  Twitter,  Digg,  Delicious,  MySpace,  StumbleUpon, Reddit, or via email.

Commenting

Enable Facebook commenting

Turn on to enable Facebook commenting application on the index pages

Facebook App ID

The App ID can be copied from this page. In order you able to use this tool, you need to create a new app on that page + Create new app.

Number of posts to show

By default Facebook shows the 3 most relevant posts only, but visitors can click on the Show more button any time to see more posts. You can control the number posts to be show initially with this setting.

Please note, that Facebook’s share function can’t always fetch the album thumbnails. Make sure to fill in the Advanced / Upload path box before you Make the album. Use the path without and ending slash if you are uploading an album to the folder named same as the album name, or use the full path with ending slash if you are uploading to a differently named folder.

Please note, Facebook does not sort the messages by date, instead it tries to figure out the “importance” of the posts, and puts the most relevant ones on the top.

Photo data

Normally several extra data is attached by the camera (Exif) about the exposure parameters, like ISO vlaue, focal length, lens, etc. You can also attach many data by yourself to pictures using the Iptc or Xmp standards using image toools, or simply by Windows / Properties.

Show regions (Face tags)

You can add face (or area) tagging to photos in Picasa or Windows Live Photo Gallery. Make sure to turn on Tools / Options / Name tags / Store name tags in photo in Picasa before you start tagging the photos, otherwise they will not be saved into the pictures. If you have concerns about Picasa writing back Xmp tags to your originals, please make a backup first, or do it on duplicates. You can control which folders to use in Tools / Folder manager.

Show photo data

Global switch if to show the embedded Exif, Xmp or Iptc data in photos

Metadata to display

The metadata labels to look for. Separate them by commas ‘,’. If you need only one value from similar fields use the pipe symbol ‘|’ to group them. The first found value will be displayed.

Show with label

Show only the value, or show along with its label. E.g. 17-55mm or Lens:17-55mm

Here is the original setting in case you need to restore:photographer|artist|Artist|Owner|Copyright|Iptc.By-line|Iptc.Copyright Notice, Xmp.Creator, Xmp.Title, objectName, Xmp.Subject, Xmp.Description, Iptc.keywords, Xmp.Format, Xmp.Rights, Xmp.Identifier, Xmp.Label, Country/Primary Location, Province/State, City, Sub-location, originalDate|Date/Time Original|Date/Time|CreateDate|ModifyDate, camera|Model, lens|Lens|Xmp.Lens-Information|Canon Makernote.Unknown tag (0×0095), focalLength35mm|focusDistance|Focal Length|Focallength, SubjectDistance, meteringMode|Metering Mode, isoEquivalent|ISO Speed Ratings, exposureTime|Exposure Time|Shutter Speed Value|ShutterSpeedValue, Aperture Value|aperture|F-Number|FNumber|Aperturevalue, Exposure Bias Value, Exposure Program|Exposureprogram|Exposure Mode, Xmp.SceneType, White Balance|WhiteBalance, Xmp.ColorSpace, Xmp.LightSource, flash|Flash, resolutionCopy and paste back to Jalbum.

Map

In Turtle you have two options to attach GPS location to pictures. You can add the coordinates the traditional way using some GeoTagging application, like Picasa, or simply add the coordinates within Jalbum.

Show map if GPS coordinates found

Show a Google Maps map with each photo holding GPS data.

All photos

All placemarks will placed on map, with the current one highlighted. You can also click through the placemarks to see the other photos.

Initial view

You can choose: Road map, Satellite, Hybrid and Terrain

Initial zoom

Zoom level: 0=Earth view … 20=highest zoom (dafault=18)

Geotagging with the skin

In Turtle you can attach GPS coordinates to your photos.

Location (lat, lon)

You can add a coordinate to any picture by using the Image Data -> Location box in the bottom right corner (Edit mode). Use Google maps GPS format: 00.0000, 00.00000. Eastern and Southern coordinates should be preceeded with ‘-’ sign.

Find the exact coordinates in Google Maps then click the “Link icon” and find the coordinates in the link, &ll=0.123456,-9.87654. Copy only the numbers (separated by a comma) to the location box.

Please note, the coordinates will not be saved to the photo, they will be available only in the current album.

Selling photos

Shopping Cart

Add a smart shopping cart to your pages

Global switch for the shopping cart integration. Please note, that this feature works only if you have a Premium or Power account or have a PRO license.

Gateway

The payment processor site. You can currently use Paypal or Google Checkout.

Seller ID

Your Paypal ID (your email used with PP) or Google Checkout seller ID (14 digits). You need to sign up with the payment site first. Please note, that due to a jAlbum anomaly you need to add your Google ID with a ‘=’ or ‘*’ as first character.

