Posted by Terry Pinnell on 03/10/06 17:41

David Segall <david@nowhere.net> wrote:

>Terry Pinnell <terrypinDELETE@THESEdial.pipex.com> wrote:
>
>>But what other approaches would others recommend please? IOW, what are
>>better methods of allowing the photos to be displayed at that larger
>>size, complete with captions?
>Have a look at JAlbum <http://jalbum.net/>. Its output is HTML and it
>provides templates and CSS that you can change to produce almost any
>format you like.

JAlbum is just great - so pleased you and others recommended it, thank
you.

I'm trying the BluBlu Plus skin which I reckon will be excellent for
my needs.

However, I've been struggling with a LINKS issue for hours now, and
would greatly appreciate a bit of help please, from anyone who knows
JAlbum.

In brief, it's clearly something to do with this message, on choosing
my preferred option of 'Link to originals'.
"The created album will contain links to original files outside the
output directory!
If you are uploading the album to a web server, make sure you also
upload the original files and not just the output directory..."

But just *where* do I have to place these original images? I reckon
I've tried just about everywhere. Yet if I go here
http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/terrypin/Walks/
I see the main page, but don't get any large pictures displayed.

For example, here is the status of my folder structure on my Pipex
Dialspace server at present (viewing it with CuteFTP):

/Walks
/images03 <--- Copy of my original image folder, latest try!
/res <--- Created by JA
/slides <--- Created by JA
/thumbs <--- Created by JA
/TP03 <--- This contains the originals, i.e /Walks/TP03/images03
/TP04 <--- My own Thames Path 2004 folder
/TP05 <--- My own Thames Path 2005 folder
index.htm <--- Created by JA

As you see, I followed up the Publish procedure in JAlbum by copying
the images03 folder from my HD to the server under the Walks folder.
That doesn't work. Nor if I put it in the slides folder. Or individual
images in either. Yet it works fine when I View Album in JAlbum.

I also have a mental block about why this manual intervention is
necessary anyway? As I've specified the image folder to JAlbum, why
can it not automate all of this?

FWIW, these are the settings I made in JA:
Main tab
--------
Image directory D:\Docs\Website Design\Home\Walks\TP03\images03
Output directory D:\Docs\Website Design\Home\Walks\TP03-JAlbum

FTP connection properties
---------------------------
FTP server dsftp.dial.pipex.comn
Web directory [Left this blank **]
Remote directory Walks ***

** The pop-up help for this box says
"Directory under FTP directory that is web published (leave blank if
same directory)"
Don't really grasp that, so left it blank for now.

*** "Directory for album on remote server"

Also, I sometimes appear to be inadvertently triggering a slide show
(or it would be, if the photos were displayed), with continual
skipping to subsequent pages.

I'll press on, but basically I'm now baffled. Trial and error is not
the way to do this!

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