Posted by David Segall on 09/25/07 12:41

dorayme <doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au> wrote:

>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
I don't know enough to give you a definitive answer but I think you
have hit the "roadblock" I mentioned in my post. I believe that JAlbum
is based around a fairly rigid structure and although I'm sure you can
get the look you want I doubt if you can specify the CSS and HTML that
you want.

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