Currency

Choose the currency, or give the 3 letter currency code if not found in the list.

Overall handling

An overall handling fee added only once per finished cart. You can use this as Package and Posting fee.

Quantity cap

If you want to limit the number of items can be bought by a customer put a number here. (0 or empty = unlimited) If you put 1 here there will be no quantity box with the shopping cart.

Shopping options

Put the options in separate lines. Use this format: Option name=price+shipping Please never use the currency sign here, as Paypal allows specifying the currency only in the currency field.

Adding individual shopping options to pictures

You can add individual shopping options to pictures at the Image data -> Shop options box in the bottom right corner in Edit mode (see at Maps section). For pictures with no individual data the defaults will be used from the Selling photos panel, see above.

Fotomoto

Fotomoto is a web application by which you can sell Prints, Posters, Downloads, and let users send eCards. In order to use their service you need to Sign up with them first.

Use Fotomoto

Turn this on if you want Fotomoto integration added

Seller ID

Your unique store ID – copy it from your Fotomoto Settings page.

Audio and video

Auto start videos

Shall the videos start automatically, or only after clicking the play button.

Video size

The pixel dimensions of the videos. You can specify the video sizes individually (if they are different) in the Edit Mode -> Image data -> Video size box.

Auto start music

Shall the audio files in the album start automatically?

Background music

Add background music to your albums. If you want the music scaled for web use, prease trasncode the MP3 file first to e.g. 96 kbit/s, joint stereo. This can reduce the music file size (and load time) the fourth of the original size.

Use album audio files as background music

If you select this option all audio files will be used as background music, and will be taken out of the normal album files.

Auto-start

Would like the background music start automatically upon page load?

Loop

Shall the background music start over after the last song?

Advanced

Enable mouse wheel navigation

You might want to disable if the album will be embedded in another page to avoid conflicts. In Turtle the mouse wheel action is rendered to previous / next image, but this can be annoying if you just want to scroll the outer page.

Enable keyboard navigation

You might want to disable the keyboard if the album is embedded into another page.

Right click protect

Disables the right-click action on the images (only).

Preformat texts on pages, album info and footer

Apply formatting (*bold*, +italic+, _underline_, etc.) to texts or leave the content untouched. Turn this box off if you wish to use HTML or Javascript content in these boxes.

Copy folder thumbnails to current level

With this setting on Turtle will copy all the folder thumbnails to the current level’s “thumbs” folder. This is useful when you want to password-protect your sub-albums. Without this setting the visitor would be asked for the password even on the upper level page. Please note, when building the album from fresh, you might end up in broken thumbnails – please press “Make” again to let Turtle copy the appropriate thumbnails.

Add ALT tags for search engines

Being Turtle a dynamic skin, that is swapping the images only on user request, search engines can only find your images if the thumbnails hold all the information attached to a specific image a static way – using the so-called “ALT” tag which is the text representation of an image in the HTML standard

Google Site ID

Entering your site id here the album will contain the code necessary for Google Analytics, to track traffic on the page. Acquire the ID here.

Upload Path

Leave empty if you upload your album to jalbum.net. If you upload to your own site you need to set this path in order some social sites can pick up the album thumbnail. You can leave this field empty if you are uploading to your site root. If you are using as folder name something other than the album name, just add a slash character at the end ‘/’, e.g. ‘albums/album1/’. If you are using the default folder name jalbum offers, e.g. ‘My%20album’ you only need to specify here the parent folder’s path, e.g. ‘albums’.

Debug mode

Turtle starts in debug mode, so all javascript code can be debugged. Useful if you have a javascript error, and want to debug / report it.

Variables

Variables to report on jAlbum’s System Console (F7). You can leave empty.

Code to add

You can attach any valid HTML code to the end of the HEAD and/or the BODY section. This is useful for adding external libraries, e.g StatCounter code. You can also add custom styles in the CSS box, that will be appended at the end of the style sheet, so you can easily hack the default styles.

Rendering custom content to a picture

You can add almost any content to an album with this feature. Just add a picture to jAlbum to represent the custom content, then go to Edit mode and find the External panel in the bottom right corner.

Add a YouTube video embedded in an iframe, add a link to an external site, or simply copy/paste some HTML code here.

Box size

Specify the box size for the content here. If you are using an iframe, object or embed tag here, the skin will read its width and height, so you can safely leave this box empty.

