![]() When you want to add new albums, you have to repeat the steps in Section 2., add the new folder to the master project (see Section 3.) and regenerate the master album. Hit the ‘ Make Album‘ button, and check the result with ‘View album’.This way JAlbum will not process the ready made sub-albums. Turn off the ‘ Process subdirectories‘ option in Settings / Advanced / General tab.180x180px (Settings / Images / Thumbnails). You can use even bigger thumbnails than the usual 120x120px, e.g. If you want bigger folder thumbnails select ‘Large thumbnails for folders’ in Settings / Chameleon Thumbnails tab.Add comments to folders if needed, sort the Master Album by ‘Reverse date’ to get the latest in front, or manually as you like.Not those you’ve created under ‘My Site’! Add the previously created sub-albums by drag and dropping the folder names under ‘My Albums’ on the right pane.‘Family Album’ (under ‘My Albums’ - this is the default) Do this with all the Albums you want to add. ![]() Generate the Gallery with the ‘Make Album’ button.In Chameleon choose the ‘ Uplink from main page‘ as ‘This’ or ‘Default’ to make sure your uplink to the Master page works.In Chameleon you can also choose the sub-style which a slight modification of the original theme. Choose the skin and style for this album.Choose a folder thumbnail by right clicking the desired picture and choosing ‘Use as folder thumbnail’.You can also move the thumbnails around in a custom order. Sort images by ‘Camera date’ (Right-click + Sort + Camera date) or any other order if you want.‘Family Album’) and leave the link as “./index.html” or whatever. Choose “This”, type its name in the “Name” box (e.g. Specify the link to the master album (Settings / Chameleon / General / Uplink).Here you can add comment for this gallery too. Add a meaningful name to the gallery by right-clicking the album name and choosing Properties.But you can add the whole folder (the green ‘+’ sign) and exclude the unwanted pictures in JAlbum. I prefer the drag and drop method, because in the file manager I can see the thumbnails. My Documents/My Sites/FamilyAlbum/20051017_London). Use the exact same name as for Album name. Set the output folder to point to the subfolder of FamilyAlbum (Setting / General).Use only english letters ‘A.Z’, ‘a.z’, numbers ‘0.9’ and underscores ‘_’. Make sure this name doesn’t contain any extended (accented) characters or spaces, because web servers cannot handle extra characters in filenames. In JAlbum create a ‘ New Album‘ with a name that is web-safe, like 20051017_London.‘ My Sites‘ under ‘My Documents’ and inside add the Folder for this site you plan to create, e.g. You will have duplicate ‘guestbook’ folders in each subalbum - need to be managed individually.Ĭreate a folder e.g.When creating the master album JAlbum does not process the sub-albums, thus cannot compute the number of images inside them. ![]() This technique has some drawbacks though: In this case you can handle the sub-albums individually and finally make a master album of all. If you have a large number of albums already added to the site you might not want to rebuild the whole album again each time you add new albums. Maintaining large albums and combining existing ones into one can be a bit more complicated.
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