Posted by dorayme on 09/25/07 03:12

In article <pd5le3ta9i5gdn374e4b4ns80kcnn16142@4ax.com>,
David Segall <david@address.invalid> wrote:

> >> The free, cross platform JAlbum <http://jalbum.net/> probably fits. It
> >> requires some CSS and HTML templates that you can write so there is no
> >> problem making a generated album match the look of your site. A
> >> possible roadblock would be that it is an album generator so having,
> >> say, arbitrary variable information on each page would be difficult.
> >
> >Thanks David, I will take another look, I have downloaded this
> >twice in the past and still have it. I did not look closely at
> >the flexibility of writing one's own templates. Have you actually
> >done this with this program or know anyone who has?
> Yes, I have.

Well, I finally got around to having a play with jAlbum. It is
pretty impressive. I have asked a question about the following on
the jAlbum forums but perhaps I will mention it here to follow up
and also thank you for mentioning this software which works well
on my Mac.

Have been experimenting on the minimal skin. I really would like
to be rid of the table layout (basically for a solid tactical
reason rather than a strategic one, to use the browser window
effectively rather than merely not use tables for layout).

Here is my first experiment:

http://dorayme.myjalbum.net/AustraliaDay/index.html

I have roughly got the hang of altering the html and css for the
actual enlargements ("slides"), but am unsure whether it is
possible to be rid of the tables layout for the index page at the
pre generation level, that is the index.htt file. It looks as if
this might be tricky since the generating code seems wedded to
tables? I favour quite a different sort of layout; a simple model
would be just all images or their containing divs getting a
float: left. Not asking about how to make the html or css,
rather, how to adapt such a thing to this index.htt so that the
indexes are generated automatically. Anyone any ideas besides
hand crafting the index page separately after the album is
generated?

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dorayme

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