Base Font families

These fonts come from the visitor’s PC. If the browser can’t find the designated font, it will try to find a similar (the next in the “font stack”). Some 27 fonts are available as global (base) fonts. This font selection will be valid for the whole album, that is for every text. (Besides the headline, see later). Therefore it is essential to use a font that’s available on the visitor’s PC, in order the page loaded as quickly as can. Here is the list:

Arial

Baskerville

Calibri

Cambria

Century Gothic

Comic Sans

Consolas

Constantia

Copperplate

Courier New

Franklin Gothic

Futura

Garamond

Geneva

Gill Sans

Goudy Old Style

Helvetica Neue

Hoefler Text

Impact

Lucida Bright

Lucida Sans

Palatino

Segoe

Tahoma

Times

Trebuchet MS

Verdana

Headline font

For the headline (page title) you can choose to keep with the base font or use another one. You can even use web fonts that come from Google Web Fonts. These fonts are open source so you can use them in any project: private or commercial. Please note, using a web font can make the page load a bit slower. Also these fonts are not available on Internet Explorer 7 and 8 (will fall back to the base font). Internet Explorer 9 will not display web fonts in local view due to security restrictions, but will be fine when uploaded. Here are the fonts you can use (above the base fonts):

Abril Fatface

Alex Brush

Amaranth

Amatic SC

Cantata One

Cookie

Dancing Script

Dosis

Dynalight

Emilys Candy

Euphoria Script

Fridericka the Great

Geo

Germania One

Great Vibes

Gruppo

IM Fell English

Indie Flower

La Belle Aurore

Lobster

Loved by the King

Maiden Orange

Mountains of Christmas

Oswald

Poiret One

Princess Sofia

PT Mono

Shadows Into Light

Special Elite

Raleway

Rochester

Squada One

Ubuntu Condensed

Yanone Kaffeesatz

Chameleon 4.6.6 Jan 3, 2012 Chameleon_v466F.jaskin

Fixed

• Compatibility problems with jAlbum 10.3

Chameleon 4.6.5 Sep 23, 2011 Chameleon_v465F.jaskin

Fixed

• A character encoding bug (degree sign) which affected both the User interface GPS data format select box, and the ability to display Maps correctly in the album.

Chameleon 4.6.4 Sep 20, 2011 Chameleon_v464F.jaskin

Fixed

• Guestbook did not work
• Removed incorrect version warning

Chameleon 4.6.3 Oct 28, 2010 Chameleon_v463F.jaskin

Fixed

• Left and right arrow keys didn’t work in Safari
• Credit links now open in a new window (i.e. not leaving the current album)
• Version number is fixed to avoid continuous skin update notifications
• Sorry for those who have downloaded before 11.05. – the version uploaded was the bundle version which has less styles. Install again to fix.

Chameleon 4.6.2 Mar 18, 2010 Chameleon_v462F.jaskin

Fixed

• Exception when trying to get the 35mm focal length equivalent with no camera name.
• Guestbook did not initialize properly, remained black in some cases.

Chameleon 4.6.1 Mar 12, 2010 Chameleon_v461F.jaskin

Fixed

• Fixing the bug with broken album generation when using pictures holding no Exif data
• Iptc.Sub-location is added as checked Location data. (Works only if Iptc.Location is empty.)

Chameleon 4.6 Mar 11, 2010 Chameleon_v46F.jaskin

Please note, this version requires at least Jalbum 8.7!

New feature

• You can open originals in new window
• Index / Slide page link lists can be both at top and bottom
• Exclude Backlinks Jalbum feature supported for paid accounts
• Handles individually selected include originals
• Better handling of fileTitle
• focalLength35mm Jalbum variable takes precedence over the calculated value
• Nikon Exif Lens value read
• Googlemaps map is centered around the real GPS location, not the nearest interesting place, as Google thinks it should
• Spanish, korean, icelandic translation – renewed french and dutch, thanks for all the translators

Chameleon 4.5.6 Dec 5, 2008 Chameleon_v456F.jaskin

Fixed

• When “Link to originals” or “Link to originals to scaled images” were selected with “Copy originals” turned off you got a broken link on the original page, seeing only the filename.

Changed

• Movie frame size will be adjusted with the player controller size, thus no gap above and below can be seen.
• In version v4.54 and 4.55 of Chameleon you needed to turn “Include originals” on if you wanted to have a link to originals with “Link to originals”or “Link to originals to scaled images” linking scheme. Now Chameleon adds the links on the slide pages even for images with “Include original” unselected. Now “Include original” is important only in “Link to scaled-down images only” linking scheme.

Chameleon 4.5.5 Dec 4, 2008 Chameleon_v455F.jaskin

in version 4.5.4:

Fixed

• Movie playback blocked in 4.54 is fixed
• If you downloaded 4.5.4 before or you have received it with Jalbum 8.1 before 2008-12-05 this update is highly suggested.

