Put your name inside the templates to have free marketing of your design skills as users create and publish albums with your skin design.Welcome to Mark's jAlbum, my world captured in Photos & Video! If you make something beautiful, send it to me for inclusion into JAlbum. You basically only need HTML (and CSS) skills to create new skins. I hope this example has made it obvious that JAlbum actually allows you to create any imaginable album design. The album with the new first and last buttons Testing the effect of our changes by making an album Click on a thumbnail to get to the slides and voila! If you've done everything right there are now two new navigation buttons, if not, check your code, save and retry. Prepare JAlbum for the images of your choice, select the "standard" skin and press "Make album". This is all explained in the Creating skins section, but please try the new album first, we are almost done. JAlbum has a lot of other variables that you can use and you might wonder what the ![]() ![]() ![]() If you are using DreamWeaver or other graphical HTML building tools, try editing the slide.htt file in them. Locate the section where there is a "Previous button" HTML comment. Tip! Use drag and drop, it's a great time saver. Now start Notepad or similar text editor and open the slide.htt file for editing. Using Paint Shop Pro to design a "last" navigation buttonÄon't want to be creative? Ok here are ready made first and last buttons. Why not also give the navigation buttons a personal touch while you're being creative? Now use the "next.gif" and "previous.gif" files as base to make "first.gif" and "last.gif" images. I use Paint Shop Pro, but you can use any paint program capable of handling gif files like Paint. Open the gifs directory and drag and drop the image files there onto your favourite image editing program. We will need to create two more gif buttons there: first.gif and last.gif, finally we will edit the slide.htt file to have the buttons appear but let's make the new buttons first. The gifs directory contains all graphic elements needed for an album. We are going to concentrate on the gifs directory and slide.htt file. The directory of the "standard" skin opened (If this doesn't work on your computer, open the directory where JAlbum is installed and then open the skins/standard folder) Start by pressing the pen button while having the "standard" skin selected. Here we are going to modify the "standard" skin. ![]() If you have played around a bit with JAlbum you have noticed that it can generate a lot of different album styles or themes. Showing previous and next buttons on the "standard" skin 1. Follow these steps and you will probably realize how easy it is to make other types of modifications too. If you know basic HTML, that's all you need.Īlbums created with JAlbum always have "next" and "previous" buttons to simplify navigation between images, but what if you'd like "first" and "last" buttons too? This tutorial will show you how. Don't be frightened by the coding that will follow. Nothing is actually fixed layout-wise with JAlbum so having UI elements for everything would be impossible or limit your design power. This tutorial will teach how to modify the look and features of generated albums beyond what can be done through the user interface of JAlbum.
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