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General Notes about the PBase Skin
This skin is based on the web galleries hosted at PBase.

This version includes a sample of styles, as based on those available
to PBase members, and are named: alexc; athiker95; blackstandard; joshua;
karen1109; tarheel; timmyg; webdev; wedding; and whitestandard.
Customizing
- Image Sizes
- The default slide image size was set to 600x400 for test, and thumbnails
were also set to 120x120. There's no reason why you can't set these
to whatever's suitable.
- User Interface Settings
- A user can set the following values via the user interface panel.
These values then become the default settings until replaced by values
in 'props' files.
- If you save a jAlbum project file, these values are also saved.
- meta.properties
- This skin makes good use of the meta.properties file. This
is a text file with the following format.
title=descriptive title of gallery
- description=fuller
description of the contents
- iconFolder=image
to be used for gallery
keywords=list of keywords, separated by commas
A
title for the gallery will appear on the top of each index page
and under any thumbnail/folder image for a sub-folder. The description
will appear above the first set of navigation links. The iconFolder
picks which image (which must be in the gallery directory) to use to
represent that gallery in the parent index page, and defaults
to folder.gif if left blank (a "blank" copy of this
graphic is included in the /res folder for modification). The keywords
value replaces that entered for the album on the user interface panel
and is used by search engines.
- Image Properties Files
- Each image can also have several definitions using general 'properties'
files. See Using Properties Files for details.
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- Extended Comments
- If you have a matching comments file (e.g. newbychurch.txt
for newbychurch.jpg) in a original image directory, any text
in that file will be added as an extended comment.
History
- January 2004
- Version 2.0 released
+ properties files
support for labels, comments and keywords + html METATAGS added +
some reformatting in positioning of comments and EXIF data
- August 2003
- Version 1 released
basic conversion of
styles used at PBase site.
Credits
- Original Theme & Images
- PBase
- jAlbum Program
- David Ekholm
- Conversion
- Laura Seabrook
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