Chameleon version 4.5.4:

New feature

• New “Jump to picture top” option to scroll down every slide page to the top of the main picture when you browse through the album. Practical when you in need of more vertical space.
• Added support for Jalbum’s new picture by picture “Include original” feature.

Changed

• The original image will open in the same window and not in a popup as previously did.

Chameleon 4.5.4 Dec 3, 2008 Chameleon_v454F.jaskin

New feature

• New “Jump to picture top” option to scroll down every slide page to the top of the main picture when you browse through the album. Practical when you in need of more vertical space.
• Added support for Jalbum’s new picture by picture “Include original” feature.

Changed

• The original image will open in the same window and not in a popup as previously did.
• Note: Chameleon version 4.54 had a bug with originalImage button which was bundled in Jalbum8.1 and you downloaded before 2008-12-03 13:00. Download this (Full) version to fix that bug.

Chameleon 4.5.3 Sep 8, 2008 Chameleon_v453F.jaskin

New feature

• New option to control the depth of blog style layout – instead of the old ‘Only at top’ option.

Fixed

• Failing to genarate Custom Paypal shopping cart bug (with missing email and shopping option fields on User Interface) has been fixed.

Updated

• Jalbum widget support has changed since 08/09/2008. In order to run the keyboard navigation of Chameleon and Commenting widget on the same album you need to upgrade your albums with this skin version, otherwise these two will interfere.

Chameleon 4.5.2 Aug 21, 2008 Chameleon_v452F.jaskin

• Service release
• Bugfix: Scripting error with ‘enableMousewheel’ fixed
• Updated: Swedish and Danish tranlations

Chameleon 4.5.1 Aug 19, 2008 Chameleon_v451F.jaskin

New feature

• The breadcrumb trail can be aligned left, right or center.

Fixed

• URLencoding for link to originals in image navigation was missing when ‘URL-encode links’ was selected, now added
• Guestbook Flash invoked with wmode=”opaque” – which is the correct way – has a bug in handling international keyboard layouts. Now the wmode parameter has been removed.
• Guestbook has a PHP error when the email notification was turned on, now fixed

Changed

• The mousewheel navigation is OFF by default

Chameleon 4.5.0 Jul 18, 2008 Chameleon_v450F.jaskin

New feature

• Mouse wheel navigation on slide pages.
• XMP fields added
• Metadata scouting feature
• The new File Title field added
• Zoom in / Zoom out feature on the originals page.
• Lithuaninan translation added thanks to Thomas Sakalauskas
• New style Aqua added with 6 additional substyles
• Enable / disable control for keyboard and mouse wheel navigation

Fixed

• The movie background color taken from the base style when using a substyle bug fixed
• Focus 35mm equivalent did not appear using some camera types bug fixed
• On some browsers (like Safari) Chameleon could not figure out the background and text color for guestbook at the time the page was loaded, so they displayed the guestbook with black letters on black background. Now guestbook is using white letters in this case.
• Chameleon’s Keyboard navigation took over the control when using the Widgets bug is fixed.
• The underscores are correctly replaced with spaces in Folder names.

Chameleon 4.4.1 May 7, 2008 Chameleon_441F.jaskin

New feature

• Guestbook updated to version 2.2
• ‘Add comment’ graphics has changed (to a pencil) to make it more hintful
• Guestbook will use the time and date format used in Jalbum. You can set up it here: Settings / Advanced / Date format. If none specified MM/dd/yy HH:mm will be used by default.
• Added Entries per page setting for the guestbook.
• Guestbook can be included on pages either on top or bottom position.
• Paypal can be positioned above or below the main content too.
• Custom Paypal has been improved a lot and you don’t need to modify index.htt and slide.htt anymore

Fixed

• Paypal ordering had problems (UTF-encoded Item name) when the folder or filename contained characters not in Western character set.
• Custom paypal ordering didn’t add the handling fee.
• another FLV movie bug fixed – this time the movies from the top level folder were corrupted.
• Bugfix in 4.41:
• A bug causing JavaScripts error on the index page has been fixed
• FLV player “Buffering” text is removed for it was still on the video after started playing.
• Please note, that from this version on, there will be 2 versions of Chameleon:
• Full version which contains all the styles and sub-styles – here you will find the full version.
• Bundle version which contains 22 styles – which comes with Jalbum installation.
• (This was necessary to keep Jalbum download size small.)

Chameleon 4.3.2 Feb 24, 2008 Chameleon_v432.zip

New feature

• Starting slideshow from the index page
• Soft: Beige, Green, Red, Yellow substyles
• Added custom paypal shopping solution (includes/paypal_c.inc)

Fixed

• GPS coordinates got corrected in JAlbum required a small correction in Chameleon too
• Guestbook did not work in certain circumstances from subfolders.
• Filtering of linebreaks in titles (the small labels popup on mouse over)
• Restored CarStereo style – it was not working in the previous version due to a typo
• Added Snake style back to bundle
• Guestbook notification now works if the default page extension has changed to something else than html.

Chameleon 4.3.1 Dec 3, 2007 Chameleon_v431.zip

Version 4.31

New feature

• New features (4.31):
• Terrain Google map style added

Fixed

• Bugfix (4.31):
• FLV movies did not play when placed in a subfolder bug fixed
• Title tags corrected (the small labels when you move the mouse over an image or button). They did not show up corretly in Internet Explorer.

Version 4.30

New feature

• Blog-style layout index page.
• Automatic Image enlargement to fill in the visitors window
• alt and title tags are added in every important place to meet the standards
• Header / Footer can be managed from the User Interface too
• Added User Interface icons
• 3 new styles (Christmas, Lack, Soft) and 1 new subtyle (Lack White)
• Lens Exif field is added (Works with Canon cameras)
• Product links can be either Text and Button
• Shipping cost has been added to Paypal shopping options
• Handling fee and Cartwise handling fee option added
• An additional Select box is added to selling options
• Quantity box added as well
• Guestbook is updated to version 2.1.
• You can remove the labels from the metadata fields
• Custom path separator in the header

Fixed

• Some incompatibility with JAlbum’s and Chameleon’s Printing service feature is fixed
• No posts get lost in the guestbook when visitors post concurrently.
• Email notification works
• JAlbum hangs when ‘<’ used without ‘>’ or ‘[' placed near the end of comment string bug fixed.
• Broken link to CSS file in the help.html is fixed
• Horizontal gaps between thumbnails upons loading the index page is fixed.

Chameleon 4.2.3 Aug 2, 2007 Chameleon_v423.zip

• Fixed several issues with Guestbook. E.g. guestbook did not run on Internet Explorer. If you've downloaded v4.22 you might want to download this version.

Chameleon 4.2.1 Jul 31, 2007 Chameleon_v421.zip

(service release)

New feature

• Added controls for Guestbook highlight color
• and font size

Fixed

• Guestbook previously had problems with non-english keyboard layouts, fixed
• Czech translation went wrong in the previous version, fixed
• HTML page search keywords were not filtered for the required language in multilingual albums, fixed
• Guestbook was showing "1. [] null” on certain servers when no entries were added yet, fixed
• (The old guest book left in the version uploaded as v421 before 12:00PM CET 30/07/2007 – 6 downloads – please, download again!)

Chameleon 4.2.0 Jul 24, 2007 Chameleon_v420.zip

New feature

• XHTML 1.0 Transitional pages generated. Browsers will support this standard for a longer time, and you can integrate the gallery into Content Management Systems more easily.
• Improved Guestbook with optional rating, custom size, ordering, Email notification
• Selling Photos via Paypal feature
• Download icon now can be turned off if not needed

Fixed

• Google Maps link did not work on systems (or Java versions) using comma ‘,’ instead of dot ‘.’ as decimal sign, like French, German, etc.
• The uplink was not compatible with MyJalbum’s main gallery address. Fixed.
• The Numbered linklist got unlimited when the number of rows set to ’0′ (unlimited rows). Fixed.

Chameleon 4.1.1 May 15, 2007 Chameleon_v411.zip

New feature

• GPS position formatting
• Link to map parameters added (Map type, Zoom level, Open in new window)

Fixed

• Guestbook was not working on certain PHP configurations (5.05, 5.22). Fixed.
• “NEW” indicator reported incorrectly on virtual folders. Fixed.
• Sound attachments cannot be found in virtual folders problem solved.

Chameleon 4.1.0 May 7, 2007 Chameleon_v410.zip

• Support for multilingual albums
• GPS data processing
• Link to map feature with both GPS data and Iptc location fields
• 35 mm focus equivalent computing (thanks to BluePlusPlus team for the lens data file)
• Comment now can be attached to enhanced pictures too
• Automatic maximize browser window feature
• Uplink title can be specified in order to display it in the clickable path (Useful for multi-level albums.)
• Thumblist on the slide page can be positioned left or rigth too, relative to the main picture
• Copyright info on slide pages can be turned off
• File chooser has been added to the Logo filter (you don’t have to manually add the filename)
• You can have Guestbook only on the main index page
• Updated serbian translation by Goran Milovanovic, russian by Mike Sazonov

Fixed

• FixedShape filter bug (when used with Large thumbnails for folders) is fixed
• Folder with no description inherits the parent’s description bug is fixed
• Chameleon will detect and use the folders thumbnails even if their name contain extended (accented) characters â?? previously those files were copied with a wrong filename.
• No unnecessary uplink button is generated when no index.html exists in the parent folder and “Uplink” is set to “default”

Chameleon 4.0.3 Feb 8, 2007 Chameleon_v403.zip

• New feature: You can disable the folder name under the thumbnail. New polish translation. Some bugfixes, and corrected help files. See http://lazaworx.com/chameleon/download

Chameleon 4.0.2 Feb 5, 2007 Chameleon_v402.zip

• Browser title missing space fixed. “XHTML / Transitional” compliance. (An annoying popup window with some debugging info has been left in the code when you use enhanced pictures. Please download again if you’ve downloaded this version on 04/02/2007.) Another bug is also corrected regarding the download link to reduced size images (when the icon is above the picture). Sorry!

Chameleon 4.0.1 Feb 4, 2007 Chameleon_v401.zip

• Some bugfixes (see: http://lazaworx.com) and new features: “Force link to empty folders”, “Show thumb title”, Language box with full name, Max. thumb size is 128x128px for Graphic type thumbnails, Using “None” as Slidemount background the folder thumbnails will also show without slidemount, Grayscale effect for Indexpage thumbnails (works only with IE), Complete simplified chinese translation by Marcus Tsang

Chameleon 4.0 Feb 1, 2007 Chameleon_v40.zip

• This version is bundled with JAlbum v7.0 but still compatible with older versions. The most of the code is compiled into Java which yields cca. 3 times quicker rebuild times. New features: Albuminfo inside/apart from table | New Exposure Bias exif field | Exposure Mode for non-Canon cameras | Fixed Folder thumbnails for virtual albums |
• Em-square and Zoom filters for closeups | New style: White with 5 sub-styles |
• Redesigned User interface to fit with JAlbum v7 better | The Folder thumbnails are copied to the current level’s “thumbs” folder forthe sake of password-protected sub-albums | The “This” type enhanced pictures are resized and applied all the filters the closeups have | Complete, redesigned help | Sub-styles: the original styles’ color variations | Added substyles for Aluminium, Black, Carstereo, Device, White styles | Configurable field-separator string | You can choose the album’s base text type and size | Color input can be hexadecimal | Thumblist can be on both sides | Guestbook on the indexpages | Re-designed sleeker guestbook. | Chinese translation | Updated Danish, Dutch, German, Finnish, Czech, Ukrainian, French translations.

Chameleon 3.42 Oct 10, 2006

• Guestbook / Movie can play in original size / XP comment fields added / More Iptc fields / Custom links can be relative / Metedata fields are added to page keywords for search engines / For complete list refer to help file.

Chameleon 3.40 Sep 11, 2006

• 4 new styles: Chrome, Glass, Oldbook, Wedding / Improved performance / Thumbnail spacing, border, background style, text rendering is configurable / Automatic start of movies can be switched off / Media embedding has been totally redesigned. / New Exif field: White balance / A wide range of IPTC fileds added

Chameleon 3.32 Aug 6, 2006

• The NEW label now means the file is new at the time of viewing. / Custom color scrollbars / Download icon in color / Print ordering now works from the index page / the Custom Links opening can be controlled separately.

Chameleon 3.31 Aug 2, 2006

• A small bug is fixed regarding the display of Exif ISO setting even if switched off. Updated danish translation by Jacob a.k.a craps.

Chameleon 3.30 Aug 1, 2006

• Voice annotations / ISO setting bug with Canon EOS machines is fixed / Album Total images and Last Updated field appears only on the root index page / Two Custom links can be added.

Chameleon 3.23 Jul 28, 2006

• v3.22 Had some nasty bugs related to tables, now this is fixed. (I hope so.) / No linklist nor thumblist is generated when only one page exists / The default row-count is set to 0, i.e. continuous view / From v3.22: The Album info, JAlbum Copyright and Help grouped into one box to spare with vertical space. / “Help” text instead of help icon.

Chameleon 3.21 Jul 27, 2006

• Version 3.20 had a minor bug – the default Black style had gray background by mistake. New: Flash Video playing added, thanks to Jeroen Wijering.

Chameleon 3.11 Jul 16, 2006

• Service release. Unnecessary border around folders in Large thumbs mode has been removed. Exception caused by extensionless files is eliminated.

Chameleon 3.10 Jul 14, 2006

• The real 3.10!!! New Border and Logo filter + lots of esthetic changes, and bugfixes. Slovenian translation by Igor Trcek.

Chameleon 3.4 Jul 7, 2006

• Version 3.04!!! Slide mounts can be disabled, some bugfixes too.

Chameleon 3.3 May 23, 2006

• “New” sign for modified files/folders. Thanks for oli (france)! / .divx movies / Windows Media Player is now the default player for .avi files / Uderscores are replaced with spaces

Chameleon 3.2 May 19, 2006

• Version 3.02, not 3.2!!! Thumblist is looking a lot better. / Printing service is disabled from local disks. / Some new filetypes supported. / Corrected Czech translation. / Plural form for “images” on folder file count. / Default image size is: 720x540px. Those who’ve already downloaded this version: the only change is the two latter – download only if you need that.

Chameleon 3.1 May 9, 2006

• Service release.

Chameleon 3.0 May 8, 2006

• The new major version has several improvements, like embedded movies, mini thumbnails on slide pages, and user can control what to display and where. Some translations are still misiing.

Chameleon 2.92 Mar 28, 2006

• NEW: Large thumbnails for folders / Reference to footer.inc / Copy protection / Originals open in “extra” slide pages / Option to disable the “Mark of the Web” line / Bigger, nicer icons for other filetypes / Detailed Help

Chameleon 2.91 Mar 7, 2006

• Russian (Mike Sazonov) and Finnish Translation (Ulla Saarinen) / Some bugfixes – see Readme.txt!

Chameleon 2.90 Feb 7, 2006

• Chameleon v2.9 – New features: You can disable the easy navigation on slides / The current page is highlighted in the link-list / See Readme.txt for the complete list!

Chameleon 2.80 Jan 20, 2006

• New feature: Slideshow can loop / New languages: Portugues, Ukrainian translation / Minor bugfixes: “../index.html” instead of “..\index.html” which caused broken link

Chameleon 2.71 Dec 31, 2005

• This version has several bugfixes, plus this version generates valid HTML and CSS pages.

Chameleon 2.60 Nov 11, 2005

• Several bugfixes related to the new features of JAlbum. New features: Mouse navigaton on the slide pictures. Possibility to disable the Date field in the header of slides. WARNING!!! This version is compatible with the forthcoming improved JAlbum version, whatever it is. With v6 it writes out false directory names. I only uploaded this version because now I’m travelling abroad for a longer period.

Chameleon 2.51 Nov 4, 2005

• From this version on Chameleon is compatible with JAlbum v6.0 or later. A bug is fixed related to comments in the slide page header. Some other minor modifications too.

Chameleon 2.50 Oct 28, 2005

• Finally I decided to rename the skin, because it has nothing to do with “OSX” and “dark” anymore. Thanks to David Ekholm for the idea. // 3 new styles: Gold, Silver, OrangeBlue, 1 modified: 3D light // 1 new language: Slovakian Translated by ryzko // The custom Album Name did not work in the past releases – it is now fixed. Some improvements in keyboard handling (though Opera still won’t accept some keys). Resolved disappearing thumbs using Norton Internet Security firewall (hopefully). // !!! Who already downloaded (9 user) this version before 28/10/05 9:30AM, reload it because I found a scripting error which prevents the automatic slideshow starting on the last index page. !!!

Chameleon 2.41 Oct 7, 2005

• The “java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException” bug has been fixed.

Chameleon 2.4 Sep 30, 2005

• 2 new styles. 4 new languages: French, Italian, Spanish, Swedish. No looping in slideshow. The Thumbnail text bug is eliminated. EXIF info enhancements. Etc.

Chameleon 2.3 Sep 9, 2005

• 7 new styles, Deutch language version, you can start slideshow from the index page by pressing ENTER. Please send me your language mutation (see texts folder).

Chameleon 2.2 Aug 31, 2005

• DarkOSX now supports languages. (Now English, Danish and Hungarian.) Translations are welcome. — 6 new themes, Page transition, slideshow mode on index pages, image pre-caching for faster browsing, etc.

Chameleon 2.1 Aug 25, 2005

• A small bug is fixed related to google-like links, which caused a Java runtime error (on the PCs) in certain situations.

Chameleon 2.0 Aug 24, 2005

• This version has so many new features that I’ve decided to leap a major version:
• 6 differents themes: aluminium, aqua_dark, aqua_light, black, grays, steel,
• Google-like jump-list to pages,
• keyboard controls,
• user configurable: album name, album description, custom homepage link, thumbnail label, usage of random folder picture, slideshow delay,
• etc.

Chameleon 1.3 Aug 8, 2005

• New: SlideSow mode (the interval is now 3s, but later I make it configurable). I used Rey Cyril’s code – thanks! Bugfix: hover effect on thumbs is now working with IE for PC too.

Chameleon 1.2 Aug 5, 2005

• New: Folder icon with content displayed on it (if there is any) / Bugfix: Filename is displayed (instead of “$comment”) when mouse is over a thumb without comment / Modified: Movie icon

Chameleon 1.1 Aug 4, 2005

• New: rollover-effect for navigation buttons.
• Bugfix: No Mac’s “.DS_Store” hidden files in ZIP.
• Bugfix: On slides there is no empty box if no EXIF info.
• Change: Quality set to 90% by default.

Chameleon 1.0 Jul 25, 2005

• Finally the site is on again!
• Bugfix: Fixed the header misfit with IE for PC. (I tested it on Mac/Safari originally, but IE has some misty bugs.) ( Use Mac!
• Bugfix: The clickable path is working with slides too.
• New: EXIF info below slides.
• New: Page numbers, etc., etc.

Creating the album

First collect the photos (of the products) you want to sell, and create a new album in the jAlbum application.

• Add the photos by the Add button or by dragging them onto jAlbum
• Choose Turtle skin
• Add an image to be used as “Theme image” on the index page. Right-click → Use as folder thumbnail, and Right-click → Exclude
• Switch to Edit mode (Pencil icon) and add captions to your items with the details of the product (you can use HTML code too in the captions)

Setting up the shopping cart

In order to use either Paypal or Google Checkout as payment gateway you need to be signed up with them. Here are the links to sign up with Paypal or Google Checkout. With Google Checkout you can usually use your Google Account if exists. For receiving more then just one or two payments a year you need to have a Merchant Account. Please read the provider’s documentation first about the conditions.

• Make sure you are signed in with jAlbum. If you are not, there will be a button on left top of the window with “Sign in”. If you’ve singed in after you’ve opened the album you might need to re-open the album by clicking the “Empty project” and back to the actual again.
• Go to Settings window, and switch to Selling photos
• Check the Add a smart shopping cart to your photos
• Choose your preferred payment processor: Paypal or Google Checkout
• Add your Seller ID: the email you are using with paypal or the long Merchant ID string.
• Specify the currency you want to receive payments in. You can use only one currency in a shopping cart!
• Add Overall handling if applies. This is an amount will be added only once on top of each finished shopping cart. E.g. a flat package and posting fee.
• Add your default Shop options in the following syntax: Shop option name=Price, e.g. 10x15" Print=1.00. Please note, you must not use the currency sign here!
• If you want to add a shipping fee on top of each item you can use the following syntax: Shop option name=Price+Shipping, e.g. A1 poster=50+10 – this means the price for the poster is $50, and will be added $10 on top of each as shipping cost.
• You can add as many options as you wish – each in a new line –, and naturally you can combine the ones with and without shipping fee

Setting up individual shopping options for the pictures

If your items have different prices or you want different options attached to them, no problem, you can specify individual shop options in Edit mode. Click the Pencil icon on the top right, and open the Image data tab near the bottom right. There you can specify the shop option you want for the actual picture only. The syntax is the same as with the global options, see above. If you want to use the default option just leave this box empty. If you don’t want the shopping cart added to a specific picture just add a minus sign here.

Final touches

Before you release the album to the public you might want to tweak the album here or there. Here are some of my suggestions for albums made for selling.

• Set the shopping cart as visible by default: Settings / Turtle / General / Info panel visible by default and Selling photos
• Add Terms and Conditions as Album info Settings / Turtle / Header / Album info window or as a separate page.
• You also might want to add social plugins to your shop on the Settings / Turtle / Sharing page

Now it’s time to see what we’ve done. Hit Make and when that’s finished hit Preview or press F12. You can now check if the shopping works, but do not go to checkout unless you have a sandbox account with Paypal.

The shopping process

• Your visitor will see the shopping cart by default
• He / she can choose the shop option and specify the quantity. The total amount will be displayed next to it.
• The Add to cart button places the item in the shopping cart and a popup window will come up with the items already placed in the cart
• The View Cart button is there to check the shopping cart content without placing a new item in it
• This is how Paypal’s shopping cart looks like. You can remove items, change quantities here, and when you are ready you can go to check out and pay either from a Paypal account or by a Credit card. See right.
• When the payment has completed you will receive a notification in email with the list of sold products each with folder and file name, the shop option chosen and the quantity

Now it’s your turn to fulfil the order

Failing to do so will result in a “dispute” opened by the customer, and if there’s no agreement within 3 weeks, Paypal will get back the money from the seller, and devalue its “reputation”, which easily lead to a locked seller account, with locked money too.